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A wooden grain elevator in Holland, on the CPR Glenboro Subdivision in the Rural Municipality of Victoria, was built in 1927 by Manitoba Pool Elevators. Its modest 50,000-bushel capacity was enlarged with a squat 75,000-bushel Overgaard annex in 1952 and a taller 85,000-bushel crib annex in 1958. The elevator was completely renovated in 1982 and the Overgaard annex was removed around 1994. It survived the transfer to Agricore in 1998 but closed in 2001 and was demolished in early December 2003.
Period
Agent / Buyer
1927-1946
D. Morfitt
1946-1957
Albert William Higgs (1909-1961)
1957-1960
George F. Atkinson
1960-1974
W. Claire Leslie
1974-1988
Mac A. Hamilton
1988-1998
Robert “Bob” Dalrymple
Aerial view of the grain elevators at Holland (1980s)
Source: S. J. McKee Archives, Brandon University
Manitoba Pool grain elevator at Holland (1963) by Earl Gordon Johnston
Source: Shelley Johnston-Frith
Manitoba Pool grain elevator with crib annex (left) and Overgaard annex (right) at Holland (no date)
Source: Agricore United Engineering Department, Tom Price (Mgr), provided by Glenn Dickson (University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections)
Agricore grain elevator at Holland (no date)
Source: John FriesenSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.59806, W98.88364
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Paterson Grain Elevator (Holland, RM of Victoria)
Manitoba Pool Fonds, S. J. McKee Archives, Brandon University.
“News briefs,” Baldur Gazette, 9 December 2003, page 2.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
We thank Glenn Dickson, John Friesen, and Shelley Johnston-Frith for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 9 October 2022
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