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A wooden grain elevator at Kane, on the CNR Miami Subdivision in the Rural Municipality of Morris, was built by the Paterson Grain Company in late 1947, replacing an older elevator destroyed by fire in August 1947. Two annexes built in the 1950s were replaced in 1982 by a new elevator and annex, immediately beside the older elevator. The adjacent railway line was removed in 2007 but the elevator was owned by the company and leased to local farmers for private grain storage.
In 2022, the elevator was sold into private ownership and, as the time of a site visit in late 2024, it was being used to store materials for manufacturing fuel pellets from flax and canola straw mixed with sunflower husks. The pellets are burned in domestic and commercial heating plants.
Period
Agent / Buyer
1919
G. Norwood
1920
W. H. House
1921
D. Brown
1922
Roy Brown
1923-1924
H. Burr
1924-1930
Charles Edward “Charlie” Walsh
1930-1940
Roylance “Roy” de la Wyche
1940-1946
Henry P. Schellenberg
1946-1956
Walter G. Penner
1956-1966
James William “Bill” Bracken (1914-1988)
1966-1995
Irvin J. Wiebe
1995-?
Alvin D. Martens
Aerial view of grain elevators at Kane (1957)
Source: Howdy McPhail Aerial Photographs, University of Saskatchewan
Paterson and United Grain Growers grain elevators at Kane (1960)
Source: Agricore United Engineering Department, Tom Price (Mgr), provided by Glenn Dickson (University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections)
Paterson and United Grain Growers grain elevators at Kane (July 1992)
Source: Historic Resources Branch, Grain Elevator Inventory, slide 2158.
Paterson grain elevator at Kane (January 2001)
Source: Mike Lisowski
Paterson grain elevator at Kane (July 2014)
Source: Jean McManus
Aerial view of the Paterson grain elevator at Kane (November 2016)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Aerial view of the Paterson grain elevator at Kane (September 2020)
Source: George Penner
Paterson grain elevator at Kane (October 2020)
Source: Rose Kuzina
Paterson grain elevator at Kane (July 2023)
Source: Rose Kuzina
The former Paterson grain elevator at Kane (October 2024)
Source: Jean McManus
The former Paterson grain elevator at Kane (October 2024)
Source: Jean McManus
The former coal shed at Paterson grain elevator at Kane (June 2016)
Source: Jean McManus
The former coal shed at Paterson grain elevator at Kane (October 2020)
Source: Rose KuzinaSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.35457, W97.72871
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Canadian Consolidated Grain Elevator / United Grain Growers Grain Elevator (Kane, RM of Morris)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Abandoned Manitoba
Birth registration [Joseph William Bracken], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Deloraine Scans a Century: A History of Deloraine and District, 1880-1980 by Deloraine History Book Committee, 1980, page 360.
Obituary [J. W. Bracken], Winnipeg Free Press, 28 May 1988, page 34.
A History of Grain Elevators in Manitoba by John Everitt, Historic Resources Branch, Manitoba Department of Culture, Heritage and Tourism, circa 1993.
Kane: The Spirit Lives On by Kane History Book Committee, 2000, pages 322-323.
Pellets, Precision Heating Limited.
We thank Ralph Groening, Jean McManus, Mike Lisowski, Rose Kuzina, and Eileen Kent for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 10 November 2024
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