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A 30,000-bushel wooden grain elevator at La Salle, on the CPR La Riviere Subdivision in the Rural Municipality of Macdonald, was built in 1938 by the Paterson Grain Company using materials salvaged from a demolished elevator at Dumas, Saskatchewan. It replaced an earlier elevator built around 1912 by local farmer Moise Cormier and sold to Paterson in 1916. Balloon annexes were built beside the elevator in 1940 and 1955. They were replaced by six steel tanks between 1986 and 1988.
The elevator was demolished in August 2020.
Period
Agent / Buyer
c1912-1917
Moise Cormier (1849-1915)
1917-1924
A. P. Jerry
1925-1926
Raoul O. Rochon (1894-1964)
1926-1950
Louis H. Boucher (1895-1977)
1950-1956
P. Escaravage
1956-1960
C. Neufeld
1960-1976
R. Ritchot
1976-1979
H. Ritchot
1979-present
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Paterson grain elevator at La Salle (June 1992)
Source: Historic Resources Branch, Grain Elevator Inventory, slide 2144.
Paterson grain elevator at La Salle (September 2014)
Source: Jean McManus
Paterson grain elevator at La Salle awaiting demolition (July 2020)
Source: Jean McManus
Paterson grain elevator at La Salle awaiting demolition (July 2020)
Source: Jean McManusSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.69136, W97.26604
denoted by symbol on the map above
1911 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.
Elevator Company Files [Temporary Box #1], Paterson Grain Company, John Everitt Fonds, S. J. McKee Archives, Brandon University.
Hugging the Meridian: Macdonald, a Manitoba Municipal History (1881-1981) by Betty Dyck, Macdonald Municipality, 1981, page 352.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Jean McManus.
Page revised: 10 December 2022
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