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Purchased by Paterson Grain from the Young Grain Company in 1922, a 30,000-bushel wooden elevator operated at this site at Lena, on the CNR Wakopa Subdivision in the Rural Municipality of Turtle Mountain. Closed when the railway line was abandoned in 1961, it was sold to private interests in 1967 and later demolished.
Period
Agent / Buyer
1904-?
Dave Pyper
?-1910
?
1910-1912
William Clements
1912-1922
?
1922-1927
J. Miller
1927-1935
T. S. Croome
1935-1937
L. K. Stewart
1937-1952
W. C. L. Anderson
1952-1954
K. J. McTaggart
1954-1957
W. Wiebe
1957-1961
D. A. Janzen
Paterson grain elevator at Lena with Manitoba Pool grain elevator behind it (1960s)
Source: Archives of Manitoba, Lena Photographs.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.07202, W99.66342
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Manitoba Pool Grain Elevator (Lena, Municipality of Killarney-Turtle Mountain)
Reflections: 1882-1982, A Community History of the Rural Municipality of Turtle Mountain and the Town of Killarney by J. A. Victor David Museum and New Horizons, 1982, page 32.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Nick Janzen.
Page revised: 2 May 2021
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