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A 30,000-bushel wooden grain elevator in Moore Park, in what is now the Rural Municipality of Minto-Odanah on the former CPR Varcoe Subdivision, was built in 1929 by Manitoba Pool Elevators for a local association. A balloon annex built beside it in 1951 expanded its capacity to 60,000 bushels. A second elevator, built before 1912 by the Lake of the Woods Milling Company, was acquired by Pool in 1960 and became the B elevator at the site. Both elevators closed in July 1978 when the adjacent rail line was abandoned. The B elevator was demolished in 1981 while the A building stood vacant until at least the mid-1990s and was later removed from the site. Some records for the elevator are held at the S. J. McKee Archives.
Period
Agent / Buyer
1929-1933
B. A. McDougall
1933-1940
D. A. Stevenson
1940-1948
E. F. A. Hunter
1948-1955
G. D. Bailey
1955-1958
P. Nicolajson
1958-1960
A. E. Cochrane
1960-1978
Henry Banman
Manitoba Pool elevators (B left, A right) at Moore Park (August 1977) by John Everitt
Source: Everitt Collection, S. J. McKee Archives, Brandon University, JCE-0117.
Former Manitoba Pool elevator at Moore Park (July 1989) by John Everitt
Source: Everitt Collection, S. J. McKee Archives, Brandon University, JCE-0282.
Former Manitoba Pool elevator at Moore Park (July 1992)
Source: Historic Resources Branch, Grain Elevator Inventory, slide 1987.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.06501, W99.77761
denoted by symbol on the map above
Manitoba Pool Fonds, S. J. McKee Archives, Brandon University.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and John Everitt.
Page revised: 2 May 2021
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