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A wooden grain elevator at Ninga, on the CPR Ninga Subdivision in what is now the Rural Municipality of Killarney-Turtle Mountain, was constructed between late 1980 and early 1981, and operated by Manitoba Pool Elevators, replacing an elevator from 1927 that was destroyed by fire on 1 December 1979. An example of the composite style combining elevator and annex into a single crib, its total capacity was 115,000 bushels. Three steel bins providing an additional 75,000 bushels of storage and an overhead 70-foot scale were added later. Closed on 31 July 2001, the elevator was sold to the Mayfair Hutterite Colony, which added a driveway hopper loading bin. The facility is still used for grain storage.
Period
Agent / Buyer
1927-1929
J. Ryan
1929-1932
R. Bulmer
1932-1935
Frank Cole McBurney (1909-1986)
1935-1949
William J. Payne
1949-1954
Edwin Gilbert Person (1919-2000)
1954-1956
L. A. Kennedy
1956-1959
J. A. Alsop
1959-1960
Henry Banman
1960-1972
Mel B. Moloney
1972-1974
Gary Small
1974-1997
Grant John Harder
1997-2001
Richard Pugh
Manitoba Pool Elevator A at Ninga, surrounded by the Pool B elevator at left and the United Grain Growers elevator at right (1964)
Source: Agricore United Engineering Department, Tom Price (Mgr), provided by Glenn Dickson (University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections)
Manitoba Pool Elevator A at Ninga, destroyed by fire in December 1979 (1976)
Source: Sandra Rempel
Aerial view of the Manitoba Pool grain elevator at Ninga (1980s)
Source: S. J. McKee Archives, Brandon University
Manitoba Pool Elevator at Ninga during its construction (November 1980)
Source: Agricore United Engineering Department, Tom Price (Mgr), provided by Glenn Dickson (University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections)
The former Manitoba Pool grain elevator at Ninga (June 2007)
Source: Bernie Freeman
The former Manitoba Pool grain elevator at Ninga (October 2017)
Source: Richard Pugh
The former Manitoba Pool grain elevator at Ninga (September 2020)
Source: Thibault JourdanSite Location (lat/long): N49.22636, W99.88938
denoted by symbol on the map above
Reflections - A Community History of the Rural Municipality of Turtle Mountain and the Town of Killarney, 1882-1982. [Manitoba Legislative Library, F5648.T87]
Manitoba Pool Fonds, S. J. McKee Archives, Brandon University.
Obituary [Frank Cole McBurney], Winnipeg Free Press, 9 April 1986, page 48.
Obituary [Edwin Gilbert Person], Winnipeg Free Press, 29 April 2000.
We thank Sandra Rempel, Richard Pugh, Glenn Dickson, Bernie Freeman, and Thibault Jourdan for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 20 September 2020
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