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A 35,000-bushel wooden grain elevator at Oakbank, on the CPR Keewatin Subdivision in the Rural Municipality of Springfield, was built by Manitoba Pool Elevators in the spring of 1947, replacing a Western Canada Flour Mills elevator built in 1910, sold to Manitoba Pool in 1940, and destroyed by fire in 1946. A 30,000-bushel crib annex was later built beside it. Closed as a grain-handling facility on 31 December 1977, the building was used for storage of special crops into the late 1980s. It was demolished in late December 1988.
Period
Agent / Buyer
1940-1942
W. C. “Bill” Jamieson
1942-1944
M. Snow
1944-1947
Willis John Wyatt (1912-1984)
1947-1966
George Ward Mansfield (1900-1982)
1966-1971
A. W. “Abe” Wiebe
1971-1977
Charles E. “Ted” Griffiths (1912-1977)
Aerial view of the grain elevator at Oakbank (1968)
Source: Manitoba Air Photo Library
Manitoba Pool grain elevator at Oakbank being demolished (December 1988)
Source: Elizabeth Lansard
Manitoba Pool grain elevator at Oakbank being demolished (December 1988)
Source: Elizabeth LansardSite Location (lat/long): N49.94345, W96.85112
denoted by symbol on the map above
Manitoba Pool Fonds, S. J. McKee Archives, Brandon University.
Obituary [C. E. Griffiths], Winnipeg Free Press, 29 November 1977, page 152.
Obituary [George Mansfield], Winnipeg Free Press, 9 March 1982, page 48.
Obituary [Willis John Wyatt], Winnipeg Free Press, 24 September 1984, page 28.
“Oakbank grain elevator no longer major landmark” by Cathleen Critchley, The Manitoba Beaver, 18 January 1989.
We thank Manny Jacob and Elizabeth Lansard for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Denis Sabourin (Sabourin Geomatics).
Page revised: 20 November 2022
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