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A wooden grain elevator at Riverton, on the CPR Winnipeg Beach Subdivision in what is now the Municipality of Bifrost-Riverton, was built in 1949 by Manitoba Pool Elevators. A nearby Federal Grain elevator, purchased in 1971, was moved beside it and converted into an annex. After use of the railway from Gimli ended in 1988, the facility was operated as an off-track facility. Finally closed in December 1990, the structure was demolished.
Period
Agent / Buyer
1949-1952
Clarence Walter Haralson (1907-1962)
1952-1965
George Hudson Reid (1907-1998)
1965-1967
Earl W. Hyde
1967-1970
Laurence Wesley Abrey (1912-1999)
1970-1972
C. Garnet “Mickey” Lowry (1919-1984)
1972-1974
Roy C. Ellingson
1974-1975
Lynn Ernest Madsen
1975-1977
Dean A. Couvier
1977-1978
Wayne A. Smith
1978
Donald G. Kostesky
1978-1982
James R. Borgford
1982-1988
Scott Matthews
1988-1989
George Thevenot
1989-1990
Gunlaugor “Laugi” Johnson
Manitoba Pool Grain Elevator with former Federal Grain elevator being moved beside it (no date)
Source: Agricore United Engineering Department, Tom Price (Mgr), provided by Glenn Dickson (University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections)
Manitoba Pool Grain Elevator at Riverton (June 1977)
Source: George PennerSite Location (lat/long): N51.00077, W96.99853
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Searle Grain Elevator / Federal Grain Elevator (Riverton, Municipality of Bifrost-Riverton)
Obituary [C. Garnet Lowry], Winnipeg Free Press, 2 February 1984, page 74.
“Loss of elevator and rail line means end of an era,” Selkirk Journal, 6 November 1990, page 15.
Obituary [George Hudson Reid], Winnipeg Free Press, 18 April 1998, page 50.
Manitoba Pool Fonds, S. J. McKee Archives, Brandon University.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough, Glenn Dickson, and George Penner.
Page revised: 11 October 2018
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