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A wooden grain elevator at Sandy Lake, on the CNR Rossburn Subdivision in the Municipality of Harrison Park, was built in 1953 by Manitoba Pool Elevators and an attached crib annex dates from 1967. Extensively renovated in 1986, the facility was closed in April 1996, due to abandonment of its railway line, and sold into private hands. It continues in use for local grain storage.
Period
Agent / Buyer
1943-1946
S. W. Verbiweski
1946-1947
Dennis Albert Corder (1922-1984)
1947-1949
?
1949-1974
S. W. Verbiweski
1974-1981
Phillip J. Tyschinski
1981-1994
Ernie Skocylas
1994-1995
Rick Kienas
1995-1996
Ralph Steven Tanchak (1957-2019)
Aerial view of grain elevators at Sandy Lake (1980s)
Source: Manitoba Pool Fonds, S. J. McKee Archive, Brandon University
Manitoba Pool grain elevators at Sandy Lake (1960) by Earl Gordon Johnston
Source: Shelley Johnston-Frith
Manitoba Pool grain elevator B at Sandy Lake (1960) by Earl Gordon Johnston
Source: Shelley Johnston-Frith
Former Manitoba Pool grain elevator B at Sandy Lake undergoing renovation (1986) by Lawrence Stuckey
Source: Stuckey Collection, S. J. McKee Archive, Brandon University
Former Manitoba Pool grain elevator B at Sandy Lake (November 2009)
Source: George Penner
Former Manitoba Pool grain elevator B at Sandy Lake (September 2014)
Source: Jean McManus
Former Manitoba Pool grain elevator B at Sandy Lake (July 2017)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N50.52719, W100.17456
denoted by symbol on the map above
Manitoba Pool Fonds, S. J. McKee Archives, Brandon University.
Obituary [Ralph Steven Tanchak], Winnipeg Free Press, 28 May 2019.
We thank Jean McManus, George Penner, and Shelley Johnston-Frith for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 10 October 2022
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