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United Grain Growers built a grain elevator in Sifton, on the CNR Cowan Subdivision in the Rural Municipality of Dauphin, in 1917. It was destroyed by fire on 26 June 1926. Rather than rebuild it, the company bought the North Star grain elevator in August 1926. It was renovated several times and a 50,000-bushel annex was constructed in 1950. The old elevator was converted to an annex in 1957 and a 66,000-bushel elevator was built. In the 1971 the old elevator-annex was torn down. Closed in 1992, the remaining elevator was demolished in March 1993.
Period
Agent / Buyer
1917-1926
J. Fred Kitt
1926-1937
R. F. Forrester
1937-1945
J. Fred Kitt
1945-1950
Dick Wiebe
1950-1955
Cliff Alguire
1955-1978
Frank MacDonald
1978-1984
Joseph R. “Joe” Price
?-?
Ernie Hanke
?-?
J. R. Malley
?-?
Alious Pizunski
United Grain Growers grain elevators at Sifton, with the older elevator at right and the newer elevator to its left (no date)
Source: Agricore United Engineering Department, Tom Price (Mgr), provided by Glenn Dickson (University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections)
United Grain Growers grain elevators at Sifton after being painted in the modern white and blue colours (1966)
Source: Agricore United Engineering Department, Tom Price (Mgr), provided by Glenn Dickson (University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections)Site Coordinates (lat/long): N51.36068, W100.14445
denoted by symbol on the map above
Sifton Then and Now by Elsie Lesyk, Dauphin: self-published, 1992.
“Sifton loses elevator” by Dale Barbour, Dauphin Herald, 16 March 1993, page 1.
UGG Fonds, MSS76, Box 60, University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 16 January 2022
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