Historic Sites of Manitoba: Manitoba Pool Grain Elevator (Starbuck, RM of Macdonald)

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Agents / Buyers | Photos & Coordinates | Sources

A pair of wooden grain elevators in Starbuck, on the CPR Glenboro Subdivision in the Rural Municipality of Macdonald, were operated by Manitoba Pool Elevators. In 1993, the elevators were replaced by a larger, concrete elevator to the east of them then they were demolished in January 2001. The elevators are commemorated at the site by a monument built by Len Goldsborough.

Agents / Buyers (Pool A)

Period	Agent / Buyer
1927-1928	Eugene Carroll
1928-1929	A. Dunsmore
1929-1930	F. A. Owens
1930-1939	J. E. Greenaway
1939-1944	Arthur J. Brown
1944-1946	M. Snow
1947-1948	Earl Shursell
1948-1951	D. O. Bye
1951-1972	Fred Lawrence Topham (c1908-1991)
1972-1995	Ernest Joseph “Ernie” Chumola (1935-2012)
1995-1996	?
1996-1998	Allan Wilson

Agents / Buyers (Pool B)

Period	Agent / Buyer
1940-1947	C. E. Dauphinais
1948-1951	George R. Suggitt
1951-1952	W. K. Mann
1952-1955	C. R. Frost
1955-1966	Frederick Thompson “Fred” Bowles (1915-1990)
1966-1970	David Martens

Agents / Buyers (Pool C)

Period	Agent / Buyer
1960-1964	Frederick Thompson “Fred” Bowles (1915-1990)
1966-1972	David Martens

Photos & Coordinates

Manitoba Pool grain elevators at Starbuck (1957) Source: Wayne Schuman Manitoba Pool grain elevators at Starbuck (1959) by Earl Gordon Johnston Source: Shelley Johnston-Frith Manitoba Pool grain elevators at Starbuck (1959) by Earl Gordon Johnston Source: Shelley Johnston-Frith Manitoba Pool grain elevators at Starbuck (1959) by Earl Gordon Johnston Source: Shelley Johnston-Frith Aerial view of the Starbuck grain elevators with a new concrete replacement under construction in the background (1992) Source: Manitoba Pool Fonds, S. J. McKee Archives. Manitoba Pool grain elevator at Starbuck (July 1997) Source: George Penner Manitoba Pool grain elevator at Starbuck (June 1999) Source: George Penner The former Manitoba Pool grain elevators at Starbuck (2000) Source: Jean Ammeter The former Manitoba Pool grain elevators at Starbuck being demolished (January 2001) Source: Alan Livingston Monument for the Starbuck grain elevators (July 2018) by Len Goldsborough Source: Jean McManus Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.76909, W97.61910 denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

Manitoba Pool Fonds, S. J. McKee Archives, Brandon University.

Obituary [Frederick Thompson Bowles], Winnipeg Free Press, 26 July 1990, page 43.

Obituary [Fred Lawrence Topham], Winnipeg Free Press, 11 February 1991, page 23.

Obituary [Ernest Joseph Chumola], Winnipeg Free Press, 15 December 2012.

We thank Rosalind Malcolm, Jean Ammeter, George Penner, Jean McManus, 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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