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In early 1951, farmers at St. Jean Baptiste, on the CNR Emerson Subdivision in the Rural Municipality of Montcalm, convinced Manitoba Pool President William J. Parker to build a 40,000-bushel elevator there. Opened in August of that year, its capacity was more than doubled with a six-bin annex constructed in 1952. Thirteen years later, a crib annex added 90,000 bushels of space. Modernized and fully renovated in 1971, three steel bins were built next to the elevator in 1991, and track capacity was expanded in 1994.
Closed by Agricore in 2001, the elevator was used for private grain storage until 14 October 2023 when the wooden elevator was destroyed by fire.
Period
Agent / Buyer
1951-1965
David Friesen
1965-1980
Henri P. Trudel (1924-2015)
1980-1995
Leon Lafond
1995-1997
Van Huebner
1997-1998
James R. Borgford
1998-2001
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Former Manitoba Pool grain elevator at St. Jean Baptiste (September 2014)
Source: Jean McManus
Former Manitoba Pool grain elevator at St. Jean Baptiste (November 2021)
Source: George Penner
Former site of Manitoba Pool grain elevator at St. Jean Baptiste (November 2023)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Former site of Manitoba Pool grain elevator at St. Jean Baptiste (November 2023)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Former site of Manitoba Pool grain elevator at St. Jean Baptiste (November 2023)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.26888, W97.34260
denoted by symbol on the map above
Manitoba Pool Fonds, S. J. McKee Archives, Brandon University.
Obituary [Henri P. Trudel], Winnipeg Free Press, 1 September 2015.
“St. Jean Baptiste grain elevator destroyed by fire was ‘part of our history’: reeve,” CBC News, 14 October 2023.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Jean McManus.
Page revised: 14 October 2023
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