Historic Sites of Manitoba: Lake of the Woods Grain Elevator / Manitoba Pool Grain Elevator C (Thornhill, RM of Stanley)

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Agents / Buyers | Photos & Coordinates | Sources

A 20,000-bushel wooden grain elevator at Thornhill, on the CPR La Riviere Subdivision in the Rural Municipality of Stanley, was built before 1912 by Lake of the Woods Milling. Sold to Ogilvie Flour Mills in late 1954, it was acquired by Manitoba Pool Elevators in early 1960 to become Pool C. Its new identity was short-lived, however, as it was destroyed by fire in 1962 and not rebuilt.

Agents / Buyers

Period

Agent / Buyer

c1912-c1953

?

c1953-1958

Abram C. Wiebe

1958-1960

?

1960-1962

Theodore Howard Jaasund (1920-1986)

Photos & Coordinates

Aerial view of the grain elevators at Thornhill

Aerial view of the grain elevators at Thornhill (1948)
Source: Manitoba Air Photo Library

Former Lake of the Woods grain elevator at Thornhill on fire

Former Lake of the Woods grain elevator at Thornhill on fire (1962)
Source: Don White

Site Location (lat/long): N49.20060, W98.23223
denoted by symbol on the map above

See also:

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Manitoba Pool Grain Elevator A (Thornhill, RM of Stanley)

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Ogilvie Grain Elevator / Manitoba Pool Grain Elevator B (Thornhill, RM of Stanley)

Sources:

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

Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.

We thank Don White for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough, Edith Mulhall, and Denis Sabourin (Sabourin Geomatics Ltd.).

Page revised: 6 August 2019

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