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A small wooden grain elevator in Underhill, on the CNR Hartney Subdivision in what is now the Municipality of Grassland, was built in 1908 by the Underhill Farmers’ Elevator Company. One of three elevators operating here by 1917, its ownership was transferred to the provincial government in 1911, then leased and in 1926 purchased outright by United Grain Growers. In 1966, it was sold to local farmer Walter Sommerville and was used for private grain storage for some years but was standing vacant at the time of a 1992 site visit. Graffiti on its side said “Burn Me Please.” The elevator was gone by the mid-1990s.
Period
Agent / Buyer
1908-1924
?
1924-1935
Knute Otto Roste (1889-1971)
1935-1954
Dunc Martin
1954-1956
Jim Miller
1956-1960
George Porter
1960-1964
Ray Adams
1964-1966
Stan Johnson
The former Underhill Farmers’ grain elevator at Underhill (August 1992)
Source: Historic Resources Branch, Grain Elevator Inventory, slide 1997.
The former Underhill Farmers’ grain elevator at Underhill (August 1992)
Source: Historic Resources Branch, Grain Elevator Inventory, slide 2000.
The former Underhill Farmers’ grain elevator at Underhill, with the monument for Barber School visible at the right (August 1992)
Source: Historic Resources Branch, Grain Elevator Inventory, slide 1998.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.44368, W100.38640
denoted by symbol on the map above
History of United Grain Growers Local #169, Elgin-Hartney, UGG Fonds, Box 59, MSS 76, University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections.
List of Grain Elevators, Warehouses, Flour, Feed and Oatmeal Mills, Legislative Library of Manitoba, SB190.Lis.
A Century of Living, Hartney: 1882-1982 by Hartney and District Historical Committee, 1982, page 142. [Legislative Library of Manitoba, F5649.H37 Cen]
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 2 May 2021
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