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A wooden grain elevator in Virden, on the CPR Broadview Subdivision, was operated by United Grain Growers.
Period
Agent / Buyer
1917-1920
J. G. Robertson
1920
W. Mullins
1921-1929
W. A. Herrick
1929-1936
William G. “Bill” Munn
1936-1944
H. Johnston
1944-1953
R. G. Anderson
1953-1962
Alex F. Gardner
1962
Borden Arnold
1963-1970
J. E. McGill
1970-1981
William Ritchie
1981-1984
Kenneth James Wadham
1984-1985
Daryl Fisher
United Grain Growers grain elevator at Virden (1962)
Source: Agricore United Engineering Department, Tom Price (Mgr), provided by Glenn Dickson (University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections)
United Grain Growers grain elevator at Virden with the Manitoba Pool grain elevator in the background (1971)
Source: Agricore United Engineering Department, Tom Price (Mgr), provided by Glenn Dickson (University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections)
United Grain Growers grain elevator at Virden with the Manitoba Pool grain elevator in the background (1981)
Source: Agricore United Engineering Department, Tom Price (Mgr), provided by Glenn Dickson (University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections)
United Grain Growers grain elevator at Virden (1981)
Source: Agricore United Engineering Department, Tom Price (Mgr), provided by Glenn Dickson (University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections)
United Grain Growers grain elevator at Virden (July 1992)
Source: Historic Resources Branch, Grain Elevator Inventory, slide 2002.Site Location (lat/long): N49.84781, W100.92571
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Manitoba Pool Grain Elevator (Fifth Avenue South, Virden)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Manitoba Pool Grain Elevator / Private Grain Elevator (RM of Wallace-Woodworth)
United Grain Growers Fonds, University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections.
Digital orthophotographs, Manitoba Land Initiative, Government of Manitoba.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and George Penner.
Page revised: 4 May 2021
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