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A 30,000-bushel wooden grain elevator at Vista, on the CNR Rossburn Subdivision in what is now the Municipality of Rossburn, was built around 1912 by Western Canada Flour Mills. Sold to Manitoba Pool Elevators in 1940, steel storage tanks were constructed beside it around 1964. The elevator closed in July 1968 and, that October, was sold to United Grain Growers, becoming its second elevator at the site. Closed in 1983, it was later demolished.
Period
Agent / Buyer
1912-1940
?
1940-1949
Ronald Hay
1949-1952
William Clifford “Cliff” Williams
1952-1956
W. Cecil Nichol
1956-1962
William Vincent “Vince” Barlow (1920-1982)
1962-1963
Raymond Birnie Clayton (?-1991)
1963-1964
E. R. “Ted” Stewart
1964-1965
Raymond Burnie Clayton (?-1991)
1965-1966
Roger G. Mudge (1919-2003)
1966-1968
William “Bill” Driedger
After 1968
See UGG 1
Manitoba Pool grain elevator at Vista (1962)
Source: Agricore United Engineering Department, Tom Price (Mgr), provided by Glenn Dickson (University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections)
Former Manitoba Pool grain elevator, later known as UGG No. 2, at Vista (1981)
Source: Agricore United Engineering Department, Tom Price (Mgr), provided by Glenn Dickson (University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections)Site Location (lat/long): N50.61960, W100.71403
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: United Grain Growers Grain Elevator 1 (Vista, Municipality of Rossburn)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: National Grain Elevator (Vista, Municipality of Rossburn)
Rossburn East topographic map, 62K/10 East, Edition 1, Series A743 [Archives of Manitoba].
Manitoba Pool Fonds, S. J. McKee Archives, Brandon University.
Obituary [William Vincent Barlow], Winnipeg Free Press, 4 March 1982, page 56.
Obituary [Roger G. Mudge], Winnipeg Free Press, 5 July 2003.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough, Denis Sabourin (Denis Sabourin Geomatics), and Glenn Dickson.
Page revised: 27 February 2024
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