A wooden grain elevator in Westbourne, on the CPR Minnedosa Subdivision in what is now the Municipality of WestLake-Gladstone, was built in 1938 by United Grain Growers. In 1940, two balloon annexes were built beside it to store surplus grain that could not be shipped overseas during wartime. One of them was torn down in 1946 and its timber was used to build a community club. In 1964, a 35,000-bushel elevator from Cawdor was moved on the opposite side of the elevator and converted into an annex. Closed in 1994, the facility was later demolished.
Period
Agent / Buyer
1938-1941
George Alexander Angus (1916-2008)
1941-1948
Adne Ruben Graham (1911-1987)
1948-1949
D. W. Frank MacDonald
1949-1949
A. L. Murray
1949-1956
G. A. McCrea
1956-1957
W. Ken Loney
1957-1960
H. G. Andrews
1960-1962
John Courtenay “Court” Denham (1905-1983)
1962-1962
Gordon A. Oleksuk
1962-1962
M. H. Cannon
1962-1967
Rudy Apperley
1967-1974
Wayne E. Winters
1974-1978
Leonard Price
1978-1979
Donald H. Davis
1979-1983
Jamis R. Wareham
1983-1984
Frank Mangin
1984-1994
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United Grain Growers Grain Elevator at Westbourne (July 1992)
Source: Historic Resources Branch, Grain Elevator Inventory, slide 2007.
United Grain Growers Grain Elevator at Westbourne (July 1992)
Source: Historic Resources Branch, Grain Elevator Inventory, slide 2006.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.12972, W98.57586
denoted by symbol on the map above
Digital orthophotographs, Manitoba Land Initiative, Government of Manitoba.
United Grain Growers Fonds, University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections.
Death registration [John Courtenay Denham], British Columbia Vital Statistics.
Obituary [George Alexander Angus], Winnipeg Free Press, 26 March 2008, page 31.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
We thank Ian Angus for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 12 September 2021
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