Built by the Matheson Grain Company in 1914, a 30,000-bushel wooden grain elevator at Willen, on the CPR Rocanville Subdivision in what is now the Rural Municipality of Ellice-Archie, was sold in 1918 to the Lake of the Woods Milling Company. Its office was destroyed by fire on 8 January 1955 and rebuilt. Sold to Manitoba Pool Elevators in November 1959, the facility was closed the following year. No vestige of the elevator remains at the site.
Aerial view of the Lake of the Woods grain elevator at Willen (1956)
Source: A15528-47, Manitoba Air Photo LibrarySite Location (lat/long): N50.17080, W101.22186
denoted by symbol on the map above
A15528-47 (1956), Manitoba Air Photo Library.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 1 September 2017
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