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A grain elevator at Ashville, on the CNR Togo Subdivision in what is now the Municipality of Gilbert Plains, was built in 1946 for United Grain Growers, replacing an earlier elevator built in 1912 by the Manitoba government and leased to UGG until 1924. Attached to the UGG Gilbert Plains local until August 1949, a separate local was organized that year. The elevator’s capacity in 1972, with two associated wooden annexes (one built in 1946, the other in 1952), was 81,000 bushels. The elevator was removed from the site between 1995 and 1997.
Period
Manager
1912-1915
?
1915-1916
John F. Kitt
1917-1932
H. F. Scott
1932-1942
R. A. “Bob” Scott
1942-1954
Frank MacDonald
1954-1965
Don Glover
1965-1966
Wayne Pope
1966-1970
Harold Dryda
1970-1973
Dave Martinusson
1973-1979
Robert M. Laidlaw
1979-1980
D. C. Knott
1980-1982
Floyd A. Price
1982-?
Dennis J. Glennie
United Grain Growers elevator at Ashville (no date)
Source: Leinita Woods
United Grain Growers elevator at Ashville (August 1993)
Source: Historic Resources Branch, Grain Elevator Inventory, slide 1941.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N51.17686, W100.29939
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: National Grain Elevator (Ashville, Municipality of Gilbert Plains)
“History of United Grain Growers Local #157, Ashville, Manitoba.,” United Grain Growers Ltd., MSS76, Box 59, University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections.
We thank Leinita Woods and Shelagh Poolie (Viterra Inc.) for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 28 February 2020
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