Historic Sites of Manitoba: Manitoba Pool Grain Elevator (Graham, RM of Roland)

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Agents / Buyers | Photos & Coordinates | Sources

A wooden grain elevator at the railway siding of Graham, on the CPR Carman Subdivision in the Rural Municipality of Roland, was built in 1927 by Manitoba Pool Elevators. Closed in July 1971, the railway was abandoned in November 1975. No vestige of the railway tracks, elevator, agent’s residence, or access roads remain at the site in the middle of an agricultural field.

Agents / Buyers

Period	Agent / Buyer
1927-1928	F. A. Ritter
1928-1929	F. A. Newman
1929-1936	J. E. Dorey
1936-1938	D. J. McDonald
1938-1940	Gordon Alexander Greenaway (1898-1983)
1940-1941	Andrew Ralph Smith (1914-1986)
1941-1944	W. W. Cowan
1944-1961	Andrew Ralph Smith (1914-1986)
1961-1969	Gary R. Small
1969-1971	J. M. Burnett

Photos & Coordinates

Aerial view of the Manitoba Pool grain elevator and agent’s residence at Graham (no date) Source: Doreen Smith The Manitoba Pool grain elevator at Graham (no date) Source: Doreen Smith Site Location (lat/long): N49.42475, W97.96448 denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

Manitoba Pool Fonds, S. J. McKee Archives, Brandon University.

Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.

Obituary [Andrew Ralph Smith], Winnipeg Free Press, 23 December 1986, page 37.

We thank Doreen Smith for providing information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 4 May 2021

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