Historic Sites of Manitoba: Province Grain Elevator / Canadian Consolidated Grain Elevator / United Grain Growers Grain Elevator / Manitoba Pool Grain Elevator (Kirkella, RM of Wallace-Woodworth)

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Agents / Buyers | Photos & Coordinates | Sources

A wooden grain elevator at Kirkella, on the CPR Broadview Subdivision in what is now the Rural Municipality of Wallace-Woodworth, was built in late 1922 by the Matheson-Lindsay Grain Company (precursor to today’s Parrish & Heimbecker). It was sold in 1928 to the Province Elevator Company and successively to the Canadian Consolidated Grain Company, United Grain Growers, and finally Manitoba Pool Elevators. Renovated in 1965 and 1975, a 60,000-bushel annex was built beside it in 1969. The elevator was removed from the site in 2002.

Agents / Buyers

Period	Agent / Buyer
?-?	E. J. McGinnes
?-?	Mr. McEachern
?-?	Ken Corbett
?-?	Archie Young
?-?	Murray Linner
?-?	Allan P. Smith
1965-1968	Dennis Peckover
1968-1971	C. Barry Kinley
1971	Ken R. Spencer
1971	Marvin Kowalchuk
1971-1974	Gerald R. Wilson
1974-1975	Thomas Henry Winder
1975-1977	Donald T. Leadbeater
1977-1978	Chris Grauman
1978-1981	Brian W. Morton
1981-1986	Doug Chambers
1986-1989	Clarence Frieze
1989-1992	George Thevenot
1992-1998	Dave Hunt

Photos & Coordinates

Aerial view of the Manitoba Pool grain elevator at Kirkella (1987) Source: S. J. McKee Archives, Brandon University Manitoba Pool grain elevator at Kirkella (no date) by Earl Gordon Johnston Source: Shelley Johnston-Frith Manitoba Pool grain elevator at Kirkella (no date) Source: Agricore United Engineering Department, Tom Price (Mgr), provided by Glenn Dickson (University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections) Manitoba Pool grain elevator at Kirkella (July 1992) Source: Historic Resources Branch, Grain Elevator Inventory, slide 2133. Manitoba Pool grain elevator at Kirkella (July 1997) Source: George Penner Manitoba Pool grain elevator at Kirkella (July 2001) Source: Mike Lisowski Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.02498, W101.36702 denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

Grain Elevators in Canada, compiled by Board of Grain Commissioners for Canada, Winnipeg, 1912-1930, 1930-1953, 1953-1998 [Peel’s Prairie Provinces, University of Alberta Libraries], 1998-2016 [Canadian Grain Commission].

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

Kirkella: Wagon Trails to Hardtop, 1881-1979 by Kirkella History Committee, 1979, page 12.

We thank Glenn Dickson, Mike Lisowski, Shelagh Poolie (Viterra Inc.), George Penner, and Shelley Johnston-Frith for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 10 October 2022

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