Historic Sites of Manitoba: Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society Grain Elevator / Manitoba Pool Grain Elevator B (Railway Street West, Libau, RM of St. Clements)

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A 30,000-bushel wooden grain elevator was on Railway Street West Libau, on the CNR Victoria Beach Subdivision in the Rural Municipality of St. Clements. It was built in 1935 by the Pearson Brothers Construction Company, at a cost of about $13,000, for the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society. Expanded to 57,000 bushels in 1955, the facility was sold in 1973 to Manitoba Pool Elevators, becoming its second elevator at this point. Closed in 1975, the elevator was later demolished.

Aerial view of grain elevators at Libau (no date) by Howdy McPhail Source: Howdy McPhail Aerial Photographs, University of Saskatchewan Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.26848, W96.71777 denoted by symbol on the map above

See also:

Manitoba Business: Pearson-Burleigh Construction Company / Pearson Brothers Construction Company / Pearson Construction Company

Manitoba Business: Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society

Manitoba Business: Manitoba Pool Elevators / Agricore

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Searle Grain Elevator / Federal Grain Elevator / Manitoba Pool Grain Elevator A (Libau, RM of St. Clements)

Sources:

“Construction notes,” Winnipeg Free Press, 14 September 1935, page 30.

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

We thank Jean McManus, Russell Kroeker, Jordan Makichuk, Eileen Kent, and Jordan Makichuk for providing information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 9 May 2026

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