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Historic Sites of Manitoba: Canadian Consolidated Grain Elevator / United Grain Growers Grain Elevator 2 (Rosebank, RM of Thompson)
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Agents / Buyers | Photos & Coordinates | Sources
A 30,000-bushel wooden grain elevator at Rosebank, on the CNR Miami Subdivision in the Rural Municipality of Thompson, was built around 1898 by the Winnipeg Elevator Company, becoming an asset of the Canadian Elevator Company in 1920 and the Canadian Consolidated Grain Company in 1928. Sold to United Grain Growers in 1959, it was closed in 1975 and demolished in 1980.
Agents / Buyers
Period
Agent / Buyer
1928-1942
Leonard P. Bingham
1943-1945
Reginald Thomas Livesley (c1920-1976)
1945-1959
Thomas T. Barkley
After 1959
See UGG 1
Photos & Coordinates
Grain elevators at Rosebank (1972)
Source: Agricore United Engineering Department, Tom Price (Mgr), provided by Glenn Dickson (University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections)
Former United Grain Growers grain elevator at Rosebank (1962)
Source: Agricore United Engineering Department, Tom Price (Mgr), provided by Glenn Dickson (University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections)Site Location (lat/long): N49.37018, W98.11253
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: United Grain Growers Grain Elevator 1 (Rosebank, RM of Thompson)
Sources:
Obituary [Reginald Thomas Livesley], Winnipeg Free Press, 2 June 1976, page 48.
Miami & R.M. of Thompson Chronicles by R.M. of Thompson History Book Committee, 1998, pages 24-25.
United Grain Growers Fonds, University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 16 December 2018
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