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A “ghost sign” is readily apparent in this former United Grain Growers elevator at Silverton, on the CNR Rossburn Subdivision in the Rural Municipality of Riding Mountain West. Built around 1918 by the British America Elevator Company and acquired by National Grain in 1940, the 34,000-bushel elevator was sold to UGG six years later. An older UGG elevator was torn down in 1963 and this elevator was moved to its site, a 65,000-bushel crib annex was built beside it, and the plant was modernized. A new white-and-blue paint job covered over the former UGG graphic and checkerboard pattern, which has been slowly revealed as the newer paint flakes off. Traded to Manitoba Pool in 1974, it was closed on 31 December 1990 and is in private hands now. It is no longer serviced by a railway line. The annex was repainted in UGG colours in August 2019.
Period
Agent / Buyer
1946-1974
?
1974-1980
Alan Wilson
1980-1986
Richard Dereniwski
1986-1988
Brad Scora
1988-1989
Barry Semple
1989-1990
Glenn Fehr
United Grain Growers grain elevator at Silverton (1961)
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 Silverton (July 1992)
Source: Historic Resources Branch, Grain Elevator Inventory, slide 2046.
Former United Grain Growers grain elevator at Silverton (January 2000)
Source: Mike Lisowski
Former United Grain Growers grain elevator at Silverton (September 2014)
Source: Jean McManus
Former United Grain Growers grain elevator at Silverton (May 2016)
Source: Bernadine Brown
Aerial view of former United Grain Growers grain elevator at Silverton (June 2018)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Aerial view of the newly repainted annex of the former United Grain Growers grain elevator at Silverton (August 2019)
Source: Steve Boyko
Former United Grain Growers grain elevator at Silverton (May 2022)
Source: George PennerSite Coordinates (lat/long): N50.76643, W101.16312
denoted by symbol on the map above
“Silverton elevator to close,” Russell Banner, 3 April 1990, page 2A.
We thank Steve Boyko, Jean McManus, and George Penner for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough, Mike Lisowski, and Bernadine Brown.
Page revised: 22 May 2022
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