A wooden grain elevator in Strathclair, on the CPR Bredenbury Subdivision in what is now the Rural Municipality of Yellowhead, was once operated by the Pioneer Grain Company. Sold to United Grain Growers in 1969, it was re-sold to Manitoba Pool in 1974. It has since been removed from the site.
Pioneer grain elevator at Strathclair, owned at the time by the Western Grain Company, and bracketed on each side by a United Grain Growers grain elevator on the left and a Reliance Grain Company grain elevator on the right (no date)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Former Pioneer grain elevator at Strathclair (1972)
Source: Agricore United Engineering Department, Tom Price (Mgr), provided by Glenn Dickson (University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections)Site Location (lat/long): N50.40370, W100.39947
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: United Grain Growers Grain Elevator / Manitoba Pool Grain Elevator (Strathclair, RM of Yellowhead)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Reliance Grain Elevator / Manitoba Pool Grain Elevator (Strathclair, RM of Yellowhead)
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 4 May 2021
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