Cranmer

There are no grain elevators in Cranmer, Manitoba any more. It was never more than a siding between Goodlands and Waskada, built in 1906.

UGG built a grain elevator in Cranmer in 1913. This elevator collapsed in September 1928. The UGG rebuilt it in 1929 and it received an annex in 1953, for a total storage capacity of 84,000 bushels.

Cranmer elevators, 1928. Province elevator in background and collapsed UGG elevator in foreground.
Cranmer elevators, 1928. Province elevator in background and collapsed UGG elevator in foreground.

There was a second elevator at Cranmer, built by Matheson-Lindsay Grain in 1927. It changed hands a couple of times (to Province and then Reliance) before being acquired by UGG in 1948.

Both elevators were closed in December 1975.

Probably Cranmer, MB grain elevator, under construction, 1927. Contributed by the family of Ole Pedersen Kirkhus.
Probably Cranmer, MB grain elevator, under construction, 1927. Contributed by the family of Ole Pedersen Kirkhus.

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