The Solsgirth grain elevator is an ex Manitoba Pool, ex Cargill elevator located in the ghost town of Solsgirth, Manitoba.
![Manitoba Pool Elevator and Cargill elevator, Solsgirth, July 1992. Contributed by Donald Hamilton.](https://www.grainelevators.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Solsgirth-MPE-July-1992-Donald-Bloomfield-Hamilton-1-1024x667.jpg)
![Aerial view of the Solsgirth, MB grain elevator, Aug 2019. Contributed by Steve Boyko.](https://www.grainelevators.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Solsgirth-Grain-Elevator-20190824-SLB-6-1024x767.jpg)
The original Manitoba Pool grain elevator (the “B” elevator) was built in 1928 and renovated in 1985 to a capacity of 5,280 tonnes. Steel bins were added in February 1991. It was still present in 2000 but is no longer there.
![Manitoba Pool Elevators Local No 145, Solsgirth, date unknown. Donald Hamilton collection.](https://www.grainelevators.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Grain-Elevators-20200915-001.jpg)
The current elevator is the former “A” elevator with a capacity of 3,350 tonnes.
![Westeel Bins being added by Litz Crane, Solsgirth, MB Feb 1991. Contributed by Donald Hamilton.](https://www.grainelevators.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Solsgirth-MPE-Feb-1991-Donald-Bloomfield-Hamilton-2-1024x585.jpg)
At one time there was a UGG grain elevator in Solsgirth as well. It may have been the former National Grain elevator – see photo below of a derailment at the elevator in 1970.
![Derailed boxcars at grain elevator](https://www.grainelevators.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/National-Grain-Elevator-Solsgirth-3-loaded-boxcars-derailed-1970-Donald-Bloomfield-Hamilton-1-1024x1021.jpg)
Solsgirth is on the CP Bredenbury subdivision and has a railway siding.
Solsgirth has a pair of old churches, the Ukrainian Church of the Holy Spirit and the St. Stephen Anglican Church.
![Solsgirth Manitoba Pool elevator, June 1991. Contributed by Donald Hamilton.](https://www.grainelevators.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Solsgirth-MPE-June-1991-Donald-Bloomfield-Hamilton-1-1024x608.jpg)
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