List of grain elevators

Last updated January 24, 2024

List of notable grain elevators:

Canada

Alberta

Acadia Valley - Prairie Elevator Museum, former Alberta Wheat Pool converted into a tea house / museum.^[1]
Alberta Central Railroad Museum - former Alberta Wheat Pool, second oldest standing grain elevator in Alberta, moved from Hobbema.^[2]
Andrew - former Alberta Wheat Pool, restored into a museum.
Castor - former Alberta Pacific, restored into a museum.^[3]
Big Valley - Alberta Wheat Pool used as a museum complete with a train station and Roundhouse.^[4]
Edmonton - Ritchie Mill, former flour mill converted into restaurants, law offices and condos.^[5]
Esther - former Alberta Wheat Pool, restored into a museum.
Haselwood Mill - Alberta's oldest seed cleaning mill, operated from the 1930s to 1960s.
Heritage Acres Farm Museum - restored United Grain Growers elevator moved from Brocket.^[6]
Heritage Park Historical Village, former Security Elevator Co. LTD. moved from Shonts ^[7]
Kinuso - United Grain Growers with Original UGG Logo.
Leduc - former Alberta wheat Pool saved from demolition now a museum.^[8]
Lougheed -
Mayerthorpe - 1966 Federal Grain Co. now an interpretive center.^[9]
Meeting Creek, a refurbished Alberta Wheat Pool, Pacific Grain elevator and CN train station.^[10]
Nanton - Canadian Grain Elevator Discovery Centre, three elevators saved from demolition and preserved to educate visitors about the town's, and Alberta's, agricultural history.^[11]
Paradise Valley - operated as the Climb Thru Time Museum.
Radway - Krause Milling Co. restored into a museum.^[12]
Raley - oldest standing grain elevator on its original site in Alberta, built in 1909 maintaining many of its original features.
Rowley - a United Grain Growers, and Alberta Wheat Pool elevators saved from demolition by locals and now fully restored.
Scandia - 1920s Alberta Wheat Pool now a museum.
South Peace Centennial Museum, United Grain Growers moved from Albright.^[13]
Spruce Grove - Spruce Grove Grain Elevator Museum, 1958 Alberta Wheat Pool, saved from demolition and maintained as an operating museum.
St. Albert - 1906 Alberta Grain Co. and 1929 Alberta Wheat Pool Elevators now restored.^[14]
Stirling Elevator, near Stirling, Alberta, Canada, built 1998-1999.
Stettler - 1920 Parrish and Heimbecker grain elevator / feed mill and coal shed, last to stand in Alberta now protected and restored as a museum.^[15]
Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village - Former Home Grain Co. moved from Bellis ^[16]
Warner - Warner elevator row, last surviving elevator row in Alberta with a total of 3 elevators. Currently unprotected.

British Columbia

Creston - former Alberta Wheat Pool (1936) and United Grain Growers (1937) elevators that still stand tall on the edge of the downtown core in the middle of the Creston Valley.
Dawson Creek - restored and refurbished as a community art gallery.

Manitoba

Inglis - Inglis elevator row, last surviving elevator row in Manitoba with a total of four elevators. Now designated and protected as a National Historic Site of Canada.
Niverville - Western Canada's first grain elevator, erected by William Hespeler in 1879
Plum Coulee - grain elevator refurbished as a restaurant and meeting rooms.
Holmfield - Harrison Grain elevator and flour mill - still owned by the Harrison family

Ontario

Port Perry - formerly Curries Grain Elevator(1873)and A.Ross and son, Port Perry. Canada's oldest grain elevator or granary still stands as a sentinel on the edge of the Queen Street, Port Perry, Scugog the prestige shopping district on the shores of Lake Scugog. A must see for all old mill and grain elevator enthusiasts. This grain elevator is far older than those in Elva, Manitoba and Fleming, Saskatchewan by almost twenty years and the second oldest grain elevator in the Americas.

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Saskatchewan

Coderre - derelict
Edam - former Saskatchewan Wheat Pool now a museum.
Fleming - oldest standing grain elevator on its original site in Fleming, built in 1895 and maintaining many of its original features.
Gravelbourg - Former Saskatchewan Wheat Pool saved from demolition and now a museum.
Indian Head - experimental farm grain elevator refurbished as a Café, coffee house.
North Battleford Heritage Museum - former Saskatchewan Wheat Pool moved from North Battleford.
Sukanen Ship Pioneer Village and Museum - former Victoria - McCabe moved from Mawer.^[17]
Val Marie - former Federal and 1967 Centennial Saskatchewan Wheat Pool now museums.
Western Development Museum, former Saskatchewan Wheat Pool moved from ??.
Wood Mountain - former Saskatchewan Wheat Pool now a museum.

Quebec

Grain Elevator no. 3 - Port of Montreal - former Miron Elevating - Montreal
Grain Elevator no. 4 - Viterra Terminal | Cereal Terminal - Port of Montreal - Montreal
Grain Elevator no. 5 - Port of Montreal - former Grand Trunk Elevator - Montreal
Canada Linseed Oil - Abandoned plant elevator.
Canada Multi-Food Ltd. - Montreal
Canada Malting Co. Ltd. - Port of Montreal - New elevator - Montreal
Canada Malting Co. Ltd. - St. Henri - Old elevator - Montreal^[18]^{[ circular reference ]}

Switzerland

Swissmill Tower – 118 metres (387 ft) high,^[19] rebuilt by April 2016 – Limmat Valley in the Canton of Zürich

United States

Baltimore, Maryland

Silo Point, currently being reconstructed into a condominium from the former Baltimore and Ohio Locust Point Grain Terminal Elevator, one of the largest grain terminal elevators to be constructed in the early 20th century, with a capacity of 3.8 billion bushels in Baltimore, Maryland.

Buffalo, New York

Cargill Pool Elevator, previously named the Saskatchewan Cooperative Elevator was built in 1925 offered a total holding capacity of 2.1 million bushels in 135 bins.
Cargill Superior elevator, marked as Cargill "S", built between 1914 and 1925.
Concrete-Central Elevator, Buffalo, New York The largest transfer elevator in the world at the time of its completion in 1917.
Connecting Terminal, Clearly visible from across canalside and the Commercial Slip the structure is now used for boat storage.
General Mills Plant, or "The Frontier Elevator" General Mill's Buffalo factory is a large scale grain mill and cereal production facility, most notably producing Gold Medal brand flour, Wheaties, Cheerios and other General Mills brand cereals.
Dart's Elevator, the world's first steam powered elevator - built in 1842.
Great Northern Elevator, built in 1897 by the Great Northern Railroad.
Lake & Rail Grain Elevator, part of the "elevator alley" The Lake and Rail produces over 2,700,00 pounds of flour a day.
Marine A grain elevator, also part of the "elevator alley" and across from the Lake & Rail Grain Elevator.
The Standard Elevator, was named after the Standard Milling Company and built in 1926.
Wollenberg Grain and Seed Elevator, wooden "country style" elevator formerly located in Buffalo, New York; destroyed by fire in October 2006.

Illinois

Archer Daniels Midland Wheat Mill, constructed in 1927, in Chicago's Fulton Market District.
Armour's Warehouse, constructed in 1861–62 on the north bank of the Illinois-Michigan Canal in Seneca, Illinois.

Iowa

Historic Ely Elevator, built in 1900, part of the Dows Street Historic District.

Minnesota

Northwestern Consolidated Milling Company Elevator A, also known as the Ceresota Building and "The Million Bushel Elevator"^{[ citation needed ]} was a receiving and public grain elevator built by the Northwestern Consolidated Milling Company in 1908 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Peavey–Haglin Experimental Concrete Grain Elevator, St. Louis Park, Minnesota, USA, built in 1899–1900.
Saint Paul Municipal Grain Terminal, in St. Paul, Minnesota, on the NRHP.

Historic Cooperative Elevator, a row of corrugated steel hopper bottom bins on the left and cribbed annex bins on the right, Crowell, Texas Graincoop.JPG — Historic Cooperative Elevator, a row of corrugated steel hopper bottom bins on the left and cribbed annex bins on the right, Crowell, Texas

North Dakota

North Dakota Mill and Elevator, largest flour mill in the United States, located in Grand Forks, North Dakota.

Oklahoma

Bricktown, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma is home to OKC Rocks, a former grain elevator that has been turned into an indoor rock climbing facility located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Ingersoll Tile Elevator, elevator constructed of hollow red clay tiles, located in Ingersoll, Oklahoma.

Pennsylvania

Reading Company Grain Elevator, export elevator in Philadelphia converted into offices.

The John Thompson Coal Sheds and Granary, the only wooden grain elevator in Pennsylvania. Located in Lemont, Pennsylvania.

South Dakota

Zip Feed Tower two days after its attempted demolition. ZipFeedMill.jpg — Zip Feed Tower two days after its attempted demolition.

Zip Feed Tower, tallest occupiable structure in South Dakota from its construction in 1956-1957 until its demolition in December 2005.

Wyoming

Sheridan Flouring Mills, Inc., an industrial complex in Sheridan, Wyoming.

Other countries

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Watson's Mill is an historic flour and gristmill in Manotick, Ontario, Canada. It is the only working museum in the Ottawa area and one of the very few operating industrial grist mills in North America. Watson's Mill still sells stone-ground whole wheat flour which is made on site. The mill is also well known for its ghost Annabelle. The legend is that Ann Currier, wife of Joseph, haunts the mill, following her death in a tragic accident there in 1861. Watson's Mill is Manotick's most recognized landmark. Its image is used as a symbol for the village.

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The Saskatchewan Wheat Pool was a grain handling, agri-food processing and marketing company based in Regina, Saskatchewan. The Pool created a network of marketing alliances in North America and internationally which made it the largest agricultural grain handling operation in the province of Saskatchewan. Before becoming Viterra, SWP had operated 276 retail outlets and more than 100 grain handling and marketing centres. The Saskatchewan Wheat Pool operated under the name of AgPro in the prairie provinces of Manitoba and Alberta. Begun as a co-operative in the 1920s, the company became a publicly traded corporation in the 1990s. After the 2007 takeover of its competitor, Winnipeg-based Agricore United, the Pool name was retired. The merged company operated under the name Viterra until 2013, when it was acquired by Glencore International.

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Richardson International Limited is a privately held Canadian agricultural and food industry company headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The company is one of several companies that are owned by James Richardson & Sons Limited. The company is a worldwide handler and merchandiser of all major Canadian-grown grains and oilseeds and a vertically integrated processor and manufacturer of oats and canola-based products. Richardson has over 2,500 employees across Canada, the U.S. and U.K. Richardson International is a subsidiary of James Richardson & Sons, Limited, established in 1857.

The Warner elevator row is a group of four historic wood-cribbed grain elevators standing in a row from south to north alongside the Canadian Pacific Railway line from Great Falls, Montana to Lethbridge, Alberta at the east entrance of the village of Warner, Alberta, Canada. At one time, the row had at least seven elevators.

The Canadian Grain Elevator Discovery Centre is a set of restored grain elevators located in Nanton, Alberta, Canada. The centre's goal is to preserve examples of old grain elevators to educate visitors about the town's, and Alberta's, agricultural history.

The Krause Milling Co grain elevator and flour mill site complex is composed of a 1929 grain elevator, drive shed, office/powerhouse, storage building and foundation of the 1929 flour mill, in the center of Radway, Alberta.

The Ritchie Mill is the oldest surviving flour mill in the province of Alberta.

The Prairie Elevator Museum is a former Alberta Wheat Pool grain elevator that has been restored and converted into a community gift shop and tea house. The elevator stands within the Hamlet of Acadia Valley, Alberta, next to the defunct Canadian National Railway track bed.

The Spruce Grove Grain Elevator Museum is a former Alberta Wheat Pool grain elevator that has been preserved as a working museum run by the volunteers of the Spruce Grove and District Agricultural Society. The elevator stands within the City of Spruce Grove, Alberta, next to the Canadian National Railway and is the last elevator remaining heading west on the Yellowhead Highway and along the CN.

St. Albert Grain Elevator Park is an open-air museum which features two historic grain elevators and a reconstructed railway station.

The Esterhazy Flour Mill is located at 517 Smith-Dorrien Street, Esterhazy, Saskatchewan. Construction of the mill was started in 1904 and was completed in 1907. The current owner is the Town of Esterhazy and is run by the Friends of the Flour Mill. The Esterhazy Flour Mill is the only remaining wood-frame construction flour mill in Saskatchewan. The Provincial Heritage Property designation was announced in 2005 and on July 8, 2009, the Esterhazy Flour Mill was designated as a National Historic Site.

The Cargill Pool Elevator is a grain storage facility in Buffalo harbor built in the 1920s and previously named the Saskatchewan Cooperative Elevator. The elevator is the only grain elevator in Buffalo that is located directly adjacent to Lake Erie.

Manitoba Pool Elevators was a grain trade company founded in 1924. It became a subsidiary of the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool until November 1932, when the Pool declared bankruptcy. In 1998 Alberta Wheat Pool and Manitoba Pool Elevators merged to form Agricore Cooperative Limited. In 2001, United Grain Growers combined its business operations with Agricore Cooperative Ltd. and carried on business as Agricore United, a publicly traded company, no longer a farmer-owned cooperative. In 2007, Agricore United was taken over by the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool, another publicly traded company. The merged corporation was renamed Viterra.

The Saskatchewan Grain Growers' Association (SGGA) was a farmer's association that was active in Saskatchewan, Canada in the early 20th century. It was a successor to the Territorial Grain Growers' Association, and was formed in 1906 after Saskatchewan became a province. It provided a voice for farmers in their struggle with grain dealers and the railways, and was influential in obtaining favorable legislation. The association initially resisted calls to create a farmer-owned marketing company. Later it did support formation of the Saskatchewan Co-operative Elevator Company. The SGGA helped the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool, a cooperative marketing organization, to become established in 1924. In 1926 the SGGA merged with the more radical Farmers' Union of Canada, which had earlier split from the SGGA, to create the United Farmers of Canada,

The Saskatchewan Co-operative Elevator Company (SCEC) was a farmer-owned enterprise that provided grain storage and handling services to farmers in Saskatchewan, Canada between 1911 and 1926, when its assets were purchased by the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool.

G3 is a Canadian grain company headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It consists of two operating companies:

References

↑ Acadia Valley elevator Archived 2009-08-16 at the Wayback Machine
↑ Alberta Central Railroad Museum
↑ Castor elevator
↑ Big Valley elevator Archived 2013-10-03 at the Wayback Machine
↑ Ritchie Mill - Edmonton
↑ Heritage Acres
↑ Calgary Heritage Park
↑ Alberta Legacy Development Society - Leduc
↑ "Mayerthorpe elevator". Archived from the original on 2016-04-04. Retrieved 2009-12-05.
↑ Meeting Creek elevator
↑ Canadian Grain Elevator Discovery Center - Nanton
↑ "Radway elevator". Archived from the original on 2016-12-24. Retrieved 2009-12-05.
↑ South Peace Centennial Museum
↑ St. Albert elevator Archived 2009-07-21 at the Wayback Machine
↑ Stettler elevator
↑ Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village
↑ Sukanen Ship Pioneer Village & Museum Archived 2013-02-18 at the Wayback Machine
↑ Canada Malting Silos, Montreal
↑ Florian Niedermann (2016-04-27). "Der Swissmill-Tower spaltet Zürich" (in German). Limmattaler Zeitung . Retrieved 2016-05-19.

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[1] Acadia Valley elevator Archived 2009-08-16 at the Wayback Machine

[2] Alberta Central Railroad Museum

[3] Castor elevator

[4] Big Valley elevator Archived 2013-10-03 at the Wayback Machine

[5] Ritchie Mill - Edmonton

[6] Heritage Acres

[7] Calgary Heritage Park

[8] Alberta Legacy Development Society - Leduc

[9] "Mayerthorpe elevator". Archived from the original on 2016-04-04. Retrieved 2009-12-05.

[10] Meeting Creek elevator

[11] Canadian Grain Elevator Discovery Center - Nanton

[12] "Radway elevator". Archived from the original on 2016-12-24. Retrieved 2009-12-05.

[13] South Peace Centennial Museum

[14] St. Albert elevator Archived 2009-07-21 at the Wayback Machine

[15] Stettler elevator

[16] Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village

[17] Sukanen Ship Pioneer Village & Museum Archived 2013-02-18 at the Wayback Machine

[18] Canada Malting Silos, Montreal

[limmattaler-19] Florian Niedermann (2016-04-27). "Der Swissmill-Tower spaltet Zürich" (in German). Limmattaler Zeitung . Retrieved 2016-05-19.

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