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Manitoba Pool Elevator (Port Arthur)

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Manitoba Pool Elevator (Port Arthur) was a grain company in Fort William.[1]

People listed with this employer

Person Occupation Year Source
Walter Schmidt (millwright) Millwright 1950 p. 307[1]

In Papers and Records (1977)

Manitoba Pool Elevator No. 2 occupies the site of King's Elevator, the first grain elevator in Thunder Bay, and its first nine concrete tanks (January 1904) were the first poured-concrete storage bins in Canada, built with a curved wooden form jacked upward.[2]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Henderson's Directory of Fort William and Port Arthur, 1950 (Henderson Directories Limited), p. 307.
  2. ↑ Patricia Vervoort, "Meaning in Old Buildings", Papers and Records, vol. V (Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, 1977), p. 10. Archived: datum.locker.