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In 1921, Pioneer had expanded to over 100 country elevators. In 1931, forty-four elevators of the Saskatchewan and Western Elevator companies were amalgamated into Pioneer; these elevators had been operated by the Richardsons since the mid-1920s. In 1947, Pioneer acquired twenty-three elevators from the failed Reliance Grain Company.
Pioneer Village is a subway station on the Line 1 Yonge–University of the Toronto subway. It is located under the intersection of Northwest Gate and Steeles Avenue , at the city boundaries of Toronto and Vaughan , Ontario , Canada.
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.
They are the topic of numerous prairie landscapes and photographs. The Wheat Pool calendar map or Country Elevator System calendar maps were a mainstay of many pioneer households. These calendar maps depicted the networking of the early CNR and CPR rail lines, the many early incorporated areas, and the locations of the grain elevators. The ...
It services approximately 21,000 households and has since been expanding across Atlantic Canada. [6] In 2014 Parkland Fuel agreed to buy Pioneer Energy for $378 million. 393 gas stations (148 with the Pioneer brand name) in Ontario and Manitoba were part of the initial deal. [7]
The Inglis elevator row is a row of five wooden grain elevators located alongside the former Canadian Pacific Railway track bed, in the village of Inglis, Manitoba, Canada. Because so many traditional country elevators have been demolished throughout Western Canada , the Inglis elevator row preserves rare examples of a formerly common sight ...
Map showing the territory of the National Transcontinental Railway, in Quebec and Ontario (very pale blue along the top of the map). The completion of construction of Canada's first transcontinental railway, the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) on November 7, 1885, preceded a tremendous economic expansion and immigration boom in western Canada during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but ...
Canadian Northern Portable Train Station for Debden and later Brisbin, Saskatchewan. The Canadian Northern Railway was established, on January 13, 1899 [2] and all railway companies owned by Mackenzie and Mann (primarily in Manitoba) were consolidated into the new entity.