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Inglis Grain Elevator Row

Inglis Grain Elevator Row is a Manitoba Heritage Council commemoration in Inglis, Manitoba.

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Grain elevators are Prairie icons, powerful, stately reminders of our agricultural history. Almost every Manitoba community had at least one, and large centres often boasted a whole set, lined up along the rail track. The five elevators in Inglis are remarkable. They are not only the last example in Manitoba of an elevator row, they are also the best remaining example in Canada. In fact, in 1996 the line was declared a site of national historic significance. Built over the course of forty years, during the "Golden Age" of grain elevator construction (1900–1940), the Inglis elevators are a virtual textbook case of Manitoba's elevator history. They represent the full range of ownership types: from the large Canadian and American-backed companies, the smaller family-owned concerns, to farmer co-operatives. They also have survived largely unaltered, each boasting intact internal workings.

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Les élévateurs à grain sont des emblèmes des Prairies, de puissants et imposants témoignages de notre passé agricole. Presque toutes les collectivités manitobaines avaient au moins un élévateur à grain et les centres de plus grande taille en avaient souvent plusieurs, alignés le long de la voie ferrée. Les cinq élévateurs d’Inglis sont remarquables. En plus de représenter le dernier exemple d’élévateurs en rangée au Manitoba, ils en sont également le meilleur exemple au Canada. En fait, en 1996, la voie a été déclarée site historique national d’importance. Construits sur une période de quarante ans, pendant l’âge d’or de la construction des élévateurs à grains (1900 à 1940), les élévateurs d’Inglis expriment toute l’histoire de ces édifices au Manitoba. On y trouve des élévateurs ayant appartenu à tous les types de propriétaires, qu’il s’agisse de grosses compagnies américaines et canadiennes, de familles, ou de coopératives agricoles. Ces structures sont pour ainsi dire inchangées et les mécanismes internes de chacune sont encore intacts.

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Plaque text and location: Manitoba Heritage Council Commemorative Plaques, Historic Resources Branch, Government of Manitoba, as the Branch publishes them on its plaque pages. The text is the Manitoba Heritage Council’s text as the Branch publishes it; the pin on this page is ours, worked out from the location the Branch gives and marked approximate. Contains information from the Government of Manitoba, licensed under the OpenMB Information and Data Use License (Manitoba.ca/OpenMB)
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