Inglis elevator row is a row of five grain elevators standing in a row from south to north alongside the former Canadian Pacific Railway

Canadian Pacific Railway

The Canadian Pacific Railway , formerly also known as CP Rail between 1968 and 1996, is a historic Canadian Class I railway founded in 1881 and now operated by Canadian Pacific Railway Limited, which began operations as legal owner in a corporate restructuring in 2001...

 track bed, on the southeast edge of the village of Inglis

Inglis, Manitoba

Inglis is a small village located in the Rural Municipality of Shellmouth-Boulton, Manitoba, Canada, on Provincial Road 366 2 miles east of Hwy 83 between Russell and Roblin. Inglis is the closest town to the Asessippi Ski Area and the Lake of the Prairies...

, Manitoba

Manitoba

Manitoba is a Canadian prairie province with an area of . The province has over 110,000 lakes and has a largely continental climate because of its flat topography. Agriculture, mostly concentrated in the fertile southern and western parts of the province, is vital to the province's economy; other...

, Canada

Canada

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. Because so many grain elevators have been demolished throughout Western Canada

Western Canada

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, only two elevator rows have survived partial if not complete demolition. For example, Vulcan, Alberta

Vulcan, Alberta

Vulcan is a town located midway between the cities of Calgary and Lethbridge on Highway 23, in the prairies of southern Alberta, Canada. The population of the town was 1,940 in 2006, and the population of the county, which is also named Vulcan, was 3,718. The town's economy is mainly tourism and...

 once had a total of thirteen elevators and was one of the largest grain shipping points in Canada, but the elevators have been completely destroyed as of 2000.

Inglis has one of the last two elevator rows in all of Canada with a total of five elevators, the other being Warner, Alberta

Warner, Alberta

Warner is a village in southern Alberta, Canada. It is located in County of Warner, approximately 65 km south of the city of Lethbridge. Warner is a farming community. Warner is situated at the intersection of Highway 4 and Highway 36, about 38 km north of the Montana border and...

 with a total of six elevators. Warner's elevators have not been protected, but the elevators in Inglis have been protected as a National Historic Sites of Canada.

History and significance

The Inglis row consists of five wood-crib elevators as listed:

• Paterson Co. elevator, built in 1922
• Reliance elevators, built by Matheson-Lindsay in 1922 as a single elevator. The elevator was then taken over by Province Elevator Co. later becoming Reliance Elevators in the 1930s. By 1941 a new "twin" elevator was added for more space. Manitoba Pool bought the elevators in 1952 and lastly sold to United Grain Growers
  United Grain Growers
  United Grain Growers, or UGG, was a Canadian grain distributor. Founded in 1906 in Winnipeg, UGG was active in grain sales, crop inputs and livestock production services...
  
   in 1971. The elevators have since been fully restored back to their original signage as Reliance elevators.
• United grain growers elevator, originally built by United Grain Growers
  United Grain Growers
  United Grain Growers, or UGG, was a Canadian grain distributor. Founded in 1906 in Winnipeg, UGG was active in grain sales, crop inputs and livestock production services...
  
   in 1922 but replaced after destroyed by fire in 1925. Latter on horizontal balloon annexes were added for more space in 1949.
• National elevator, built by the Northern Elevator Co. in 1922 later taken over by National in the 1940s and then Cargill
  Cargill
  Cargill, Incorporated is a privately held, multinational corporation based in Minnetonka, Minnesota. Founded in 1865, it is now the largest privately held corporation in the United States in terms of revenue. If it were a public company, it would rank, as of 2011, number 13 on the Fortune 500,...
  
  and last Patterson Grain in 1979. The elevator has been completely restored as a gift shop.