Ogilvie Elevator at Rosser, Manitoba

In 1900 the Ogilvie Flour Mills Company Ltd. built a grain elevator on the south side of the railway just west of the CPR station.

The early records indicated that a different grain buyer was employed almost every year. In discussing this with personnel at Ogilvie’s, it was decided that the agent was only hired for the harvest season, probably due to limited business. The early settlers kept stock and farmed with horses and mules which required more grain for domestic use. Another factor was that there were fewer farmers then with less land under cultivation…

As the farmers prospered and farms became mechanized, grain was hauled in trucks, which also opened up a new field of business, and then the Ogilvie elevator was used extensively.

A new elevator was built in 1935 with a capacity of 34,000 bushels. The old one was wrecked in May, 1949. Three wooden annexes were built in 1950. Grain buyers were: in 1940-47, P.E. McCarthy and 1948-59, Gerald Hallick.

Rosser Cooperative Elevator Association came into existence on November 26, 1959 when the Manitoba Pool Elevators purchased the elevator from Ogilvie Flour Mills Company Ltd.

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