MHM The Reliance Grain Company - Inglis MB
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PeterNoG
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This Manitoba Historical Marker is in front of the Reliance Grain Elevator, on elevator row in Inglis, Manitoba.
Waymark Code: WMMAQN
Location: Manitoba, Canada
Date Posted: 08/23/2014
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The elevators, from north to south, are N.M. Paterson & Son elevator, two Reliance elevators, Northern Elevator and United Grain Growers elevator
Marker Name: The Reliance Grain Company
Languages: English & French
Location:
Railway Street south of Anzac Avenue
Inglis, Manitoba.
Marker Text:
The Reliance Grain Company
The Murphy Foundation
Gabriel B. Murphy was a successful grain and livestock farmer near Carberry, Manitoba before forming the G.B. Murphy Company in 1903. After acquiring several smaller grain-buying operations, the company was renamed the Province Elevators Company Limited. By 1922 this company owned 48 country elevators. In 1923, Province Elevators purchased the Reliance Grain Company, a subsiduary of Peavey Company of Minneapolis. The Reliance Grain Company eventually owned 254 elevators, two of which form part of the Inglis row of elevators. In 1948, elevators of the Reliance line were sold to various grain companies.
In 2003, the Murphy Foundation contributed $100,000 to complete the restoration of the two former Reliance Elevators at this site. This plaque recognizes that contribution and the role of Reliance Grain in the history of Inglis.
Website: [Web Link]
Link to HistoricPlaces.ca or mhs.mb.ca: [Web Link]
Agency: Not listed
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