Cartwright

Tractor and grain elevator, Cartwright, MB, Aug 2014. Contributed by Steve Boyko.
Tractor and grain elevator, Cartwright, MB, Aug 2014. Contributed by Steve Boyko.

There is one grain elevator in Cartwright, Manitoba – a former Manitoba Pool elevator built in the mid-1980s. It is now privately owned.

Town of Cartwright, MB, Aug 2014. Contributed by Steve Boyko.
Town of Cartwright, MB, Aug 2014. Contributed by Steve Boyko.

The first Pool elevator in Cartwright was built in 1927.

Cartwright, MB grain elevator, Aug 2014. Contributed by Steve Boyko.
Cartwright, MB grain elevator, Aug 2014. Contributed by Steve Boyko.
Grain elevator in Cartwright, MB, September 1995.
Grain elevator in Cartwright, MB, September 1995. Copyright by Donald Hamilton.

Cartwright was served by the CP Napinka subdivision, but lost its rail service when that subdivision was cut back to near Killarney. Cartwright was originally about 2 miles north of where it is today, but when the CPR built the railway south of the town in 1885, the town was moved.

Track side of grain elevator, Cartwright, MB, Aug 2014. Contributed by Steve Boyko.
Track side of grain elevator, Cartwright, MB, Aug 2014. Contributed by Steve Boyko.

See Also

  • A lovely print of the Cartwright grain elevator in the National Gallery of Canada, taken in 1932 by Orest Semchishen.
  • The Southern Manitoba Review, published in Cartwright

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