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Lake of the Woods House
(Mayberry Gallery)
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Opportunities had come with the building of the transcontinental
railway for new businesses to store, export and process
prairie agricultural produce. The high-quality Five Roses
brand of flour produced from western Canadian grain helped
the Lake of The Woods Milling Company become the second
largest milling company in Canada at the turn of the century.
The company was established in 1887 by several Montreal investors
who held interests in the CPR and wanted to increase use
of the railway. The Lake of the Woods Milling Co. expanded
over time to control bakeries, bag factories and rival mills
throughout Canada. In 1954 most of the firm’s stock
was acquired by a major competitor, the Ogilvie Flour Mills
Company.
