Licensed Grain Elevators and Warehouses in Western Canada, 1911-1912

1911-1912 licensed grain elevators and warehouses from the Manitoba Grain Inspection Division. The data was generated via XSL transformation of OCR scans of the original list, with the transformation code available on GitHub. The dataset was last updated on the Borealis Harvested Dataverse platform in February 2024.

Use Cases

• Mapping historical grain infrastructure locations based on the list of licensed elevators.
• Analyzing the density and distribution of grain storage facilities in Western Canada for the 1911-1912 period.
• Studying the regulatory landscape of the grain industry through the licensing data from the Manitoba Grain Inspection Division.

Strengths

• Provides a specific temporal snapshot of agricultural infrastructure from 1911-1912.
• Data creation process is documented, with the XSL transformation code available on GitHub.
• Dataset was updated on the platform in February 2024.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Borealis Harvested Dataverse

Collection Method

XSL transformation performed on OCR scans of the original 1911/12 list.

Time Range

1911-1912

Freshness

Last updated 2024-02-29 23:42:37; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Western Canada, specifically the Manitoba Grain Inspection Division.