Parrish & Heimbecker Limited is a Canadian

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company with about 1,500 employees across

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and the northern

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. The company has several divisions including flour milling, feed milling, grain marketing, transportation and logistics. It is a private, family-owned business founded in 1909. This Canadian-owned, vertically integrated business is one of the largest full-service grain-handling and crop-input supply companies in Canada. It is the largest Canadian-owned milling company in Canada, with animal nutrition, poultry farming and food-processing divisions in Western and Eastern Canada. In 2002, the company acquired a

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at Dutton Siding, Manitoba from

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. The elevator is located between

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and Grandview.

History

Parrish and Heimbecker was begun in 1909 by

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and

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. Until 1918, the firm bought and sold grain on the

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, but did not operate

s. In 1918, P&H bought ten elevators from Louis Strong and Frederick Dowler, who were

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grain brokers. After buying more elevators, by 1920, P&H had 20 elevators.

Network of Canadian grain elevators and terminals

In 2011, P&H had approximately 32 grain elevators in Canada including twelve grain elevators in Ontario that handle a variety of Canadian agricultural products such as wheat, corn, barley, soybeans, oats, distillers grains, IP soybeans and navy beans.

Ships

In the 1980s P&H bought out thr bankrupt Soo River Company. They maintained a fleet of ships until they were sold to Canada Steamship Lines. P&H named most of their ships after trees, like Mapleglen. CSL now uses those names. In 2019, P&H purchased 10 grain elevators from Louis Dreyfus Company Canada ULC

Divisions

Other divisions of Parrish and Heimbecker include: - Th
P&H Milling Group
focused on Flour Milling and Pea Proteins
New Life Mills
specializing in Animal Nutrition

References

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External links

Parrish & Heimbecker Limited
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