Flour and Grain Millers

My ancestors on my mothers side were millers in Loddiswell, Devon.

When my 2x great grandfather came to Canada he found work right away at one of the mills in Montreal.

I wonder if perhaps he worked at the Montreal Glenora (Ogilvie) Flour Mill in August 1874 when there was a fire - one of many fires that broke out in flour mills. 

In doing some research I came across some info and lists of mills.




Relevant Links


Database of Mills

Directory of the milling industry in Canada: containing alphabetical lists of flour mills, cereal mills, grist mills, and chopping mills, indexed as to provinces, towns 1915

Milling and Grain News, USA

Report of the Board of commissioners of the first Millers' international exhibition, held in Cincinnati, 1881

About Canadian wheat facts and figures : with a directory of millers, shippers and buyers of flour, grain and produce, 1899

Flour Mills in Buffalo NY 1948

The technics of flour milling. A handbook for millers, 1904

Report on the operations of flour-milling companies in Canada,1918