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Gone from the skyline, parts of Prairie sentinels live on
More than 5,000 wooden elevators are gone but some of their beautiful old-growth timbers survive
Reading Time: 2 minutes They’re mostly gone now, but parts of some of them will live on. Alberta’s first wooden grain elevator was constructed in 1895 and at the peak in the 1930s, there were nearly 1,800 of them. Today, there are only 88 left, more falling victim to demolition every year. More than 5,000 wooden grain elevators across […] Read more