Updates

New Elevators for a New Year

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Grain elevator at Menzie, Manitoba

We wish you a very belated “happy new year” for 2022. As a late gift for the new year, here are some “new to us” grain elevators to share, and some updates on existing elevators. We have been scanning more of the Donald Hamilton collection of grain elevator photos, as well as acquiring other images, and we have lots to share. Here are the new elevators for Grain Elevators of Canada, by province or state:

Manitoba

Saskatchewan

Alberta

Minnesota

North Dakota

Growing!

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As of today, there are 581 towns featured on this site. 581! It’s thanks to you, the contributors, that we’ve reached this incredible number. That’s 581 pages featuring one or more grain elevator photographs. There are still plenty of towns that had or have elevators that aren’t here yet… so please contact me if you can fill in some blanks!

Here are some statistics.

  • Saskatchewan has the most towns featured, at 275, followed by Manitoba at 178 and Alberta at 113.
  • The most common first letter of towns featured is “B” followed by “S” and “C”.
  • Only Saskatchewan has towns featured starting with “Y” or “Z”, while Manitoba has the only “Q” (Quadra).

Here’s the spreadsheet, for the data nerds like me.

End of April Updates

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The grain elevators in Elva, MB, Aug 2014. Contributed by Steve Boyko.
The grain elevators in Elva, MB, Aug 2014. Contributed by Steve Boyko.

There were lots of updates and new grain elevators on this site from mid March to now.

I’ve been moving pages from the Manitoba Grain Elevators site to here in preparation for retiring the MGE site. I think I will have to renew the domain name for one more year, but most of the pages on that site redirect to here now.

Thanks for reading, and special thanks to our contributors for submitting photos!

Alberta Grain Elevator Update

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Barons, AB grain elevators, 1913.
Barons, AB grain elevators, 1913.

RETROactive has posted an updated list of Alberta grain elevators. According to their list, there are 110 wooden grain elevators remaining on the railway rights-of-way.

You can see photos and descriptions of Alberta’s grain elevators here on Grain Elevators of Canada. We’re always adding more – eight in March, including Cardston, Carstairs and Trochu!

See grain elevators in Alberta

Mid March Updates

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Site Growth
Site Growth

There have been lots of additions in the first 11 days of March, 2018! Thanks to Adam Bouvier, Gary Rich, Marc Simpson and Michael Truman for their contributions this month.

The graph at right shows the growth in the site’s size since its resurrection in late November 2017. We have well over 300 grain elevators online, with more to come!

As always, your contributions are welcome – just email me at steve@traingeek.ca and we can get started.

New elevators this month:

 

February 2018 Contributions

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I want to thank Gary Rich, BW Bandy and Adam Bouvier for their latest contributions to Grain Elevators of Canada! Click on the elevator(s) below to see the full page with more photos and more information.

Grain elevator in Bardo, AB. Copyright by BW Bandy.
Grain elevator in Bardo, AB. Copyright by BW Bandy.

The Bladworth, SK grain elevator, Feb 2018. Contributed by Adam Bouvier.
The Bladworth, SK grain elevator, Feb 2018. Contributed by Adam Bouvier.

Grain elevator in Chamberlain, SK, Feb 2018. Contributed by Adam Bouvier.
Grain elevator in Chamberlain, SK, Feb 2018. Contributed by Adam Bouvier.

The grain elevator in Churchill, Manitoba, Oct 2006. Copyright by Gary Rich.
The grain elevator in Churchill, Manitoba, Oct 2006. Copyright by Gary Rich.

Craik, SK grain elevator, Feb 2018. Contributed by Adam Bouvier.
Craik, SK grain elevator, Feb 2018. Contributed by Adam Bouvier.

Grain elevator and annex at Davidson, SK, Feb 2018. Contributed by Adam Bouvier.
Grain elevator and annex at Davidson, SK, Feb 2018. Contributed by Adam Bouvier.

Grain elevators in Hazlet, Saskatchewan, Jan 2007. Copyright by Gary Rich.
Grain elevators in Hazlet, Saskatchewan, Jan 2007. Copyright by Gary Rich.

Thanks for contributing! If you would like to contribute, email me at steve@traingeek.ca with photos that you have taken and we can put them up!

 

New contributions

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I wanted to highlight a few new contributions to the site, from BW Bandy and Marc Simpson. Click on the photos to see a larger version!

Grain elevator near Loverna, SK. Contributed by BW Bandy.
Grain elevator near Loverna, SK. Contributed by BW Bandy.

Grain elevator in The Pas, MB, Apr 2000. Contributed by Marc Simpson.
Grain elevator in The Pas, MB, Apr 2000. Contributed by Marc Simpson.

The grain elevator in Neville, SK, Nov 2008. Contributed by Marc Simpson.
The grain elevator in Neville, SK, Nov 2008. Contributed by Marc Simpson.