The town of Nanton, Alberta has three grain elevators – a twinned former Alberta Wheat Pool elevator, a former Pioneer elevator, and the Nanton Seed Cleaning plant.
The Pioneer elevator was built in 1929 for the Independent Grain Company Ltd. It became a Pioneer elevator when that company bought all 22 of Independent’s elevators in 1954. It was shut down in 2001.
These elevators now form the Canadian Grain Elevator Discovery Centre.
![Green and red grain elevators framed by autumn leaves.](https://www.grainelevators.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Grain-Elevator-Nanton-AB-Aidan-Wakely-Mulroney-1-2.jpg)
![Grain elevators in Nanton, AB, May 2013. Contributed by Bill Jex.](https://www.grainelevators.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Nanton-AB-May-2013-4-1024x777.jpg)
![Grain elevator in Nanton, AB, June 2018. Contributed by Lisa James.](https://www.grainelevators.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Nanton-Grain-Elevators-20180618-Lisa-James-3-819x1024.jpg)
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