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…– Three Hills Alberta. Prairie sentinels – Delia Alberta. A prairie sentinel falls – Torrington Alberta. If you wish more information on this place, by all means contact us! Date: January 2013. Location: Lyalta, AB. _________________________ BIGDoer.com: Doing it Different! Something to say in private? Click here to: Reach Us!… (Search hits: 1 in title, 8 in body, 0 in comments.)

…you!) Mining history’s a passion… Coal Mine Fan House (Alberta Rockies). Monsters of Metal: Diplomat Mine. Crowsnest Pass Coal Mine Fan House. If you wish more information on what’s seen here, don’t hesitate to: contact us! Date of Adventure: May, 2022. Location(s): Alberta Badlands. Article references and thanks: Alberta Energy… (Search hits: 1 in title, 8 in body, 0 in comments.)

…and Connie.” Lori Miller. Related posts… Prairie Sentinels: Camrose Alberta. Grain Elevators of DeWinton. Creston BC Grain Elevators. If you wish more information on what’s seen here, don’t hesitate to: contact us! Date of Adventure: May 2020. Location(s): The Alberta Plains. Article thanks: Books – In the Bend of the… (Search hits: 1 in title, 8 in body, 0 in comments.)

…here… Bridge hunting – Bullpound Alberta. To see some other reports from the Red Deer River valley, follow these links… Stirling Mine – Commander Mine – Nacmine Alberta. Abandoned Murray Mine. If you’d like to know more about this place, by all means contact us! Date: May 2013. Location: Finnegan,… (Search hits: 1 in title, 7 in body, 5 in comments.)

…the very photogenic ghost town of Dorothy Alberta, which is worth a visit. There is an abandoned grain elevator there, one of only a handful painted in Alberta Pacific colours, along with two very nice churches. Further west is the historic Atlas Mine, a museum, along with the very cool… (Search hits: 1 in title, 7 in body, 3 in comments.)

…Grain (in 1943 and 1967 respectively). In the early 1970s, as was mentioned, 1972 to be exact, it was folded into the respective Wheat Pool of the province the elevator stood in – so Alberta elevators became Alberta Wheat Pool, Saskatchewan became Saskatchewan Wheat Pool and Manitoba elevators, Manitoba Pool… (Search hits: 1 in title, 7 in body, 2 in comments.)

…ones as well… Prairie sentinels – Beiseker Alberta. CPR Calgary trail station. Prairie sentinels – Irricana Alberta (the next town south of Beiseker) If you’d like to know more about what you’ve seen here, by all means contact us! Date: June, 2013. Location: Beiseker, AB. _________________________ BIGDoer.com: Doing it Different!… (Search hits: 1 in title, 7 in body, 1 in comments.)

Starland Alberta. Not a town. Nothing more than a siding along a former rail line, the only thing here, a lone grain elevator. It’s relatively modern one, a bit unusual in some ways, which we’ll touch on soon enough. Think of it as a transitional design of sorts, from the… (Search hits: 1 in title, 7 in body, 0 in comments.)

…to perhaps 300 people. At one time coal mining was a big employer in the area. To see some other elevators we’ve explored, go here… Ogilvie grain elevator – Wrentham Alberta. Prairie Sentinels – Cadillac Saskatchewan. Prairie Sentinels – Arrowwood Alberta. If you wish more information on what you’ve seen… (Search hits: 1 in title, 7 in body, 0 in comments.)

…was acquired by the Alberta Wheat Pool in in 1972 – Federal had elevators outside of Alberta too and these were taken over by the Saskatchewan and Manitoba Pools respectively. Don’t forget to LIKE or SHARE this post. Closed in the early 1980s it was later bought by Andrew Farms… (Search hits: 1 in title, 7 in body, 0 in comments.)

…grain elevators nearby, go here… Mossleigh elevators. Grain elevators and ghosts southeast of Calgary. To see some other grain elevators we shot in the later half of the 1990s, follow these links… Prairie sentinels – Carbon Alberta. Stavely Alberta. A prairie sentinel falls – Torrington Alberta. This historic site is… (Search hits: 1 in title, 7 in body, 0 in comments.)

…from Carbon was the town of Sharples Alberta and to see a report on it, go here… Sharples Alberta ghost town. Also further down the same railway line was the coal town of Nacmine Alberta and to see an article on the Commander Mine located there, click the link below…… (Search hits: 1 in title, 7 in body, 0 in comments.)

…well, but it was gone by the late 1980s. This one was inherited from a predecessor company (Federal Grain, nee, Alberta Pacific Grain). To see some other grain elevators we’ve visited, follow these links… Prairie sentinels – Big Valley Alberta. Prairie sentinels – Queenstown Alberta. Grain elevators and ghosts southeast… (Search hits: 1 in title, 7 in body, 0 in comments.)

…Nights. If you feel like chatting or want more information on what you see here feel free to contact us! Date of Adventure: September, 2020. Location(s): Andrew, AB. Article references and thanks: Orthodoxcanada.ca, hermis.alberta.ca (Alberta Register of Historic Places), plus old phone books @ Calgary Public Library and the Medicine… (Search hits: 1 in title, 7 in body, 0 in comments.)

Here’s the last wood prairie sentinel in Camrose Alberta, a type of building once common out in grain country, but to find one standing today is something rare. That’s doubly so for a grain elevator still in use, as this one is. While a late model example, from the 1960s,… (Search hits: 1 in title, 7 in body, 0 in comments.)

…Go here: Contact Us! Date of adventure: December, 2023. Location: Coleman, Alberta. Article references and thanks: Alberta Energy Regulator, Ian McKenzie. Crowsnest Heritage Initiative, HistoricPlaces.ca and Alberta Culture, Historic Resources Management Branch. _________________________ BIGDoer.com: Doing it Different! Something to say in private? Click here to: Reach Us! NEWS! – First… (Search hits: 1 in title, 7 in body, 0 in comments.)