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===Canada=== ====Alberta==== [[File:UCHV elevator.jpg|thumb|upright|Home Grain Co. wooden cribbed elevator at the [[Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village]] in [[Alberta]]]] [[File:Scandia 002a.jpg|thumb|upright|Alberta Wheat Pool elevator Ltd. wooden cribbed elevator at the [[Scandia Eastern Irrigation District Museum]] in [[Scandia, Alberta]]]] * [[Acadia Valley, Alberta|Acadia Valley]] β [[Prairie Elevator Museum]], former [[Alberta Wheat Pool]] converted into a [[tea house]] and museum<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mdacadia.ab.ca/av.htm |title=Acadia Valley elevator |date=2009-08-16 |access-date=2013-03-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090816195647/http://www.mdacadia.ab.ca/av.htm |archive-date=August 16, 2009}}</ref>{{Third-party inline|date=June 2024}} * [[Alberta Central Railroad Museum]] β former Alberta Wheat Pool, second-oldest standing grain elevator in Alberta, moved from [[Maskwacis|Hobbema]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abcentralrailway.com/ |title=Alberta Central Railroad Museum |publisher=Abcentralrailway.com |access-date=2013-03-28}}</ref>{{Third-party inline|date=June 2024}} * [[Castor, Alberta|Castor]] β former Alberta Pacific, restored into a museum<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.albertasource.ca/carmn/museums/m_cdm.html |title=Castor elevator |publisher=Albertasource.ca |date=2010-12-08 |access-date=2013-03-28}}</ref> * [[Big Valley, Alberta|Big Valley]] β Alberta Wheat Pool used as a museum complete with a train station and [[Railway roundhouse|roundhouse]]<ref>{{cite web |author=Dean Tiegs |url=http://www.canadiannorthern.ca/BigValley |title=Big Valley elevator |publisher=Canadiannorthern.ca |access-date=2013-03-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131003121527/http://www.canadiannorthern.ca/BigValley |archive-date=2013-10-03 }}</ref>{{Third-party inline|date=June 2024}} * [[Edmonton]] β [[Ritchie Mill]], former [[flour mill]] converted into restaurants, law offices, and [[Condominium (living space)|condominium]]s<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rmlo.com/ |title=Ritchie Mill β Edmonton |publisher=Rmlo.com |access-date=2013-03-28 |archive-date=2017-07-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170730143615/http://www.rmlo.com/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> * [[Heritage Acres Farm Museum]] β restored United Grain Growers elevator moved from [[Brocket, Alberta|Brocket]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.heritageacres.org/ |title=Heritage Acres |publisher=Heritage Acres |access-date=2013-03-28}}</ref>{{Third-party inline|date=June 2024}} * [[Heritage Park Historical Village]], former Security Elevator Co. Ltd. moved from [[Shonts, Alberta|Shonts]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.heritagepark.ca/ |title=Calgary Heritage Park |publisher=Heritagepark.ca |access-date=2013-03-28}}</ref>{{Third-party inline|date=June 2024}} * [[Leduc, Alberta|Leduc]] β former Alberta Wheat Pool saved from demolition now a museum<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.leducelevator.com/ |title=Alberta Legacy Development Society β Leduc |publisher=Leducelevator.com |access-date=2013-03-28}}</ref>{{Third-party inline|date=June 2024}} * [[Mayerthorpe, Alberta|Mayerthorpe]] β 1966 Federal Grain Co., now an interpretive center<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mayerthorpe.ca/visiting |title=Mayerthorpe elevator |publisher=Mayerthorpe.ca |date=2012-12-06 |access-date=2013-03-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160404224104/http://www.mayerthorpe.ca/visiting/ |archive-date=2016-04-04 |url-status=dead }}</ref>{{Third-party inline|date=June 2024}} * [[Meeting Creek, Alberta|Meeting Creek]] β a refurbished Alberta Wheat Pool, Pacific Grain elevator and CN train station<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.canadiannorthern.ca/ |title=Meeting Creek elevator |publisher=Canadiannorthern.ca |access-date=2013-03-28}}</ref>{{Third-party inline|date=June 2024}} * [[Nanton, Alberta|Nanton]] β [[Canadian Grain Elevator Discovery Centre]], three elevators saved from demolition and preserved to educate visitors about the town's, and Alberta's, agricultural history<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nantonelevators.com/ |title=Canadian Grain Elevator Discovery Center β Nanton |publisher=Nantonelevators.com |access-date=2013-03-28}}</ref>{{Third-party inline|date=June 2024}} * [[Radway, Alberta|Radway]] β [[Krause Milling Co.]] restored into a museum<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.townlife.com/1/businesses/6220/289/Radway-Krause-Grain-Elevator |title=Radway elevator |publisher=Townlife.com |date=2008-09-24 |access-date=2013-03-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161224061206/http://www.townlife.com/1/businesses/6220/289/Radway-Krause-Grain-Elevator |archive-date=2016-12-24 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * [[Scandia, Alberta|Scandia]] β [[Scandia Eastern Irrigation District Museum]], 1920s Alberta Wheat Pool and stockyard now a museum * [[South Peace Centennial Museum]], United Grain Growers moved from [[Albright, Alberta|Albright]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.spcm.ca/ |title=South Peace Centennial Museum |publisher=Spcm.ca |access-date=2013-03-28}}</ref>{{Third-party inline|date=June 2024}}{{Third-party inline|date=June 2024}} * [[Spruce Grove]] β [[Spruce Grove Grain Elevator Museum]], former Alberta Wheat Pool, now a museum * [[St. Albert, Alberta|St. Albert]] β [[St. Albert Grain Elevator Park]],<ref>[http://www.artsheritage.ca/heritagesites/ St. Albert Grain Elevator Park] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090721075235/http://www.artsheritage.ca/heritagesites/ |date=July 21, 2009}}</ref> a 1906 Alberta Grain Co. and 1929 Alberta Wheat Pool Elevators now restored as a historic park<ref>[http://www.artsheritage.ca/heritagesites/ St. Albert elevator] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090721075235/http://www.artsheritage.ca/heritagesites/ |date=July 21, 2009}}</ref>{{Third-party inline|date=June 2024}} * [[Stettler, Alberta|Stettler]] β a 1920 Parrish and Heimbecker grain elevator, feed mill, and coal shed, last to stand in Alberta, now protected and restored as a museum<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.boomtowntrail.com/communities/display_town.php?town=Stettler |title=Stettler elevator |publisher=Boomtowntrail.com |access-date=2013-03-28 |archive-date=2012-03-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120301120419/http://www.boomtowntrail.com/communities/display_town.php?town=Stettler |url-status=dead }}</ref> * [[Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village]] β former Home Grain Co. moved from [[Bellis, Alberta|Bellis]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tapor.ualberta.ca/heritagevillage/ |title=Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village |publisher=Tapor.ualberta.ca |access-date=2013-03-28}}</ref> ====British Columbia==== * [[Creston, British Columbia|Creston]] β former [[Alberta Wheat Pool]] (1936) and [[United Grain Growers]] (1937) elevators on the edge of the downtown core in the [[Creston Valley]]. The two buildings were purchased by the [[Columbia Basin Trust]] in 2018. The wheat pool elevator was extensively refurbished and now includes an art gallery. The UGG elevator is beyond feasible conservation efforts however, and CBT has begun to deconstruct it in 2024, with care taken to re-purpose as much of the building materials as possible, including valuable first-growth timbers and historic equipment. <ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nelsonstar.com/e-editions?iid=f16f9c2c-8be3-45e8-bbaf-5061548f66c8&headline=V2VzdCBLb290ZW5heSBBZHZlcnRpc2VyLCBKdW5lIDIwLCAyMDI0&doc_id=240620102805-b4b05146e9fea20a53c1be1de3776f9e | title=E-Editions }}</ref> ====Manitoba==== [[File:Inglis grain elevators.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Inglis elevator row]], [[Inglis, Manitoba]]]] * [[Inglis, Manitoba|Inglis]] β [[Inglis Grain Elevators National Historic Site]], last surviving elevator row in [[Manitoba]] with a total of four elevators. Now designated and protected as a [[National Historic Site of Canada]] * [[Niverville, Manitoba|Niverville]] β Western Canada's first grain elevator, erected by [[William Hespeler]] in 1879<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WG8pspLIukMC&q=william+hespeler&pg=PA475 |title=Dictionary of Canadian Biography: De 1921 Γ 1930 - Ramsay Cook, Jean Hamelin |access-date=2013-03-28|isbn=9780802090874 |last1=Cook |first1=Ramsay |year=2005 |publisher=University of Toronto Press }}</ref> ====Quebec==== * Silo No. 5, [[Montreal]] β This grain elevator was completed in four stages from 1906 to 1959 and was abandoned in 1994. With the demolition of Silo No. 1 and Silo No. 2, Silo No. 5 is now, along with the Old Port's conveyor pier tower, the last vestige of Old Montreal's 20th-century harbour panorama.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.patrimoine-culturel.gouv.qc.ca/rpcq/detail.do?methode=consulter&id=115142&type=bien#.XNbZCtNKjOQ|language=fr|title=Silo Γ grain no 5|website=RΓ©pertoire du patrimoine - culturel du QuΓ©bec|access-date=21 November 2020|author=Laure Emery|date=2013}}</ref> ====Saskatchewan==== * [[Sukanen Ship Pioneer Village and Museum]] β former Victoria β McCabe moved from [[Mawer, Saskatchewan|Mawer]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sukanenmuseum.ca/frames.html |title=Sukanen Ship Pioneer Village & Museum |publisher=Sukanenmuseum.ca |access-date=2013-03-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130218030233/http://www.sukanenmuseum.ca/frames.html |archive-date=2013-02-18 }}</ref> * [[North Battleford Western Development Museum]], former Saskatchewan Wheat Pool moved from Keatley<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tpcs.gov.sk.ca/GrainElevatorStudy2010 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2012-04-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120622031320/http://www.tpcs.gov.sk.ca/GrainElevatorStudy2010 |archive-date=2012-06-22 }}</ref>
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