Editing Grain elevator (section)

==Elevator row==
{{See also|Inglis Grain Elevators National Historic Site}}

In Canada, the term "elevator row" refers to a row of four or more [[corn crib|wood-crib]] [[prairie]] grain elevators.

In the early pioneer days of [[Western Canada]]'s prairie towns, when a good farming spot was settled, many people wanted to make money by building their own grain elevators. This brought in droves of private grain companies. Towns boasted dozens of elevator companies, which all stood in a row along the railway tracks. If a town were lucky enough to have two railways, it was to be known as the next [[Montreal]]. Many elevator rows had two or more elevators of the same company. Small towns bragged of their large elevator rows in promotional pamphlets to attract settlers. With so much competition in the 1920s, consolidation began almost immediately, and many small companies were merged or absorbed into larger companies.

In the mid-1990s, with the cost of grain so low, many private elevator companies once again had to merge, this time causing thousands of "prairie sentinels" to be torn down. Because so many grain elevators have been torn down, Canada has only two surviving elevator rows; one located in [[Inglis, Manitoba]], and the other in [[Warner, Alberta]]. The [[Inglis Grain Elevators National Historic Site]] has been protected as a [[National Historic Sites of Canada]]. The [[Warner elevator row]] is, as of 2019, not designated a historic site, and is still in use as commercial grain elevators.