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List Of Grain Elevators
List of notable grain elevators: Canada ''Alberta'' * Acadia Valley - Prairie Elevator Museum, former Alberta Wheat Pool converted into a tea house / museum. * Alberta Central Railroad Museum - former Alberta Wheat Pool, second oldest standing grain elevator in Alberta, moved from Hobbema. * Andrew - former Alberta Wheat Pool, restored into a museum. * Castor - former Alberta Pacific, restored into a museum. * Big Valley - Alberta Wheat Pool used as a museum complete with a train station and Roundhouse. * Edmonton - Ritchie Mill, former flour mill converted into restaurants, law offices and condos. * Esther - former Alberta Wheat Pool, restored into a museum. * Haselwood Mill - Alberta's oldest seed cleaning mill, operated from the 1930s to 1960s. * Heritage Acres Farm Museum - restored United Grain Growers elevator moved from Brocket. * Heritage Park Historical Village, former Security Elevator Co. LTD. moved from Shonts * Kinuso - United Grain Growers with Original UGG L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grain Elevator
A grain elevator is a facility designed to stockpile or store grain. In the grain trade, the term "grain elevator" also describes a tower containing a bucket elevator or a pneumatic conveyor, which scoops up grain from a lower level and deposits it in a silo or other storage facility. In most cases, the term "grain elevator" also describes the entire elevator complex, including receiving and testing offices, weighbridges, and storage facilities. It may also mean organizations that operate or control several individual elevators, in different locations. In Australia, the term describes only the lifting mechanism. Before the advent of the grain elevator, grain was usually handled in bags rather than in bulk (large quantities of loose grain). Dart's Elevator was a major innovation. It was invented by Joseph Dart, a merchant, and Robert Dunbar, an engineer, in 1842 and 1843, in Buffalo, New York. Using the steam-powered flour mills of Oliver Evans as their model, they invented th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paradise Valley, Alberta
Paradise Valley is a village in central Alberta, Canada. It is east of Highway 897 approximately south of Kitscoty. The economic base of the village is largely agricultural. Nearby hog operations and the Co-Op seed cleaning plant also contribute to local production. History Paradise Valley has a long and rich agricultural history. The town was once host to six grain elevators along the rail line. Now, only one still stands, having been converted to the Climb Thru Time Museum. The project was spearheaded by Parke Dobson and Don Purser, as well as numerous others in the community. The first school in the town was opened in 1930. Climate Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Village of Paradise Valley had a population of 153 living in 57 of its 75 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 179. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. In the 2016 Census of Population conducted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Grain Elevator Discovery Centre
The Canadian Grain Elevator Discovery Centre is a set of restored grain elevators located in Nanton, Alberta, Nanton, Alberta, Canada. The centre's goal is to preserve examples of old grain elevators to educate visitors about the town's, and Alberta's, agricultural history. History The northern twin elevators were built in 1927 to a traditional arrangement with an office building separated from the driveway and elevator by a raised access platform. It decommissioned in 2000 under the Alberta Wheat Pool. The southern elevator was built in 1929, gained a balloon annex in 1956, and was extensively remodeled in 1981. The elevators were served by the Canadian Pacific Railway's MacLeod subdivision until the subdivision's abandonment and track removal in 2002. The local "Save One" historical society was formed to preserve at least one of the elevators from demolition. The society raised enough funds in three years to purchase the three elevators and the land they stood on. The restorat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nanton, Alberta
Nanton is a town in southern Alberta, Canada. Nanton was named after Sir Augustus Meredith Nanton of Winnipeg (1860–1925) who directed firms which offered financing for farms and ranches throughout the west. It is located south of Calgary at the junction of Highway 2 and Highway 533. Nanton was historically known as "Tap Town", after providing passing motorists with free water supplied from the foothills via a stand tap on the northbound highway. This water was one of the first to be bottled and sold in Canada, resulting in the creation of Nanton Water & Soda Ltd, still a thriving business in the town today. Traditionally a farming and ranching community, Nanton is now a popular tourist destination. Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Town of Nanton had a population of 2,167 living in 953 of its 1,004 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 2,181. With a land area of , it had a population density of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meeting Creek, Alberta
Meeting Creek is a hamlet in central Alberta, Canada within Camrose County, located west of Highway 56, approximately south of Camrose. Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Meeting Creek had a population of living in 3 of its 12 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 39. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. As a designated place in the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Meeting Creek had a population of 39 living in 16 of its 17 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2011 population of 20. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2016. See also *List of communities in Alberta *List of designated places in Alberta *List of hamlets in Alberta Hamlets in the province of Alberta, Canada, are unincorporated communities administered by, and within the boundaries of, specialized municipalities or rural municipalities ( municipal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayerthorpe, Alberta
Mayerthorpe is a town in central Alberta, Canada. It is approximately northwest of Edmonton at the intersection of Highway 43 and Highway 22 (Cowboy Trail). The town is surrounded by Lac Ste. Anne County and is in Alberta's Census Division No. 13. History The name of the post office, established in 1915, honours R. I. Mayer, the first postmaster. "Thorpe" is from the Old English for hamlet or village. Mayerthorpe incorporated as a village on March 5, 1927. It then incorporated as a town just over 34 years later on March 20, 1961. On March 3, 2005, four officers serving with the Mayerthorpe and Whitecourt detachments of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) were killed in the Mayerthorpe tragedy. On July 29, 2008, the Mayerthorpe Arena was destroyed by a fire. In 2011, after three years of planning and fundraising, the new arena, now called the Mayerthorpe Exhibition Centre, was officially opened. In 2016, a string of suspicious fires in the area resulted in the de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lougheed, Alberta
Lougheed is a village in central Alberta, Canada. It is located 94 km south-east of Camrose, along Highway 13. Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Village of Lougheed had a population of 225 living in 95 of its 117 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 256. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. In the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Village of Lougheed recorded a population of 256 living in 108 of its 118 total private dwellings, a change from its 2011 population of 233. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2016. The Village of Lougheed's 2013 municipal census counted a population of 273, a change from its 2010 municipal census population of 254. See also *List of communities in Alberta *List of villages in Alberta A village is an urban municipality status type used in the Canadian province of Alberta. Alberta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leduc, Alberta
Leduc ( ) is a city in the province of Alberta, Canada. It is south of the provincial capital of Edmonton and is part of the Edmonton Metropolitan Region. History Leduc was established in 1891, when Robert Telford, a settler, who had bought land, in 1889, near a lake which would later bear his name. It was on that piece of land where the new settlement would take root. Telford established a stopping place for the stagecoach line that in 1889 connected Calgary to Edmonton. It became known as Telford's Place. Telford previously served as an officer for the North-West Mounted Police, and later became Leduc's first postmaster, first general merchantman, and first justice of the peace. He was also elected to serve as Leduc's first Member of the Alberta legislature (MLA)in 1905. The establishment of the Calgary and Edmonton Railway, later acquired by the Canadian Pacific Railway, opened the region to settlement. The first train stopped at Leduc in July 1891. Originally there were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kinuso, Alberta
Kinuso ( cr, script=Cans, ᑭᓄᓭᐤ, ) is a hamlet in northern Alberta, Canada within Big Lakes County, and surrounded by the Swan River First Nation reserve. It is located approximately west of Slave Lake and 71 km east of High Prairie along Highway 2, south of the southern shore of Lesser Slave Lake. The name Kinuso comes from the Cree word 'fish'. Kinuso was incorporated as a village until it dissolved on September 1, 2009. Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Kinuso had a population of 150 living in 73 of its 93 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 182. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. As a designated place in the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Kinuso had a population of 182 living in 77 of its 102 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2011 population of 276. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2016. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shonts, Alberta Beaver County is a municipal district in central-east Alberta, Canada. It is centred on Holden in the western part of Census Division No. 10. Its municipal office is located in Ryley. Beaver County was incorporated as a municipal district on July 31, 1999, and the name was changed from "County of Beaver No. 9" to "Beaver County". - Alberta Municipal Affairs Geography Communities and localities |
Heritage Park Historical Village
Heritage Park Historical Village is a historical park in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, on of parkland on the banks of the Glenmore Reservoir, along the city's southwestern edge. The Historical Village is open from late May to Thanksgiving and Heritage Town Square is open year-round. As Canada's second largest living history museum, it is one of the city's most visited tourist attractions. Exhibits span western Canadian history from the 1860s to the 1950s. Many of the buildings are historical and were transported to the park to be placed on display. Others are re-creations of actual buildings. Most of the structures are furnished and decorated with genuine artifacts. Staff dress in historic costume, and antique automobiles and horse-drawn vehicles service the site. Calgary Transit provides regular shuttle service from Heritage (C-Train), Heritage C-Train station. The park opened on July 1, 1964. Park structure The park is divided into four distinct areas reflecting different time per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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