A project designed to compile an inventory of every grain elevator that ever existed in Saskatchewan is in the home stretch.
The focus of the research has shifted to finding elevators that farmers built themselves for their own use.
“We knew of one and thought it was an anomaly and very rare, but in the last few months I’ve found four others,” said researcher Raymond
Ambrosi of the Centennial Elevator Research Project.
“It was really quite a shock.”
Three are located in the Birch Hills area, one near Conquest and one around Moose Jaw. They were probably all built before or during the 1930s.
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Ambrosi wants anyone who knows of other such elevators to contact him at 306-522-9793.
“If we found five of them I suspect there’s probably a couple more out there and I’d like to know where they are.”
Info update
The research project, commissioned by the Saskatchewan Heritage Foundation, is intended to update an earlier inventory conducted in 1999-2000, which listed about 900 elevators and included historical information about each facility.
Between 50 and 60 of the elevators were identified as being of enough historical or architectural significance to merit designation as a heritage property by municipal or provincial government.
