Grain Elevators of Saskatchewan Photo Gallery by Mike Stobbs at pbase.com

Grain Elevators of Saskatchewan

All images in this gallery are for sale. Contact me at impala.ss@shaw.ca for sizing and prices.
Enjoy and thanks for looking......Mike
NOTE IMAGES ARE WEB PROOFS ONLY ALL IMAGES ARE PRINTED AT THE LAB ON HIGH QUALITY PHOTOGRAPHIC PAPERS

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ME!!!	Aberdeen SK May 2006	Aberdeen SK May 2006	Admiral SK Aug 2006	Admiral SK Aug 2006
Alida SK May 2007	Allan SK May 2006	Ardill SK June 2007	Allan SK May 2006	Allan SK May 2006
Aneroid SK Aug 2006	Aneroid SK Aug 2006	Arcola SK Aug 2006	Arcola SK Aug 2006	Pioneer Annex On A Farm West Of Arcola SK Aug 2006
Remains of the Ardath SK Elevator May 2006	The Remains of the Ardath Sk Elevator May 2006	Asquith SK May 2006	Asquith SK May 2006	Asquith SK May 2006
Birsay SK June 2007	Farm Near Birsay SK June 2007	Assiniboia SK Jan 2006	Assiniboia SK Jan 2007	Assiniboia SK Jan 2007
Avonlea SK March 2006	Aylesbury SK Sept 2005	Aylesbury SK July 2006	Aylesbury SK July 2006	Balcarres SK Oct 2005

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Robert Breton		04-Jul-2008 12:43
Robert Breton as Bob Hope would say "thanks for the memories". I left Sk. in 1952, wandered distant lands for a number of years, and now live in Burlington On., but will never forget those dusty and stately Saskatchewan sky scrapers.Re the Lake valley grain elevator, I lived there for awhile in the railway station, and was shocked when in 1999 my wife and I drove there and found nothing of the village but the pictured grain elevator. Thank you, for the fine effort and for sharing with us displaced Saskatchewanites a history of the tall ghosts of the prairies.

Robert Breton		03-Jul-2008 21:31
Robert Breton Jul. 2008 My father worked for the c.n.r., as a section foreman, and that resulted in our living next to the tracks, and sometimes near an elevator. Several of your photos are of structures in towns where we lived, such as Lake Valley which no longer exists, we lived in the train station.I left Sk. in July 1952, and will always remember that when one looked in a 380 degree circle ,often 3 or 4 villages could be located because of the grain elevators. As Bob Hope would say " thanks for the memories"

Douglas Sanderson		11-May-2008 19:00
Do you have greeting cards?

sheila		01-May-2008 05:14
I was born and rised in valley center and they had 4 elevators there at one time until the train tracks were taking out . Very nice pictures .

guest		13-Apr-2008 14:18
What a delight! I have to tell you, though, that the Valor elevator is located about 10 miles west of the actual townsite of Valor. It was moved to that private farm in 1983, but I see, 25 years later, still hasn't been repainted.

Edna Goertzen		13-Apr-2008 02:52
Can't thank you enough for these great images. Being an ex-prairie girl, I still love the elevators. Are there any still standing? We plan on taking a trip back to Sask this year. Thank you so much!!!!!

Bruno Nerenberg		25-Feb-2008 19:37
What a nice photo collection on these great landmarks that are mostly all gone. Nice to see that you have posted them on the web and people can purchase photo's of the home town elevator they were from. I build small scale model Pool Elevators with the Pool logo and any home town name they want on both sides. These models stand 11 inches tall and are 1/8" to 12" scale. Please write me for pictures and a price.

Walter O. Koenig "Amoxtli"		23-Jan-2008 02:18
Holy smokes. What a collection. You've documented them very well. Many fine shots. The Province of Saskatchewan should pay you for doing this. "V" Best Wishes, Walter

Isaac Cumbo		29-Dec-2007 17:26
Very interesting gallery. I have family in Saskatchewan and remember seeing many similar grain elevators on my trips out there.

Joel Bouchard		21-Dec-2007 21:51
Have you published a book of your elevator photos? I'm especially interested in elevators of Manitoba. Do you have any photos of Manitoba elevators? I'm an artist painting mostly Manitoba grain elevators but I'm also interested in beginning to paint Saskatchewan elevators.

Eldar Kadymov		07-Nov-2007 01:44
These fellas livin' around shoudaa havvin' lotsa fun !!! V

Blair Wainman		02-Sep-2007 04:27
Wow! I had no idea you had this treasure tucked away in your gallery. This is a dream of mine! You have done an excellent work of preserving a disappearing icon of prairie life...the prairie lifeline. Well done! So many memories, Outram, Ponteix, Hodgeville etc.

Marlin Markle		21-Aug-2007 00:46
excellent work,gave me more ideas for my HO scale layout

Frank		19-Aug-2007 18:16
"HOT OFF THE PRESS!! Mawer Elevator move Word is : ready to roll on aug 27th. Any one wanting to take photos etc are asked to use common sense and not crowd the issue. this is the "rollout" of mawer date

some one		31-Jul-2007 20:01
i wood like to see a photo of macnutt sk old grain elevator

Natasha		21-Jun-2007 16:44
You take beautiful photos, I wish you would include photos of the old grain elevator in Consul, SK.

Guest		19-May-2007 01:42
Nice gallery, great shots!

Frank		01-May-2007 00:16
HI all Heads up the earth is being dug at the new site {sukanen} for te cement for the mawer move

liebermann		03-Apr-2007 08:17
impressive collection. one expects to see Don Quixote arriving to fight against this "giants"... brgds, Volker

don read		29-Mar-2007 12:10
I was born in Reynaud and as a kid-worked in those elevators--originally there were 4 of them-but I believe they are ALL gone now.Certainly do not have any in Florida. Thanks the memories.

Ron Asp		26-Feb-2007 16:43
A lot of work was put into this gallery..truly excellent photos...many memories..We use to have alot in our city and now only one left..for how long, who knows..Thanks for sharing your photos...If your in Wetaskiwin, Alberta at the Stan Renolds Museum they have a working model almost which is hand on..and the collection of old autos would blow your mind away...Thanks for sharing..Ron

Mawer move		25-Jan-2007 03:23
ok folks Sorry to have to let you know the elevator will not move until june circumstances ! It will still happen just delayed keep an eye here I will keep you updated Frank

Frank		23-Jan-2007 03:44
ok folks more on the Mawer move Get your vcrs set for tomorrow nights news on CTV {Tuesday Jan 23} The lady interviewer was at Mawer today at the old site talking to the persons who donated the elevator. She also filmed the highline {powerline}we have to cross. There was also a segment done at the museum where the elevator is going to be restored Frank

Jim Pearson		19-Jan-2007 07:46
You have an excellent site here! I also have a website set up on the Vanishing Elevators of Alberta at http://web.mac.com/difdbs/iWeb/Vanishing%20Sentinels/Home.html. Check it out... I also have been collecting the elevator company history of all the known elevators in Alberta, and am planning on getting it published soon. I am also planning on doing the same for Saskatchewan and Manitoba... and your phots will help me find some of these disappearing structures! Keep up the increidble work! Cheers! Jim A Pearson Vanishing Sentinels Delia, Alberta

Guest		10-Jan-2007 05:38
ok folks mawer move find your cameras and your spare batteries and your sweaters it is time !!!!!! as of tonights meeting jan 9 2007 we are "rockin" the mover that was approved earlier will be given the go ahead to start {start date not know as yet} the mover will need approx 2 weeks to prep for the move then the road trip will take about 2-3 days depending on the weather and line crossings then the elevator will be set in place temporary i have seen the map it is approved totally now, the route has been driven 3 times over to be sure .We know where We will be crossing the CP rail main line i will get the map in the next few days and post it .keep tabs folks as i will be up loading as i know more we have to have the move done by the middle of march {road bans}

daniyale		04-Jan-2007 14:04
hi there! although the original grain elevators in estevan burnt down in i think 2001 i have pictures of the fire. you can email me if you like them

Guest		27-Dec-2006 08:06
Mawer to Sukanen move news paper clipping www.sukanenmuseum.ca/items/elevator2.htm

Guest		27-Dec-2006 08:05
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Bill Craig		23-Dec-2006 19:55
Just happened across this amazing site!My life has been closely connected with grain elevators and grain buyers for at least 60 years.From sitting in the truck with my dad and uncles hauling grain to elevators in Marquis, Tuxford and Moose Jaw to working on the Federal Grain repair and construction crews all over Sask.In a later career I became an insurance claims adjuster.Many grain buyers/elevator managers also operated insurance agencies and several bacame good friends and business associates.As an insurance adjuster I also had the opportunity to handle several fire claims and oversee salvaging of grain after elevators were destroyed by fire.There are lots of great memories of the structures and people associated with them in your photo display!Fabulous photos!!Thanks.

Guest		15-Dec-2006 00:53
evening all i have just been told that the print media has done an interview with one of the members from the elevator committee for the mawer elevator move should be out this weekend i am not sure which one did it i have some searching to do to find out in the mean time "heads up" to any of you that are in this area see what we can find as soon as i get it i will get it scanned and out to you folks here for you that are further away

Guest		03-Dec-2006 03:31
Mawer Sask Please be aware folks that the smaller elevator is moving to a new home {date uncertain as yet}it has been donated to the Sukanen Ship Pioneer Village and Museum www.sukanemuseum.ca . the move is in plannig and final date is subject to many things but it will happen. Frank blacksmythe@sasktel.net

Guest		09-Nov-2006 15:29
Great Pictures. im glad to see you got the Mawer elevator in your collection...

Laurie Borzel, N. Battleford		17-Oct-2006 18:56
Great collection of pictures. I especially like the Wroxton one. But, you need to come up to the great Northwest sometime . . . there's easily two or three dozen elevators up here that I don't see in your collection.

Sophie		22-Sep-2006 21:43
Wonderful images! All these elevators right here in our province... and they all were used at one time. Many have been shut down. Makes one question what has happened to all the farm families who hauled their grain to these elevators, and the way of life on the prairies. There are not near as many farmers these days, and from the number of farm auction sales in this province alone, it makes me very sad to see this way of life gone forever.

Guest		21-Sep-2006 19:43
My memories date back to the 1940's at the elevators at Fuedal, Sas. which was south west if Purdue. I recall the line up of farm trucks when the elevator get rail cars.At this time, the elevator agent would catch some sleep on a cot in the office building, which was right over the engine. He didn't get real sleep until the cars, and the anexes were full. A farmer would go to his house and pick up his meal, which he ate on the go. I willalways be able to hear the sound the the elevator engine pounding away. - Dan Page -Regina

don		17-Sep-2006 23:28
I see that you did not get one from Bateman SK

Guest		16-Sep-2006 15:20
I missed Kipling

Barbara Read and Fred Schaad		09-Aug-2006 23:58
We will definately return to your galleries again soon.

Barbara Read and Fred Schaad		09-Aug-2006 23:57
This a collection that we wish were ours, lol. Your gallery inspires us to travel to Saskatchewan and visit these grain elevators before they are gone. Great stuff and we thank you for sharing them. V

Shirley Wang		07-Jun-2006 23:42
Great collections!

Vipin Mayer		21-Mar-2006 14:06
wonderful gallery, and well captured shots,excellently composed images, this place is wonderful for BW work,great collection

Kirk Klein		12-Mar-2006 13:04
Great gallery. Grain elevators are a vanishing prairie giant. You have captured them nicely. I hope the old ones can be saved and maintained as they are an essential icon of Canadian history and growth in the vast prairie. k

mattshaver		09-Mar-2006 12:43
Great Pic!! - Willows SK Jan 2006

don nieman		09-Mar-2006 01:34
You nmust have put lots of miles on your car getting to all these locations. Quite a collection. My favorites are Fillmore, Tuxford (looking down the tracks), Neidpath, Breircrest, Torquay and Goodeve. With Tuxford (looking down the tracks) taking top honors. Excellent work.

webcam709		03-Mar-2006 18:31
Excellent collection ......... Very very creative work ........ Keep uploading!

Macastat		28-Feb-2006 03:51
inspired and fascinating gallery. Incredibly well done. tony

Utsav		27-Feb-2006 13:04
superb theme gallery and very beautiful and informative work here cheers

Jose Paulo Andrade		26-Feb-2006 23:44
A very original and big collection!!

Prairiefoto		02-Feb-2006 04:46
Fantastic work!

Richard Calmes		28-Jan-2006 18:16
Very interesting and well composed. Love the colors! V

Larry Krushelnitzky		22-Jan-2006 01:14
Great work. You must have captured every elevator left standing. I was raised in Southern Saskatchewabn and these photos bring back fond memories.

Alex in Toronto, ON CA		29-Dec-2005 01:55
Very attractive and interesting images.

dan dunn		28-Dec-2005 16:40
Fine work...DD

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