Kirkpatrick, Alberta Grain Elevator

The remaining elevator in Kirkpatrick was originally built in 1924 as an Alberta Pacific Grain Company elevator. It then transitioned to Federal Grain in 1968, and then to Alberta Wheat Pool in 1972. AWP sold it to a local farmer in the early 1980s that uses it to this day.

The elevator stood beside the former CPR Langdon subdivision, which came to the region in the fall of 1921 and was the “end of the line”, until CPR began construction in January 1923 and continued eastward. CPR would abandoned and remove the railway line in the early 1980s.

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Sharples P&H Grain Elevator

The 1923 Parrish & Heimbecker grain elevator at Sharples, Alberta it is representative example of a P&H 30,000 bushel elevator of this period. It originally had a 12 ton Fairbanks scale and a 10 hp engine. Two 26,000 bushel annexes were built in 1939 (though only one remains standing) and in 1943-44, P&H handled 125,549 bushels of wheat! When the adjacent rail line closed in 1982, the elevator was then closed. Its neighbor, a former 1927 AB Pacific elevator, was demolished though the P&H survived being used by a local farmer for grain storage. Of particular note is the nearby barn, which was owned by P&H and was used to rest farmer’s horses that pulled wagons full of grain to the elevator. This is the only elevator in the province of Alberta that has a barn associated with it still standing.

Visited with permission from the landowner - July 2018

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