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#139
Watercolour
Carole Villeneuve
February 2015
Grain Elevators are vanishing on the prairies.
From a peak of more than 1700 wooden grain elevators in Alberta in the 1930's,
an article written in 2013 estimates about 120 are left standing. Known as prairie
sentinels they once served to connect people on the prairies, much like the
Inuksuk of the Arctic. Upon arriving at a grain elevator, the next closest one
could often be seen. This grain elevator at Kuusamo is WSW of Sylvan Lake on the CN line
from north of Red Deer to Rocky Mountain House. It was closed in 2002 and became privately owned. The reference photo for this painting was taken in the fall of 2014.
