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Welcome
to my Website
Change
is coming fast and furious to small town Canada. Some changes are good,
some not. The rate at which the country elevators across the Prairie
Provinces are being torn down is making the remaining wood structures an
“Endangered Species.” Hand in hand with the demise of their
elevators goes some of the communities’ spirit and a great deal of its
history.
I
am working hard to capture a bit of the past and give it back to
communities throughout the prairies in the form of Keepsake Booklets. My project will continue for several
years with Alberta being my starting point. I have been gathering pictures
of elevators for many years and I have spent countless hours tracking
their history and documenting my findings. My husband and I grain farm in
the Elnora-Huxley area of central Alberta. We have two children and one
grandchild. Our son farms with us, and our daughter is married and living
in Calgary.
The loss of so many of our small town elevators has greatly
impacted our rural way of life. Our senior citizens are stunned at seeing
the elevators that they have known all their lives suddenly, with very
little forewarning, demolished by a stroke of the pen and with little
thought for the future.
My keepsakes are giving people something
tangible to hold on to, something to put away and then bring back out when
they are feeling nostalgic. I have completed the elevator histories of
close to 80 communities in Alberta and I have grouped them, by location,
in four booklets which I refer to as Series One, Two, Three and Four.
Take
a journey back to yesterday and enjoy simpler times when farmers
congregated at their local elevators………
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