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Series Four
My Series Four Album is a full colour, 4 x 6
laminated and bound booklet of photos showing the original elevators and
their histories. The Series Four elevators are from the Alberta
locations of Edberg, Meeting Creek, Donalda, Red Willow, Bashaw, Oberlin,
Erskine, Stettler, Botha, Halkirk, Castor, Forestburg, Alliance, Galahad,
Coronation and Consort.
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These elevators appear on the Cover of the Series Four Booklet.
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Edberg
Emil Edstrom built the first grain facility in Edberg in 1910.
It had a capacity of 16,000 bushels. In 1914 the warehouse was bought
by the D.R. Davis Grain Company which expanded the facility to 20,000
bushels. Home Grain took over in 1927. Later the same year the
Alberta Pool Elevators bought the Home Grain facility and built a new
elevator on the site. In the 1940's a major upgrade was done to the
elevator. This elevator closed in 1995.
The second new elevator
was built in 1916 by the Alberta Farmers Co-operative Elevator
Company. In 1917 with the amalgamation of the Alberta Farmers
Co-operative & the Grain Growers Grain Company the United Grain Growers
was formed. This elevator became UGG #1 in Edberg. In the late
1940s the elevator was upgraded. UGG #1 ran until 1982 when it closed
its doors.
Home Grain built the third
new elevator at Edberg in 1928. In 1929 Searle Grain took over
from Home Grain and ran as the Searle's only elevator in 1931 when it's
status changed to Searle #2. This elevator stopped operating in 1957
and was used for storage.
The next new elevator was
built by Searle Grain in 1931. This elevator became Searle #1.
In 1954 a large annex was added. UGG took control of the Searle
Facility in 1967 and it became UGG #2. This facility stopped operating
in 1982. There are no elevators left in Edberg.
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