Grain Elevators on the Canadian Prairies

Abstract

As they crested the ridge, the cupolas of the wheat elevators at Plainville came into view ... Gander grew up in the straggling street that skirted the railway track ... on his /eh the huge bulk of the grain elevators, each with its squat little engine room from which came the intermittent spit ... spit ... of the gasoline motor ... from the railway track came the sound, like rushing water, of wheat being piped into cars for shipment, first to Fort William or Port Arthur and later to those hiving lands of Europe now so assiduously engaged in a business of their own, but a business which could not be carried on for long without the help of that little red kernel, mightier than siege guns and battleships ... 1

Keywords

• Canada