Metal sheathing, which was often applied to these buildings for fire mitigation, is attended too. Old wood, bits of this and that, is loaded onto a truck for delivery to the local dump. And the team is on the scene for just that.ĭecades worth of spilled grain is swept up. While standing tall and proud, this towering mass of wood (2圆s laid flat and stacked, interconnected by HUGE beams) still needs a little TLC from time to time. While it’s hoped one day it can be used as a museum of sorts, once historical status can be granted – and it should be since it fits all the necessary requirements – for now just making sure it’s kept up is the priority. The group’s goal is simple, to preserve the structure. Knowing it’s value as an historic structure, the farmer sold off the building to the Oglivie Wooden Grain Elevator Society, OWGES for short, for a nominal sum. There’s a couple/few wood Ogilvies in Manitoba, however. *Footnote: there’s one other Ogilvie Elevator in the province, in Medicine Hat, but it’s a giant milling plant made of concrete. The building was never repainted by the Alberta Wheat Pool and if you look close you can still see the old Ogilvie lettering on its side. By then, it was the last of its kind, the last wood Ogilvie in Alberta*. In the late 1960s it was acquired by a local farmer, from the Pool, the fellow and his family using the structure for grain storage into the early 2010s. Then there’s redundancy…the “Pool”, the biggest player in the industry province wide, was already well represented nearly everywhere, including places these competing elevators stood, so there was no real need for them. Reasons? Most Oglivies were small in capacity and outdated. In Alberta, these facilities were acquired by the Alberta Wheat Pool, with most being closed down and demolished soon afterwards. In the late 1950s, Ogilvie disposed of their rural elevators.
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