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On 14 April 2014, I spent a wonderful, fun day with my youngest daughter, driving the backroads SE of Calgary. Some of the roads were familiar to me, but others were new territory, which gave us a chance to discover some different abandoned barns and anything else that we thought was interesting and/or beautiful. We knew where our destination was going to be, more or less Mossleigh and Arrowwood, though it was disappointing that the "heat wave" distortion was just too great to get distant, zoomed photos of this row of old grain elevators. It was quite a hazy day, which never helps. Once we got really close, the problem thankfully lessened. At this distance, though, the elevators are not sharp, even if they don't look too bad at this size on a computer screen. A very interesting and informative website, with a lot of information about this row of old elevators is found at the following link. I find myself returning often to Chris and Connie's site to read about other places they have visited. It's well worth a visit to read about their travels. www.bigdoer.com/2360/exploring-history/mossleigh-elevators/ According to the website at the above link: " Update: May 2013. The lineage of the Mossleigh grain elevators has been cleared up. One was built for P&H, one for Pioneer which was later taken over by P&H, and finally one was built for the Searle Grain Company, later UGG and finally P&H. All were built in 1930 but it’s not clear exactly when they changed hands. A forth elevator used to sit here (UGG) but it was destroyed by fire in the 1960s. Update: September 2013. It’s understood that plans are in place to use the track that remains along the subdivision for some sort of tourist train, operating out of the nearby Aspen Crossing campground/garden centre complex. Time will tell if this will come to fruition – Aspen Crossing as it turns out, does have some rail cars sitting on a section of subdivision track just west of Mossleigh."

On 14 April 2014, I spent a wonderful, fun day with my youngest daughter, driving the backroads SE of Calgary. Some of the roads were familiar to me, but others were new territory, which gave us a chance to discover some different abandoned barns and anything else that we thought was interesting and/or beautiful. We knew where our destination was going to be, more or less Mossleigh and Arrowwood, though it was disappointing that the "heat wave" distortion was just too great to get distant, zoomed photos of this row of old grain elevators. It was quite a hazy day, which never helps. Once we got really close, the problem thankfully lessened. A very interesting and informative website, with a lot of information about this row of old elevators is found at the following link. I find myself returning often to Chris and Connie's site to read about other places they have visited. It's well worth a visit to read about their travels. www.bigdoer.com/2360/exploring-history/mossleigh-elevators/ According to the website at the above link: " Update: May 2013. The lineage of the Mossleigh grain elevators has been cleared up. One was built for P&H, one for Pioneer which was later taken over by P&H, and finally one was built for the Searle Grain Company, later UGG and finally P&H. All were built in 1930 but it’s not clear exactly when they changed hands. A forth elevator used to sit here (UGG) but it was destroyed by fire in the 1960s. Update: September 2013. It’s understood that plans are in place to use the track that remains along the subdivision for some sort of tourist train, operating out of the nearby Aspen Crossing campground/garden centre complex. Time will tell if this will come to fruition – Aspen Crossing as it turns out, does have some rail cars sitting on a section of subdivision track just west of Mossleigh."

On 14 April 2014, I spent a wonderful, fun day with my youngest daughter, driving the backroads SE of Calgary. Some of the roads were familiar to me, but others were new territory, which gave us a chance to discover some different abandoned barns and anything else that we thought was interesting and/or beautiful. We knew where our destination was going to be, more or less Mossleigh and Arrowwood, though it was disappointing that the "heat wave" distortion was just too great to get distant, zoomed photos of this row of old grain elevators. It was quite a hazy day, which never helps. Once we got really close, the problem thankfully lessened. Even at this distance, the photo is reasonably sharp. A very interesting and informative website, with a lot of information about this row of old elevators is found at the following link. I find myself returning often to Chris and Connie's site to read about other places they have visited. It's well worth a visit to read about their travels. www.bigdoer.com/2360/exploring-history/mossleigh-elevators/ According to the website at the above link: " Update: May 2013. The lineage of the Mossleigh grain elevators has been cleared up. One was built for P&H, one for Pioneer which was later taken over by P&H, and finally one was built for the Searle Grain Company, later UGG and finally P&H. All were built in 1930 but it’s not clear exactly when they changed hands. A forth elevator used to sit here (UGG) but it was destroyed by fire in the 1960s. Update: September 2013. It’s understood that plans are in place to use the track that remains along the subdivision for some sort of tourist train, operating out of the nearby Aspen Crossing campground/garden centre complex. Time will tell if this will come to fruition – Aspen Crossing as it turns out, does have some rail cars sitting on a section of subdivision track just west of Mossleigh."

These old, wooden grrain elevators are two out of the three that still stand at Mossleigh, SE of Calgary. The third is just off to the left of my photo. They were seen on 14 April 2014, when my youngest daughter and I spent the day driving some of the backroads SE of Calgary. From Alberta Prime Time - Talk of the Town: Mossleigh Grain Elevator Trio. Original Air Date: Thursday, April 05, 2012: "A farm family in the Mossleigh area of Southern Alberta is doing all it can to keep their local grain elevators towering over the prairies. Eric Donovan and his cousin purchased two of the three aging structures when the original owner had no more use for them. Now they're being restored to working condition." Link to an interesting article from Vulcanadvocate.com, from March 2012: www.vulcanadvocate.com/2012/03/26/mossleigh-area-resident... "There were 1,651 elevators in Alberta in 1951, but by 1982 a total of 979 elevators remained. The 1990s spelled the death of the wooden “country” or “primary” elevator. At the end of the 1990s, as the full impact of both of the ending of the Crow Rate in 1995 and further impending rail abandonment was felt, the pace of demolition accelerated at an unprecedented rate. At the end of the 1996-1997 crop year, there were only 327 elevators left. Alberta’s largest cooperative grain companies, the Alberta Wheat Pool (which amalgamated with Manitoba Pool Elevators in 1998 as Agricore) and United Grain Growers, ultimately formed a new corporate entity known as Agricore United in 2001, issuing issued public shares. Demolition of country elevators has continued, and in 2005 there were only 156 wooden elevators of any kind still standing, only a handful of which are used by the grain trade. The Government of Alberta has recognised the significance of the traditional wood grain elevators, and has designated 12 as Provincial Historic Resources. They are located in the following communities: Andrew, Castor, Leduc, Meeting Creek, Paradise Valley, Radway, Rowley (3 elevators), Scandia and St. Albert (2 elevators)." www.grainelevatorsalberta.ca/articles/HRM-history.pdf

Finding it hard to get myself moving since returning from my wonderful week with friends, Linda and Tony, driving down to Yellowstone National Park and Grand Teton National Park. Wish I was still down there and that my special friends were still here - they should be back home in England by now. However, made myself take off for a couple of hours two days ago (23 September 2012), driving a few of the gravel backroads SW of the city, before all signs of fall have disappeared. Discovered that there was an unpleasant haze, presumably due to forest fires, and the mountains could barely be seen. By the way, there is a For Sale sign by the fence, so I really hope that any eventual buyer lets this beautiful row of five old granaries remain standing.

This is an amazing, long, old pig barn that we saw on 17th September 2009, on a botanizing trip to the Colpitts Ranch, west of the city. There are several beautiful old barns on the property, but unfortunately I didn't photograph others at the start of our walk, when the sun was shining. A short-lived, heavy rain shower arrived a few hours later, towards the end of our walk, which put an end to any ideas of taking more photos.

A beautiful old barn seen on the Colpitts Ranch, Springbank, west of Calgary, on 17th September 2009. Near the end of our botanizing walk, the sky opened and down came the rain. I had intended taking all sorts of shots of this old structure when our walk was over, but this ended up being the only shot I could take, thanks to the weather.

This is just a small section of a long, old pig barn that we saw yesterday on a botanizing trip to the Colpitts Ranch, west of the city. There are several beautiful old barns on the property, but unfortunately I didn't photograph others at the start of our walk, when the sun was shining. A short-lived (i.e. not enough to make the mushrooms grow!) rain shower arrived a few hours later, towards the end of our walk, which put an end to any ideas of taking more photos.