Inglis Grain Elevators National Historic Site, National historic site in Shellmouth-Boulton, Canada.
Inglis Grain Elevators is a row of five wooden storage buildings that stand along former railway tracks and showcase agricultural storage techniques from the early 1900s. The structures vary in size and construction, showing how storage methods changed and improved over 20 years.
The first four storage buildings were constructed in 1922 right after the railway arrived, which reorganized local grain trading. A fifth elevator was added later and reflects further advances in storage design.
These wooden structures show how grain trading and railway transport shaped daily life and economic activity in Western Canadian communities. Visitors can see how important these buildings were to farmers and merchants in the region.
The site is easy to reach and the wooden buildings are visible and accessible for photographs from outside. To learn about the interiors and how the elevators worked, visitors should join guided tours that explain the grain handling operations.
This row preserves the last complete sequence of wooden grain elevators in Canada, showing how structures from 1922 to 1941 were progressively improved. The different building styles standing side by side allow visitors to compare technical developments within these two decades.
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