A Prairie sentinel, believed to be the oldest in Canada, is taking its farewell bow.
The Lake of the Woods Milling Company grain elevator in the southwest Manitoba hamlet of Elva has shouldered thrashing rains and snow and withstood the baking sun for 125 years.
Now it is being eased into history, board by board and nail by nail.
A similar fate is coming to the former United Grain Growers elevator, built circa 1916, a stone’s throw from the Lake of the Woods one.
“It is sad to see these symbols of Prairie Canada come down, but I am pragmatic about it,” said Gordon
