image for illustration: Nanton Grain Elevator by Ken Eckert, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Leo Wieser, President of the Canadian Grain Elevator Discovery Centre Nanton, is working to preserve two 21-metre icons of the Prairies – twin grain elevators in Nanton, Alta.
Halifax City News writes:
… Leo Wieser worked in the movie biz… Now he’s fighting… to preserve two 21-metre icons of the Prairies – twin grain elevators in Nanton, Alta. ‘These were the beacons. These were the things from the 1910s and 1920s that were actually landmarks,’ said Wieser.
Wieser is president of the Canadian Grain Elevator Discovery Centre in Nanton, 80 kilometres south of Calgary. He grew up in Calgary next door to Heritage Park….
The goal is preserving a small reminder of the towering sentinels that were linked by railways and defined hamlets, villages and towns….
