page_title: Warner elevator row
section_title: History and significance
hierarchical_section_title: Warner elevator row / History and significance
caption_attribution_description: English: Alberta Farmers Co-operative Co. elevator, built in 1913; company taken over by Alberta Pool Elevators
context_page_description: The Warner elevator row is a group of four historic wood-cribbed grain elevators standing in a row from south to north alongside the Canadian Pacific Railway line from Great Falls, Montana to Lethbridge, Alberta at the east entrance of the village of Warner, Alberta, Canada. At one time, the row had at least seven elevators.
context_section_description: Many once-common wood-crib grain elevators in Western Canada have been torn down. Warner has four elevators, and the Inglis elevator row in Manitoba has five. Warner's elevators are not protected.  In 2014, two of the elevators were demolished.
  Before 1911, Warner had two elevators: one a 30,000 imperial bushels (1,100 m³) house built by the Alberta Pacific Elevator Company, and the other a 25,000 imperial bushels (910 m³) elevator built by Jones and Dill. In 1913, the first elevator in the remaining group was built by the Alberta Farmers' Co-operative Elevator Company. The structure and history of each elevator was influenced by developments in the grain industry and its companies from before World War II to the 1980s.
  The Warner elevators date from 1913 to 1960. The row included an early example of the Alberta Farmers' Co-operative Elevator Company design and examples of complex component arrangements: elevator and twin, elevator and annexes and original and replacement offices. The 1939 elevator built by the Ellison Milling and Elevator Company is an architecturally-significant example of an essentially-unchanged 1940s complex consisting of an elevator, two balloon annexes and a track-side office and warehouse (usually from an earlier period). A small number of late-1930s elevators remain in Alberta, a reminder that few were built for some time after 1934. This elevator was demolished in the early 2000s. The Warner elevator row is included in Jim Pearson's book, Grain Elevators of Eastern Saskatchewan.
caption: Alberta Farmers Co-operative elevator, built in 1913 before Alberta Wheat Pool takeover (photo circa 1920)
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