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Elizabeth Whalley

Saskatchewan Grain Elevators

June 2020

A handmade map that diagrams isolated wooden grain elevators in Saskatchewan.

A handmade map that diagrams isolated wooden grain elevators in Saskatchewan.

Railway tracks that link them to Thunder Bay on Lake Superior, and the ecozones that background this network.

Railway tracks that link them to Thunder Bay on Lake Superior, and the ecozones that background this network.

A partial, provisional schema, the map suggests that small, even ephemeral, grain elevators, communities, and railway lines, embedded in vast prairie and boreal regions, play a part in the construction of a Canadian idea of place.

A partial, provisional schema, the map suggests that small, even ephemeral, grain elevators, communities, and railway lines, embedded in vast prairie and boreal regions, play a part in the construction of a Canadian idea of place.