During the good ol’ days when the railway came to the end of its journey, there were two elevators in Cremona (Alberta Pacific Grain and Pioneer Grain) built in 1929 in addition to one feed mill built in 1964 which operated and served Cremona during those days.
By October 1992, the last of the grain elevators, part of this great Western Canadian history, was demolished.
But fortunately, Bill Howells cut a deal with the elevator company to demolish some of it and reuse some of the lumber. In the open area you see around you, lush with greenery in the summer and bare in the winter, was where the burning of the remnants of the elevators occurred. Nothing grows there but green, green grass. Nature takes over… eventually. But in the meantime, the birds have decided to reuse the area instead. Can you spot all three?