These prairie icons have dominated the landscape of Western Canada for more than a century.

The traditional wooden grain elevator of Western Canada is a symbol of the region's rich agricultural heritage.

These elevators were built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries designed to receive, store and ship grain in bulk to market.

The elevators were usually located near railway lines to transfer grain to rail cars for shipment to market.

They could be found close enough together on the rail line to allow most farmers to make a round trip from farm to elevator in one day.

As the grain industry grew, so did the number of grain elevators.

By the 1930s, there were upwards of 6,000 wooden grain elevators in Western Canada.

What caused the decline of this icon and how many are left today?

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