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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. SUBTITLED : ` The Life and Death of Calgary's Canadian Government Elevator '. Growing out of the Canadian Grain Act of 1912, several locations were selected as major grain handling centres. The Calgary facility was operation in September of 1915. These 47 pages describe the history, architercture, and demoltion of what became known as `The Government'. Read more about : conveyor belts, skyline, shipping shed, boxcar, power shovels, tidewater, bushels, bin floor, inland terminals, Union Jack, and dust collector cyclones. Text assisted by colour and b/w (archive) photographs. Also some architectural drawings. Cond : Boards are black with silver gilt lettering. Pictorial end-papers. White dust jacket. Cover image (b/W) is of the trackside elevator complex - circa 1948. Volume is clean and bright and crisp. No names nor marks. Collectible ! ! QUote (p. 10) : " ._._. to one of the three shipping legs. The grain was then elevated, weighed, and directed by spouting to one of six car spouts in the two-track shipping shed. Each shipping track had three loading positions where the ._._._. . " Size: Quarto. Colour and B/W Photographs (illustrator).…