Azure & Bronze

Cruising along the Number Two south of High River Alberta you can see it over there in the west. Silhouetted by the Porcupine Hills, it’s a towering grain elevator found at a place called Azure, never really a town, more a siding along a (now gone) rail line. Dating from the 1920s the structure was built by the firm Alberta Pacific. Later, in the 1960s it was sold to a local farmer who used to it to store grain for a time, but today stands empty and unused. We understand plans are in place to preserve the building so it does not appear threatened.

We’ve been trying to get into the elevator, for an intimate look, for some time now and will keep on it. We did visit it many years ago, but not up close like we want to today. A link below will show how it looked in 2012.

This day: lucky us we happened to be driving by as the sun set. Screech, a hard left, a little burning rubber to find a cross road where the elevator and sun could sort of be lined up. That amazing bronze hue. It was not a planned stop but opportunity presented itself and we’ll take it.

Azure, in the world of colour, is a powdery blue. And it’s the name of that place.

More history…
Azure Grain Elevator.

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Date of adventure: October, 2018.
Location: Azure, AB.

Off in the distance an old grain elevator.

At a place called Azure.