From harvest to the elevator
Soil is our heritage, Holmes, Frances, J. S.
Archives du Manitoba, FC2145

Harvest time is the time of year when nature lavishes her gift on mankind. Across the golden grain lands of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta a huge array of harvesting machinery travels like a hungry horse reaping the newly ripened wealth of cereal grain: Wheat for the bakers of Canada and the needy ones of a war torn world.
Forage and miscellaneous grains for livestock and many industrial uses, all are garnered from fertile fields of Western Canada. Sentinels of the prairie scattered from Manitoba's Precambrian country to the foothills of Alberta, the country elevators hum with activity as the new crop roles in.
Ground into flour, this wheat may find its way to a dinner table in England, france or Norway, or one of the other 60 countries that buy our wheat.
Thundering east and west to tide waters over endless miles of steel clad roadbeds, huge freight trains move the products of our soil into the markets of the world. Markets in countries clamour for our products because the lack of broad and fertile farmland.