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terminal elevator

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a large grain eletor which serves as a storage bin at a trans-shipping point where carloads of grain are received from country elevators. [See picture at elevator.]

See: country elevator,grain elevator(def. 2)

Quotations

1921

These two farmers' companies own and operate 632 country elevators and 4 terminal elevators at the head of the lakes.

1924

The establishment this year of the big terminal elevator in Edmonton is proof of this. . . .

1953

By 1916, the farmers of the three prairie provinces owned over 500 country elevators, in addition to terminal elevators at the head of the lakes with a capacity of 3,000,000 bushes.