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Helen Atkinson
#1 lady in Leduc to gain support for
saving our elevator.

WHO WE ARE

The Alberta Legacy Development Society incorporated as a registered society to save, preserve and develop the Leduc Elevator Village for future generations.

OUR MISSION

Our mission is to develop viable and sustainable concepts that will benefit Canadians in the education of our children and the children of generations to come.









WHAT WE DO

Our immediate goal is to provide financial means through various fund raising activites, that we may develop the elevator village as an educational, historical site.

WHY WE DO IT

We feel that we are the caretakers of a valuable community resource that symbolizes the historic development of the Canadian west. It is our belief that through our heritage we learn to understand the meaning of the past and how it relates to our planning for the future.

WHAT DO OUR FUND-RAISING PROJECTS DO?

  • Pay for the land and elevator village buildings

  • Pay for maintenance and utilities

  • Develop the buildings and property as an educational and tourist site

WHAT CAN YOU DO?

  • Buy a membership?

  • Volunteer (it's a lot of fun!)

  • Make a donation (every little bit helps)

  • Attend our meetings (public is welcome)

  • Spread the good word

WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU?

  • To know you have helped preserve a valuable, historic icon

  • To know you have contributed to the education of future generations

  • To be identified with a worthy and growing community project

HOW A GRAIN ELEVATOR WORKS
 
     
  Monthly Meeting - 2/16/2010
  Monthly Meeting - 1/19/2010
  Members Christmas Party - 11/17/2009
  Monthly Meeting - 10/20/2009
  Monthly Meeting - 8/18/2009
 
Leduc Grain Elevator
No roads or paths to follow
In the distance what did I see?
Out in the boundless sea of grain
Stood Leduc's grain elevator
A staunch cathedral to guide
To Leduc loomed straight ahead
Only these were our guideposts
In Alberta's vast settling plains
If it were not for elevators
We would be lost in a sea of grain
Grain elevators, grain elevators
You've led our way across the plain
Do not look back, look ahead
Look there off in the distance
You see a grain elevator
To guide you on your way
It is our only guidepost
In Leduc's great sea of grain Rejoice!
We're not lost anymore
These cathedrals guide our way
We can now rest in Leduc this day
And now we give thanks to God
We've come to the end of our journey
In Leduc, the Alberta sea of grain
In Leduc, the Alberta sea of grain
A poem by Helmut Lincoln Schmeichel
 
   
© 2007 Alberta Legacy Development Society