Meeting Creek

Meeting Creek became a rail service point when the Canadian Northern Railway arrived in May 1910 to the sound of a local brass band. Its depot, built in 1913 to the company’s Standard Third Class plan, was a typical North American combination railway depot, providing passenger service, freight and express handling, and telegraph and cable business, with an agent’s apartment for the company representative and family. This rural branch line operation served the community for 87 years until 1997, when the last elevators between Stettler and Camrose closed and the line was abandoned. A short section of the original railway remains preserved with the depot and grain elevator. The Alberta Pacific Grain Elevator, built in 1917, is a conserved wood-cribbed prairie grain elevator designed to store 40,000 bushels of grain, and it was used to purchase, store, and ship crops grown by the local farming community until 1984. Once one of hundreds of such structures across the prairies, it survives as a classic symbol of the grain belt.

Alberta · Canada