Saving Manitoba Elevator History
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My name is Jim A Pearson and I am a vatorologist.
A vatoriologist is a person who travels around the country photographing and researching the Vanishing Sentinels of the Canadian Priairies, the wooden grain elevators.
Inglis, Manitoba (July 20, 2010) © Jim A Pearson
Since 2007, I have published four books, maps of elevator locations in BC, Alberta and Saskatchewan, published yearly wall calendars since 2008, taken thousands of photographs of wooden grain elevators and made several hundred cardstock replicas of these iconic Western Canadian structures.
Presently, I am working on my fifth volume, which will be titled "Vanishing Sentinels: The Remaining Grain Elevators of Manitoba."
During the course of this project I have been on the Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped program which helps support me with a limited income and was diagnosed with chronic myelogenous leukemia which is being treated.
I am looking to raise money to help complete the research of the Manitoba Wooden Grain Elevators.
This money is needed to travel around Manitoba to visit archives, museums, libraries and historical societies as well as printing and publishing costs of the book.
This book will contain info on the grain elevators of Manitoba, as well as rail and elevator maps, diagrams of how these structures operated (including grain warehouses) and photos of the remaining wooden, steel and concrete structures in the province.
It is a lot of work compiling, researching, typing, laying out and desiging this book and I can use all the help I can get.
Thank you for your attention
Jim A Pearson
Vanishing Sentinels
Drumheller, Albe
A vatoriologist is a person who travels around the country photographing and researching the Vanishing Sentinels of the Canadian Priairies, the wooden grain elevators.
Inglis, Manitoba (July 20, 2010) © Jim A Pearson
Since 2007, I have published four books, maps of elevator locations in BC, Alberta and Saskatchewan, published yearly wall calendars since 2008, taken thousands of photographs of wooden grain elevators and made several hundred cardstock replicas of these iconic Western Canadian structures.
Presently, I am working on my fifth volume, which will be titled "Vanishing Sentinels: The Remaining Grain Elevators of Manitoba."
During the course of this project I have been on the Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped program which helps support me with a limited income and was diagnosed with chronic myelogenous leukemia which is being treated.
I am looking to raise money to help complete the research of the Manitoba Wooden Grain Elevators.
This money is needed to travel around Manitoba to visit archives, museums, libraries and historical societies as well as printing and publishing costs of the book.
This book will contain info on the grain elevators of Manitoba, as well as rail and elevator maps, diagrams of how these structures operated (including grain warehouses) and photos of the remaining wooden, steel and concrete structures in the province.
It is a lot of work compiling, researching, typing, laying out and desiging this book and I can use all the help I can get.
Thank you for your attention
Jim A Pearson
Vanishing Sentinels
Drumheller, Albe
Organizer
Jim A Pearson
Organizer
Drumheller, AB
