The Ogilvie Wooden Grain Elevator Society (OWGES) is a group of 6 individuals currently working in part with the Galt Railway Park to restore and display the historical significance of Western Canada's disappearing traditional wooden grain elevators.
As part of OWGES mission, is to preserve and restore artifacts to educate the public by portraying Southern Alberta’s prairie elevators and their rich cultural heritage impact of Canada's prairie landscape.
The prairie grain elevator is a Western Canadian icon that continues to disappear at a rapid rate from Western Canada’s prairie towns, once standing along each town along the railways.

OWGES has been given the opportunity to restore a historic 1925 Ogilvie Flour elevator, the society gained ownership of Alberta's very last Ogilvie wood-cribbed elevator in the province in 2015.
The elevator is a valuable structure, located 30 kilometres (19 mi) east of the Galt Historic Railway Park in the hamlet of Wrentham.
Due to high costs, the societies original plans to move the structure to the Railway Park has changed.
OWGES's new mission is to designate the Ogilvie elevator as a Provincial Historic Site of Alberta, placing the structure on the Canadian Register of Historic Places.

OWGES is currently working with the newly established Forty Mile Rail succeeder of the Canadian Pacific Railway's, Stirling Subdivision to Foremost, previously abandoned for eleven years, OWGES will cooperate with Forty Mile Rail to hold historical train rides or day trips from the Galt Historic Railway Park in Stirling to the Ogilvie elevator in Wrentham.

OWGES is currently in the funding process of their project and looking for volunteers and donations to reach their goal of $50,000 to restore the buildings back to an original functioning 1925 grain elevator.
Once restored the elevator will hold community events, historic demonstrations and educational tours will take place.
The Ogilvie Wooden Grain Elevator Society (OWGES) is a group of 6 individuals currently working in part with the Galt Railway Park to restore and display the historical significance of Western Canada's disappearing traditional wooden grain elevators. As part of OWGES mission, is to preserve and restore artifacts to educate the public by portraying Southern Alberta’s prairie elevators and their rich cultural heritage impact of Canada's prairie landscape. The prairie grain elevator is a Western Canadian icon that continues to disappear at a rapid rate from Western Canada’s prairie towns, once standing along each town along the railways.
OWGES has been given the opportunity to restore a historic 1925 Ogilvie Flour elevator, the society gained ownership of Alberta's very last Ogilvie wood-cribbed elevator in the province in 2015. The elevator is a valuable structure, located 30 kilometres (19 mi) east of the Galt Historic Railway Park in the hamlet of Wrentham. Due to high costs, the societies original plans to move the structure to the Railway Park has changed. OWGES's new mission is to designate the Ogilvie elevator as a Provincial Historic Site of Alberta, placing the structure on the Canadian Register of Historic Places.
OWGES is currently working with the newly established Forty Mile Rail succeeder of the Canadian Pacific Railway's, Stirling Subdivision to Foremost, previously abandoned for eleven years, OWGES will cooperate with Forty Mile Rail to hold historical train rides or day trips from the Galt Historic Railway Park in Stirling to the Ogilvie elevator in Wrentham.
OWGES is currently in the funding process of their project and looking for volunteers and donations to reach their goal of $50,000 to restore the buildings back to an original functioning 1925 grain elevator. Once restored the elevator will hold community events, historic demonstrations and educational tours will take place.
Galt Historic Railway Park