elevator

noun, N. Amer. (in full ‘grain elevator’) a tall building, typically one having several cylindrical concrete silos or (on the prairies) a box-shaped wooden construction with a pitched roof, incorporating an elevating device, usu. a vertical conveyor belt of buckets, which conveys grain from an unloading platform to bins where it is sorted, stored and cleaned before onward shipment (COD); also “grain elevator”

“You worked at the grain elevator.”

“So she [the boat] tied up at the elevator at Prescott for the night, and that was in the fall.”

“Well that’s the old grain elevator, right?”
“Yeah, I don’t know when it burnt. You probably don’t remember.”

“He owned a lot of land here, and he had men working that, but he started out with just a big motorboat and a barge going around picking up grain on different parts of the Island and taking it to the elevators.”

“After The Seaway opened, it wasn’t too long that the elevator in Kingston shut down. They weren’t drawing. See the big boat, the big upper lakers, used to draw grain into the elevator. Well then the smaller boats would take it on down, eh, before The Seaway opened. Well, once The Seaway opened they didn’t need to stop. They took and went right through to Montreal or Quebec or right on out.”