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Lanigan C.P.R. Depot
Circa. 1908
Lanigan, Saskatchewan

Credits:
Lanigan and District Heritage Assoc.

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Express Wagon
1930-1940
Lanigan, Saskatchewan

Credits:
Lanigan and District Heritage Assoc.

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In the early years the train arrived with groceries, mail, goods and freight. Meeting the train, the Town Dray made deliveries to the respective businesses. The first drays and cartage were pulled by horses and then came the truck. There was a rural mail service as well. Those contracting the job used horse drawn vehicles and then in the later years, cars were used to deliver the mail to the rural mailboxes. The rail lines of today through Lanigan no longer carry mail. Canada Post uses mail trucks and priority post or courier service.

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Travel Ticket Folder
Circa. 1911
Lanigan, Saskatchewan

Credits:
Lanigan and District Heritage Assoc.

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CP Rail Register Ticket
4 October 1981
Lanigan, Saskatchewan

Credits:
CP Rail
Lanigan and District Heritage Assoc.

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Lanigan Dray and Cartage
Circa. 1945
Lanigan, Saskatchewan

Credits:
Lanigan and District Heritage Assoc.

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Doug Wachs writes:
2007
Lanigan, Saskatchewan

Credits:
Doug Wachs

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Doug Wachs writes: " I worked at the station a lot during the summer. At that time the trains burnt coal, and they would come in on the track and dump the ashes between the tracks. The track crew that repaired the track would take the ashes from in between and shovel them off to the side. Then in the spring, the CPR would hire me with a team of horses and a tumble bucket, and we would scrape these cinders. If you dig down a bit anywhere around here from about the crossing to the elevator, you will find these cinders."

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With the coming of the railroad, the building of elevators followed. In the early days horse drawn sleigh boxes and wagons hauled to the elevators and the flourmills. From the elevator, the grain was loaded in boxcars and was transported by rail to the grain terminals in the East and in the West to be sold to prospective buyers. Now the local elevators are disappearing due the building of Inland Terminals. Times change and with these changes trucks haul the grain to these Inland Terminals and then the grain goes by rail.