A nearly 64-year-old wooden grain elevator in Waskada was destroyed by fire early Tuesday morning, leaving just over 100 of the Prairie icons in Manitoba, compared to a peak of 700.

A nearly 64-year-old wooden grain elevator in Waskada was destroyed by fire early Tuesday morning, leaving just over 100 of the Prairie icons in Manitoba, compared to a peak of 700.

Another piece of the past on the Prairie landscape has gone up in flames in rural Manitoba. A wooden grain elevator in the village of Waskada, just over 100 kilometres southwest of Brandon, was ...