VATORS

Vator /veItƏ/ ●n. a self-coined term for a tall building used for storing grain; a.k.a. a 'grain elevator'. ●v. to actively look for grain storage buildings (e.g. to vator, to go vatoring... I saw my first grain elevator on a visit to the Prairies in the early 1980s in the town of Harptree, Saskatchewan (SE22-04-26-W2 ). The town had a population of four; one family. Twenty years later, when I had taken up residence in Saskatchewan, I returned to Harptree. The town was gone; the vators, the family home were gone, demolished in September 1997. This obliteration included the 120,000 bushel wood-crib vator I had seen under construction in 1982.