Some sad news over this past weekend with the passing of Jim Pearson.
Pearson was well known in agricultural circles for his work to document and preserve prairie grain elevators.
His friend and contributor, Johnnie Bachusky, the Editor at the Innisfail Province, says he and Pearson had collaborated recently on a photography show focusing on the prairie sentinels.
"His passion went beyond my photography of them. It was all about how they worked, how they operated, how they were built, constructed and designed and everything like that. And over the years he kept an amazing data base on every single grain elevator that was built in Western Canada, whether is was corporately or privately owned."
Pearson was also involved heavily in Vulcan and Star Trek, where he designed the large starship sitting outside the Vulcan Tourism and Trek Station..
Pearson was just 57,
A memorial for Pearson is being held at the Cretaceous Conference Centre in Drumheller at 1 p.m. on Friday, January 11.
Source : Discoverairdrie