_________image_________ Park Farm, located 12 miles SE of Wainwright, was home to many over the years. It has since been completely demolished. It’s Employees Permanent employees of the park included wardens, gatekeepers, farm foreman, one repairman, and six to eight teamsters. Additional staff was hired to assist with haying, harvesting, fencing and roundups. Warden duties consisted of patrol of fence lines, repairs care of the bison, spotting poachers (which was not a great problem), and guiding tours of sightseers. Park Farm, twelve miles southeast of town, housed most of the staff, sporting a warden’s house. Also located here were two barns, blacksmith shop, cookhouse, granaries, sheds for equipment and a water tower. The yard was fenced and well maintained, buildings and fences painted regularly. An abbatoir was built southwest of the farm site, when it was decided to begin scheduled kills to control bison population. Threshing gangs harvested the oats, which were delivered to a huge cement - floored granary. A steep runway led to the top of the building; wagons were roped to a pulley at the far end of the granary, and attached to a team of horses. This apparatus pulled and positioned the wagon for unloading into the bins. Spouts exited the bins for convenient loading when removal was necessary. The farm supplied Banff and Jasper parks with grain, hauled to Wainwright and shipped by rail. July and August began the haying season resulting in 1500 tons salvaged for winter supplement feed. Four mowers and three rakes readied the meadow hay for crews to fork into balers. This task sometimes lasted into October. Fencing crews began repairs after the spring thaw and continued until freeze-up. The 14-foot posts were often broken and new ones reset in the same holes.