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uranium mines using a flat-bed truck and tailgate

lift. These barrels were hard to handle by hand and

weighed anywhere from 800-1000 lbs., so when
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he heard that a company called SKB was selling a
small, truck-mounted, hydraulic knuckle boom that
could pick up four barrels at a time, he got into the

lifting business.

Clifford’s son, Scott LaPrairie, now President & CEO,

recalls, “I left high school early and worked with my
Dad lifting engines out of trucks and whatever else

customers wanted moved, when a recession hit

Ontario in the early 80s. Business was slow and we
had a 40-Ton RT740 Grove rough terrain crane that

we were struggling to make payments on. We heard

about an opportunity in northeastern, B.C. with
Denison Mines who was building a coal mine in

HAPPY
40 th

ANNIVERSARY

Congratulations LaPrairie
n 2022, LaPrairie Group of Companies, a crawler and crane rental industry, with many firsts HISTORY on 40 years of business.

Canadian-owned, full-service crane and under its belt—including the very first hydraulic
Wishing you much success
Itransportation and logistics company, celebrates crawler cranes in Alberta and British Columbia. With
Clifford LaPrairie Sr. started in the lifting business in in the next 40 years to come,
40 years of providing solutions for clients in fleet lifting capacities up to 650 tons and one of from your partners at NAPA.
Eliot Lake, Ontario. A Ford dealer and Gulf Oil agent
Western Canada. the newest fleets in the industry, LaPrairie provides
in at the time, he was delivering 45-gallon barrels
clients with the confidence and proven reliability
of hydraulic and motor oil to the local underground
Over four decades, LaPrairie has pioneered the that comes with the “LaPrairie Advantage”.

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