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275 Ton Crane- Bennett Dam Spillway. LaPrairie Works Oilfield Services (LWOS) Coal Haul
when B.C. privatized their highway maintenance in across Canada, the US and overseas, says Scott.
1987. “Recent highlights have included the acquisition of
the heavy hauling divisions of Entrec Alberta Ltd.,
“One of my current partners and our CFO, Jim including their division in Fort McMurray, and in
Feragen, joined the team and helped me bid on Grande Prairie known as Capstan Hauling. We also
a few contracts. We drove just about the whole expanded our crane division into Manitoba and
province, bid on five service areas, and were Northern Ontario with two new locally owned and
awarded two, Fort St. John and Quesnel,” says operated branches in Winnipeg and Brandon, MB.”
Scott. This was the beginning of Northland Road
Services. In the late nineties, Alberta also privatized THE 40-YEAR MILESTONE
their highway maintenance and the company
was awarded the service area surrounding Peace “I am proud of our growth over the past 40-years,”
River. And this is the common thread that ties the says Scott. What started out as a two-man, one
40 years of LaPrairie together. A Can-do attitude crane operation in Tumbler Ridge, BC, has grown to
married with experience and effective solutions. a 600+ employee group within 7 operating divisions
accompanied by one of the largest private fleets in
Over the past 25+ years since, LaPrairie has Canada.
continued to expand its service area and currently
maintains over 4000 kms of highway infrastructure “It took a lot of hard work and determination
across northern and central Alberta. to get here. It has helped that we have a strong
management group that has been with us for most
Since these major milestones, LaPrairie has of our 40-years in business,” says Scott. LaPrairie is
continued to expand its operations for all divisions the definition of a family business. Scott’s long
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