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March 16th 2007 Mike Stobbs

Schmitz/Lasby Barn

Located just minutes north of Moose Jaw is the 21,000 square foot Gambrel roofed barn.
It was built in the 1920's and took over 6,000 man hours to build.
These large barns are a rare site nowadays and the cost would be in the millon's to construct.


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Stu Surma 04-Oct-2019 20:04
Posted this picture on the Web site- Old Barns & Farms just the other day from I took going past Moose Jaw a week ago!! One of the biggest barns I had ever seen!! Stu Surma, Java, S.D.
Tim Lasby jr 27-Jan-2019 19:52
Dutch where is this farm located and Gordon Knox I'm Tim Lasby I would like to come see the farm sometime and even help out on some of the fieldwork that you do where are you guys located at this is really interesting to me I would like to exchange phone numbers sometime and meet you men sometime
Tim Lasby 27-Jan-2019 18:03
I might be the only LASBY left farming right now I have a small farm but I would love to have this huge Farm glad to see that my family blood goes back to farming I love farming cows
Robin Matthews 29-Nov-2016 00:53
Wonderful history and genealogy. just had a great visit with James Hume, father of my daughter's husband, over Thanksgiving in Big Bear mountains east of Los Angles. James told us all about the "big barns" and I must say they are larger than any I've seen in Texas. My wife and I live in Texas. Keep up the good work of restoration and if we are ever up your way we'll drop in and say "howdy."
Guest 22-Dec-2014 20:19
I'm one of the Schmitz that bought this barn in 1988. The Schmitz family has spent tens of thousands of dollars restoring this barn and without such efforts it probably would have collapsed by now. We use this barn for many occasions including weddings, private parties and conferences. We continue to restore barn every summer so if you are in the area then please come by and help out.
David S Jones 18-Mar-2014 15:36
Hello cousins Gord and Craig! Nice shot of the barn. We got to go inside in 2004, and it was still in good shape considering the weather it endures. It shure would be nice to have it restored and used for something again (ie horse camp for kids/teens).
Craig Lasby 05-Sep-2013 13:28
Like Gordon Knox, Percy Lasby was my great-grandfather. My father Percy was named after him, as my dad was born in the year that my great-grandfather passed (i.e. 1932). Great to see a picture of the barn, as I have not been inside the barn since the early 1980's and now live in Melbourne Australia.
James Hume 28-Aug-2013 18:12
This is really neat. My stepfather was a Lasby cousin and I remember them well. Many interesting experiences
Gordon Knox 22-Jan-2013 03:34
Percy Lasby was my great-grandfather and I farm the land directly across the road from these very barns still today. They are very impressive from the picture shown but they are even more impressive from the inside! The foundation, walls and roof are as true today as the day they were built. I've been in them many times while the farm was still in our family and the effort to build such as structure today is staggering let alone what effort it was to build them in the 20's. I have an aerial photograph (measuring 3' x 2') of these barns, the farm and the surrounding country-side, taken during harvest, sometime in the 50's, which hangs proudly in my home.
Dutch 30-Jan-2010 03:38
Percival Lasby had this barn built in 1926. It was 6076 1/2 carpenter hours, 156,000 shingles, 173,000 feet of lumber, 800 yards of stone, 2,350 bags of cement, 150 headstock grain bins for 5,000 bushels of grain. Percival was the son of Levi Lasby (1852-1897) and Mary Beal, who was brother to my great-great grandfather Fredrick Lasby (1840-1879). Levi was the son of Joseph Lasby (1810-1878) & Matilda Crowther of Elora, Ontario. Joseph was son of Charles Lasby (1782-1870) and wife Margaret Challenor who immigrated to Canada circa 1828 from Milwich, Staffordshire, England.
LM Gildersleeve19-Mar-2007 23:50
Very impressive structure. I like the perspective, stubbled grasses and ice.
Cindi Smith17-Mar-2007 01:55
Now that is one heck of a barn! I love this! I just love barns! Vote!
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