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The Pool attempted to purchase United Grain Growers Ltd., but the attempt failed. Instead, the Wheat Pool began to build more elevators and terminals. By the late 1960s the Wheat Pool had 567 elevators. Alberta Pool Elevator by the rail line in St. Albert, Alberta. In 1925 wheat prices rose to $2.17 then dropped down to $1.36.
A wheat pool is a co-operative that markets grain (mostly wheat) on behalf of its farmer-members. In Canada in 1923 and 1924, three wheat pools were created. They were farmer-owned co-operatives , created to break the power of the large for-profit corporations, that had dominated the grain trade in Western Canada since the late 19th Century ...
Scandia – 1920s Alberta Wheat Pool now a museum. South Peace Centennial Museum, United Grain Growers moved from Albright. [13] Spruce Grove – Spruce Grove Grain Elevator Museum, 1958 Alberta Wheat Pool, saved from demolition and maintained as an operating museum. St. Albert – 1906 Alberta Grain Co. and 1929 Alberta Wheat Pool Elevators ...
The Spruce Grove and District Agricultural Society stepped in to prevent the demolition of the last elevator, buying it from Alberta Wheat Pool for a $1 along with the 1 acre (4,000 m 2) that the elevator sits on for $35,000. Through donations to the Spruce Grove and District Agricultural Society, they are able to fund the upkeep of this elevator.
In 1917, The Grain Growers' Grain Company Limited and The Alberta Farmers' Cooperative Elevator Company Limited amalgamated to form United Grain Growers Limited (UGG). In 1923, the Alberta Wheat Pool (AWP) was incorporated under the laws of Alberta. In 1924, Manitoba Pool Elevators (MPE) was incorporated under the laws of Manitoba.
The northern twin elevators were built in 1927 to a traditional arrangement with an office building separated from the driveway and elevator by a raised access platform. It decommissioned in 2000 under the Alberta Wheat Pool. The southern elevator was built in 1929, gained a balloon annex in 1956, and was extensively remodeled in 1981.
The 1928 Alberta Wheat Pool elevator was built by Voss Bros for the Alberta Pool Elevator Company in accordance with the standard 40,000-imperial-bushel (1,500 m 3) plan at a cost of $15,300. It measured 34 × 35 × 62 feet (10 × 11 × 19 m); a balloon annex built on the south side in 1940 was removed in 1995.
Meeting Creek, Alberta, 1914 Alberta Pacific elevator [2] open to public for tours. [3] St. Albert Grain Elevator Park, a museum consisting of two elevators an original 1906 Alberta Grain Co. and 1929 Alberta Wheat Pool elevator. Val Marie, Saskatchewan, 1924 Alberta Pacific elevator. [4] Historic (Private-museum);