Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Saskatchewan Co-operative Elevator Company (SCEC) was a farmer-owned enterprise that provided grain storage and handling services to farmers in Saskatchewan, Canada between 1911 and 1926, when its assets were purchased by the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool.
The first president was Alexander James McPhail, and the first grain elevator was built in Bulyea in 1925 (in the area of Section 36, Township 16, Range 15, W of the 2nd meridian). The Saskatchewan Co-operative Wheat Producers Ltd. bought out the Saskatchewan Co-operative Elevator Company in 1926.
Grain Growers Grain Company (1906-2008) Saskatchewan Cooperative Elevator Company (1911–1926) United Grain Growers (1917–2001) Saskatchewan Co-Operative Wheat Producers (1923–1953) Alberta Wheat Pool (1923–1998) Manitoba Pool Elevators (1926–1998) Australian Barley Board (1939–1999) Sask. Wheat Pool (1953–2007) Agricore (1998-2001)
Fleming – oldest standing grain elevator on its original site in Fleming, built in 1895 and maintaining many of its original features. Gravelbourg – Former Saskatchewan Wheat Pool saved from demolition and now a museum. Indian Head – experimental farm grain elevator refurbished as a Café, coffee house.
Pages in category "Grain elevators in Oklahoma" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. ... Ponca City Milling Company Elevator; T.
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 two farm organizations in Saskatchewan lent the pool funds, and the provincial government provided a CAN$45,000 advance. By 6 June 1924 the pool in Saskatchewan had signed up 46,500 contracts covering more than half the acreage in the province. The pool incorporated as the Saskatchewan Co-Operative Wheat Producers. [19]
In 1921, Pioneer had expanded to over 100 country elevators. In 1931, forty-four elevators of the Saskatchewan and Western Elevator companies were amalgamated into Pioneer; these elevators had been operated by the Richardsons since the mid-1920s. In 1947, Pioneer acquired twenty-three elevators from the failed Reliance Grain Company.