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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)
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]
Marine A grain elevator, also part of the "elevator alley" and across from the Lake & Rail Grain Elevator. The Standard Elevator , was named after the Standard Milling Company and built in 1926. Wollenberg Grain and Seed Elevator , wooden "country style" elevator formerly located in Buffalo, New York; destroyed by fire in October 2006.
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.
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.
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 ...