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In Saskatchewan premier Thomas Walter Scott arranged for a Royal Commission on Elevators in 1910. The commission recommended a system where the elevators would be cooperatively owned by the farmers rather than by the government. In 1911 legislation was passed by which the Saskatchewan Co-operative Elevator Company (SCEC) was incorporated to run ...
Saskatchewan Co-operative Elevator Company was taken over by the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool in 1926. Saskatchewan Wheat Pool took over Agricore United in 2007 to form Viterra. United Grain Growers was taken over by Agricore United in 2001. Viterra was established after the take-over of Agricore United by the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool.
In 1919, Dunning prepared a report on the gain elevator system, which led to the incorporation of the Saskatchewan Co-operative Elevator Company by the Saskatchewan government. [3] The SCEC was a farmers' cooperative, financed in part by shares purchased by farmers at $7.50 per share, and in part by a loan guarantee from the provincial ...
In Saskatchewan premier Thomas Walter Scott arranged for a Royal Commission on Elevators in 1910. The commission recommended a system where the elevators would be cooperatively owned by the farmers rather than by the government. In 1911 legislation was passed by which the Saskatchewan Co-operative Elevator Company (SCEC) was incorporated to run ...
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]
Saskatchewan. Coderre – derelict; Edam – former Saskatchewan Wheat Pool now a museum. 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.
Saskatchewan Wheat Pool 1924–2007 – renamed Viterra; in 2012 acquired by Glencore and Canada assets sold to Agrium; Manitoba Pool Elevators 1926–1998 – merged to form Agricore Cooperative Limited; Canadian Wheat Board was a government agency responsible for exporting wheat. Created in 1935 by the federal government, its future is now ...
Edward Alexander Partridge (5 November 1861 – 3 August 1931) was a Canadian teacher, farmer, agrarian radical, businessman and author. He was born in Ontario but moved to Saskatchewan where he taught and then became a farmer.