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The Canadian Wheat Board (French: Commission canadienne du blé) was a marketing board for wheat and barley in Western Canada.Established by the Parliament of Canada on 5 July 1935, its operation was governed by the Canadian Wheat Board Act as a mandatory producer marketing system for wheat and barley in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and a small part of British Columbia. [1]
Operates Alberta's electrical grid and electricity generation market (which as of November 2023, is 46% owned by TransAlta [6] [7]). Affordability and Utilities: Alberta Utilities Commission: Regulatory/Adjudicative Responsible for regulating the utilities sector, natural gas, and electricity markets. Affordability and Utilities: Balancing Pool ...
In 1923, the United Farmers of Alberta met with then Attorney General John Edward Brownlee to consider setting up a Wheat Pool just in Alberta. On the advice of Aaron Sapiro, a California lawyer they created a non-share, non-profit organization responsible solely for selling wheat for the best advantage. It was set up as a one-man, one-vote ...
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 ...
A friend of his sent him seed from Glasgow in 1842. It is a good yielding wheat, high in quality; an excellent milling wheat. It was grown in Canada from 1860 to 1900, and was the industry standard. Ladoga, 1888. A variety originally from Russia. Early maturing, and the parent of Preston and Stanley. Hard Red Calcutta, 1890. A variety from ...
Alberta Central Railroad Museum – former Alberta Wheat Pool, second oldest standing grain elevator in Alberta, moved from Hobbema. [2] Andrew – former Alberta Wheat Pool, restored into a museum. Castor – former Alberta Pacific, restored into a museum. [3] Big Valley – Alberta Wheat Pool used as a museum complete with a train station and ...
Viterra Inc. was formed in 2007 as a publicly traded corporation when the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool acquired Agricore United, which was at that time the largest grain handler in Western Canada. Viterra's predecessors were the grain-trading co-operatives set up in Canada during the 1920s known as the wheat pools .