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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.
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.
The Saskatchewan Wheat Pool was a grain handling, agri-food processing and marketing company based in Regina, Saskatchewan.The Pool created a network of marketing alliances in North America and internationally which made it the largest agricultural grain handling operation in the province of Saskatchewan.
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.
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 ...
Hepburn Museum of Wheat, a grain elevator built by Saskatchewan Wheat Pool in 1928 at the end of main street along the Canadian National Railway.It now stands as a museum that depicts the history of the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool, the Canadian National Railway and farmer.
The United Grain Growers elevator, also built in 1928, was sold to the Wheat Pool in the late 1960s and was also closed and torn down in the 1970s. [8] Today, little remains. Only one of the two elevators, the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool elevator, still stands. There are two houses left. One, belonged to a huge family and the other belonged to an ...
Completed in 1925, the grain elevator was constructed by a co-operative of Canadian wheat farmers known as the Saskatchewan Co-operative Elevator Company. [2] The cooperative owned the elevator until 1945 but turned over daily operations to Superior Grain Corporation, an offshoot of the Superior Elevator.