Washington, D. C. : Farmer Cooperative Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Publisher Series
FCS information ; 49
Physical Description
[6] p. ; 23 cm
Notes
Cover title
A copy of each of these publications may be obtained upon request while a supply is available from Farmer Cooperative Service U.S. Department of Agriculture
31 cm textual records;
1 b&w photograph - approx. 50 x 20cm (torn in half);
1 ribbon from the International Pool Conference of 1928
History / Biographical
Leslie Victor Robson was born in Deleau, Manitoba in 1893. Following graduation from the Manitoba Agricultural College in 1915, he began a career in farming near Deleau, Manitoba. Robson married Edna Chapman in 1917. He was active in farm organizations, the co-operative movement and the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation. Robson focused his farming activities on raising purebread polled herefords. His stock was exhibited across Canada and the United States and sold in Great Britain, Japan and Czechoslovakia. In 1977, he was made a member of the Canadian Hereford Honour Roll. Leslie Victor Robson died in 1977.
Custodial History
This fonds was donated to the McKee Archives in 1995 by Clarke M. Robson of Deleau, Manitoba.
Scope and Content
This fonds contains booklets and issues of newspapers from the Canadian prairie provinces concerning the CCF, the Independant Labor Party, the UFM, the Canadian farming co-op movement, Manitoba Pool Elevators, and the early NDP. Also included are publications of the CCF including "The Commonwealth," the Canadian Department of Agriculture, the League for Social Reconstruction, the NDP, the UFM, and Manitoba Pool Elevators. The single photograph is a group picture of mostly men taken at the International Wheat Conference of 1926 in St. Paul, Minnesota. It includes Colin H. Burnell, Fawcett W. Ransom, and Dick Mahoney.
First lessons in composition : in which the principles of the art are developed in connection with the principles of grammar; embracing full directions on the subject of punctuation, with copious exercises
Winnipeg, Man. : Warren Co-operative Elevator Association
Physical Description
1 folder ; 38 cm
Notes
By- law no. 5-- Schedule "A"-- Auditors' report-- Warren Co-operative Elevator Association operating account : for the year ended July 31st, 1950-- Board of directors' resolution-- Meeting of the provisional board of directors-- Warren : March 27th, 1948-- Warren Co-operative Elevator Association to the honourable the provincial secretary of the province of Manitoba
