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Agriculture in an interdependent world : U.S. and Canadian perspectives

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Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Description Level
Item
Date Range
1977
Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Collection
Manitoba Pool Elevator Library Collection
Creator
Warley, T. K. (Thorald Keith), 1930
Canadian-American Committee
Description Level
Item
Item Number
Archives 14-1-25
Item Number Range
Archives 14-1-25
Responsibility
by T.K. Warley
Start Date
1977
Date Range
1977
Publication
[Montreal] : Canadian-American Committee
Physical Description
x, 92 p. ; 23 cm
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Subject Access
Agriculture Economic aspects Canada
Agriculture Economic aspects United States
Agriculture and state Canada
Agriculture and state United States
Storage Location
Box 1-Agriculture I
Storage Range
Box 1-Agriculture I
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Agriculture in an unstable economy

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Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Description Level
Item
Date Range
1945
Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Collection
Manitoba Pool Elevator Library Collection
Creator
Schultz, Theodore William, 1902
Description Level
Item
Item Number
HD 1761.S27
Archives 14-4-18
Item Number Range
HD 1761.S27
Archives 14-4-18
Standard number
System Control Number 87055009
Responsibility
by Theodore W. Schultz
Start Date
1945
Date Range
1945
Publication
New York : McGraw-Hill
Publisher Series
Committee for Economic Development. Research study
Physical Description
xix, 299 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Notes
Bibliographical foot-notes
Subject Access
Agriculture and state United States
Agriculture Economic aspects United States
Storage Location
Box 4-Historical I (Archives copy)
Storage Range
Box 4-Historical I (Archives copy)
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The city man's guide to the farm problem

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Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Description Level
Item
Date Range
1966
Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Collection
Manitoba Pool Elevator Library Collection
Creator
Cochrane, Willard Wesley, 1914
Description Level
Item
Item Number
Archives 14-4-2
Item Number Range
Archives 14-4-2
Responsibility
[by] Willard W. Cochrane
Start Date
1966
Date Range
1966
Publication
New York ; Toronto : McGraw-Hill Book Company
Physical Description
242 p. ; 20 cm
Notes
Bibliographical footnotes
Subject Access
Agriculture Economic aspects United States
United States Rural conditions
Storage Location
Box 4-Historical I
Storage Range
Box 4-Historical I
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The economics of cooperative marketing

http://archives.brandonu.ca/en/permalink/specialcollections241
Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Description Level
Item
Date Range
1937
Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Collection
Manitoba Pool Elevator Library Collection
Creator
Bakken, Henry Harrison, 1896
Schaars, Marvin Arnold
Description Level
Item
Item Number
Archives 14-8-14
Item Number Range
Archives 14-8-14
Responsibility
by Henry H. Bakken and Marvin A. Schaars
Start Date
1937
Date Range
1937
Publication
New York ; London : McGraw Hill Book Company, inc
Physical Description
viii, 583 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Notes
Includes bibliographical reference and index
Subject Access
Agriculture
Cooperative United States
Agriculture Economic aspects
Agriculture Economic aspects United States
Agriculture cooperative credit associations United States
Farm produce Marketing
Storage Location
Box 8 - Historical IV & Cooperation II
Storage Range
Box 8 - Historical IV & Cooperation II
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Farmer in a business suit

http://archives.brandonu.ca/en/permalink/specialcollections156
Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Description Level
Item
Date Range
c1957
Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Collection
Manitoba Pool Elevator Library Collection
Creator
Davis, John Herbert, 1904
Hinshaw, Kenneth
Description Level
Item
Item Number
Archives 14-4-21
Item Number Range
Archives 14-4-21
Responsibility
John H. Davis and Kenneth Hinshaw
Start Date
c1957
Date Range
c1957
Publication
New York : Simon and Schuster
Physical Description
241 p. ; 22 cm
Subject Access
Agriculture Economic aspects United States
Storage Location
Box 4-Historical I
Storage Range
Box 4-Historical I
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Farms and farmers in an urban age

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Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Description Level
Item
Date Range
1963
Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Collection
Manitoba Pool Elevator Library Collection
Creator
Higbee, Edward Counselman, 1910
Description Level
Item
Item Number
HD 1761.H53
Archives 14-4-28
Item Number Range
HD 1761.H53
Archives 14-4-28
Responsibility
Edward C. Higbee
Start Date
1963
Date Range
1963
Publication
New York : Twentieth Century Fund
Physical Description
183 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Notes
Includes bibliography
Subject Access
Agriculture Economic aspects United States
Rural-urban migration United States
Storage Location
Box 4-Historical I (Archives copy)
Storage Range
Box 4-Historical I (Archives copy)
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Forward prices for agriculture

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Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Description Level
Item
Date Range
c1947
Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Collection
Manitoba Pool Elevator Library Collection
Creator
Johnson, D. Gale (David Gale), 1916
Description Level
Item
Item Number
Archives 14-4-7
Item Number Range
Archives 14-4-7
Responsibility
by D. Gale Johnson
Start Date
c1947
Date Range
c1947
Publication
Chicago, Ill. : Univ. of Chicago Press
Physical Description
xiii, 259 p. ; 24 cm
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Subject Access
Prices United States
Agriculture Economic aspects United States
Storage Location
Box 4-Historical I
Storage Range
Box 4-Historical I
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RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds

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Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Description Level
Fonds
GMD
multiple media
Date Range
1874-2001, predominant 1930-1970
Accession Number
16-1998, 28-1998, 16-2002
Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Accession Number
16-1998, 28-1998, 16-2002
GMD
multiple media
Date Range
1874-2001, predominant 1930-1970
Physical Description
64.69 m textual records
photographs
slides
audiovisual materials
History / Biographical
The forerunner of Manitoba Pool Elevators (MPE), the Manitoba Wheat Pool was created in 1924 as a mechanism to allow for the co-operative marketing of wheat by Manitoba producers by the United Farmers of Manitoba. The Manitoba Wheat Pool was initially intended to be a provisional organization until the establishment of an interprovincial Pool, but when Alberta and Saskatchewan established their own permanent Pools the United Farmers decided to do the same. The Manitoba Pool was different from the SK and AB Pools in that the municipality was the primary unit of organization; members belonged to their municipal Pool associations first, rather than having direct membership with the central Manitoba Wheat Pool. Manitoba Pool Elevators was established in 1925 as a subsidiary of the Pool in response to local members complaints about the unfair business practices of privately owned elevators. The private elevators also slowed up the shipment of grain to the Central Selling Agency employed by the Wheat Pool, acting as a barrier between the local Pools and the Manitoba Wheat Pool. Once established MPE quickly began to build new elevators and aquire privately owned elevators. MPE's approach to marketing grain promised to stabilize the market price of grain and ensure a fair market price to producers. Initially the Manitoba Wheat Pool was very successful. However, in 1930, the Manitoba Wheat Pool found itself burdened with an unsold surplus from the preceding year that had been bought from the farmers at a price that was significantly higher than any possible return during the Depression. As a result, in 1931 the Manitoba Wheat Pool's Central Selling Agency defaulted on its bank loans. Despite attempts to save the organization, it was forced to declare bankruptcy in November 1932. The financial difficulties of the Wheat Pool had little to no effect on the Pool Elevators, and so this former subsidiary organization became the main Manitoba Pool organization. This change meant MPE had to reorganize, which they were able to do with funds from the provincial government. The company was successful enough in subsequent years that it was able to finish repaying the Manitoba government a full year early in 1949. MPE did not limit itself to grain handling; they wished to enrich the lives of rural families through education and to provide economic stability through diversification. MPE established a lending reference library for members and a traveling library for rural families in 1926. With the passing of the Public Libraries Act in 1948, the province took over responsibility for providing rural families with books. MPE decided that since their traveling library would no longer be needed when rural libraries were established, the best course of action was to donate their library to the Provincial government. They also established and supported programs that educated young people about agriculture and ag business. Subsidiary companies that dealt with course grains, livestock, packing and fertilizer were established by MPE to streamline and stabilize business for its members. 1961 marked the high water mark for the number of local associations within Manitoba Pool Elevators with 225 local associations. After this date the associations began to amalgamate and consolidate. Improvements in rural roads and rail systems and increases in the size of farms and mechanization of farm labour meant that fewer elevators were needed to service all members and regions. These changes led to an organizational restructuring of Manitoba Pool Elevators in 1968. Membership became direct, and the main unit of organization became the central office. The central office administrated the Pool through districts, which were further subdivided into sub-districts. The locals which were formally the main organizational unit came under the immediate direction of the sub-district they were located in. Local association could opt out of this system if they wished, but by 1975 all but 29 associations had become part of the new structure. In 1998 Manitoba Pool Elevators merged with the Alberta Wheat Pool to form Agricore Co-operative, Ltd. In 2001 this organization merged with the United Grain Growers to become Agricore United, and in 2007 AU was taken over by the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool; the new company is currently known as Viterra.
Custodial History
The bulk of this fonds was accessioned in 1975, when the forerunner to the McKee Archives at Brandon University, the Rural Resource Center, was founded. The original mandate of the Rural Resource Center was to house the records of the Manitoba Pool Elevators. Previous to this, most of the fonds was stored at MPE's head office in Winnipeg. Many accruals to this collection have since taken place, with some of the larger ones being received in 1997, 2001, and 2002.
Scope and Content
Fonds contains records dealing with every aspect of the Manitoba Pool Elevators organization, from the events leading to its formation in the 1920's, to its amalgamation as part of Agricore beginning in the late 1990's. Fonds includes records of the local co-operative elevator associations established in the period 1925 - 1968 under the Co-operative Associations Act including: organizational papers; minutes of executive boards; minutes of shareholders annual meetings; financial statements; correspondence; membership lists; and miscellaneous documents. Also to be found are: documents related to the Royal Commission re the Manitoba Pool Elevators Limited ca. 1931; miscellaneous reports and submissions documents (1925 -1952); central office papers consisting of annual reports, circulars to local co-operative elevator associations and documents related to various other activities of the Manitoba Pool Elevators organization. Fonds also contains documents pertaining to the Manitoba Co-operative Poultry Marketing Association Limited and its successor, the Manitoba Dairy and Poultry Co-operative Limited, and related agencies. Other items in the fonds (dating from the 1890's to 2001) include: books acquired for the Manitoba Pool Elevator Library, including a complete run of both the Scoop Shovel (MPE's first newspaper)and the Manitoba Cooperator; photographs; slides; audiotapes; and reel-to-reel videos. Finally, the fonds contains a small number of miscellaneous items such as banners, and company issued briefcases. This fonds is organized into four series, (A) Local Association records, (B) Central Office Records, (C) Subsidiary Companies and Co-operatives, (D) Commissions, Committees and Inquiries
Notes
Description by Mike White (2002), revised and enlarged by Jillian Sutherland (2009-2010).
History/Bio taken from F.W. Hamilton, "Service at Cost: A History of the Manitoba Pool Elevators 1925-1975" (Saskatoon: Modern Press) and from records within the fonds.
Preparation of this description made possible in part by a generous grant from the Brandon University Student's Union Work Study Program 2009.
Name Access
F.W. Hamilton
Paul F. Bredt
Colin H. Burnell
John I. McFarland
A.J. McPhail
J.R. Murray
W.J. Parker
Henry W. Wood
Subject Access
Manitoba Co-operator
Canadian Agriculture
Cooperative Unions
Grain Trade
The Scoop Shovel
Winnipeg Grain Exchange
Agricore
United Grain Growers
Manitoba Wheat Pool
Canadian Cooperative Wheat Producers Ltd
Canadian Wheat Board
Alberta Wheat Pool
Border Fertilizer Ltd
Canadian Council of Agriculture
Saskatchewan Cooperative Elevator Company
Saskatchewan Wheat Pool
United Farmers of Manitoba
United Farmers of Alberta
Repro Restriction
Researchers are responsible for observing Canadian copyright restrictions.
Finding Aid
File level inventory available for some boxes. The Pool Elevator library and publications are available online through the Brandon University Library catalogue.
Storage Location
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
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Roots in the earth : the small farmer looks ahead

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Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Description Level
Item
Date Range
c1943
Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Collection
Manitoba Pool Elevator Library Collection
Creator
Waring, P. Alston (Pinckney Alston), 1895-1978
Teller, Walter Magnes
Description Level
Item
Item Number
Archives 14-11-19
Item Number Range
Archives 14-11-19
Responsibility
P. Alston Waring and Walter Magnes Teller ; foreword by Louis Bromfield
Start Date
c1943
Date Range
c1943
Publication
New York ; London : Harper & Brothers Publishers
Physical Description
xiii, 202 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
Notes
Includes index
Subject Access
Farms United States
Agriculture United States
Agriculture Economic aspects United States
Storage Location
Box 11 - Agriculture II
Storage Range
Box 11 - Agriculture II
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Roots of the farm problem : changing technology, changing capital use, changing labor needs

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Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Description Level
Item
Date Range
1965
Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Collection
Manitoba Pool Elevator Library Collection
Creator
Heady, Earl Orel, 1916
Iowa State University. Center for Agricultural and Economic Development
Description Level
Item
Item Number
Archives 14-4-24
Item Number Range
Archives 14-4-24
Responsibility
Earl O. Heady ... [et al.]
Start Date
1965
Date Range
1965
Publication
Ames, Iowa, U.S.A. : Iowa State University Center for Agricultural and Economic Development : the Iowa State University Press
Physical Description
ix, 224 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Access
Agriculture Economic aspects United States
Storage Location
Box 4-Historical I
Storage Range
Box 4-Historical I
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