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The benefits and burdens of feedgrain transportation policy

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Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Description Level
Item
Date Range
1970
Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Collection
Manitoba Pool Elevator Library Collection
Creator
Lerohl, M. L
MacEachern, G. A. (Gordon A.), jt. auth
Vandermeulen, H. M, jt. auth
Keer, T. C
Uhrig, W
Yorgason, V. W
Agricultural Economics Research Council of Canada
Description Level
Item
Item Number
Archives 14-2-16
Item Number Range
Archives 14-2-16
Responsibility
by M. L. Lerohl, G. A MacEachern and H. Vandermeulen ; rlated technical studies conducted by T. C. Kerr, W. Uhrig and V. W. Yorgason
Start Date
1970
Date Range
1970
Publication
Ottawa : Agricultural Economics Research Council of Canada
Physical Description
ii, 164 p. : illus. ; 28 cm
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Subject Access
Grain trade Canada
Grain Transportation
Livestock Canada
Storage Location
Box 2 - Transportation 1
Storage Range
Box 2 - Transportation 1
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The Commission on the costs of transporting grain by rail : [hearings]

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Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Description Level
Item
Date Range
1976
Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Collection
Manitoba Pool Elevator Library Collection
Creator
Canada. Commission on the Costs of Transporting Grain by Rail
Description Level
Item
Item Number
Archives 14-20-1
Archives 14-21-1
Item Number Range
Archives 14-20-1
Archives 14-21-1
Start Date
1976
Date Range
1976
Publication
[Ottawa] : The Commission
Physical Description
36 v. ; 35 cm
Notes
Commissioner: Carl M. Snavely
Subject Access
Grain trade Canada
Grain Canada Transportation Costs
Storage Location
Box 20 - Brandon Area Study & Snavely Hearings (Vol. 1-5)
Box 21 - Snavely Hearings (Vol. 20-36)
Storage Range
Box 20 - Brandon Area Study & Snavely Hearings (Vol. 1-5)
Box 21 - Snavely Hearings (Vol. 20-36)
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The diffusion of Grain-marketing cooperatives in southern Manitoba from 1906 to 1960, with particular emphasis on the periods 1912-17 and 1925-40 / : by Geffrey E. Katz

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Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Description Level
Item
Date Range
1976]
Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Collection
Manitoba Pool Elevator Library Collection
Creator
Katz, Geoffrey E
Description Level
Item
Item Number
Archives 14-3-6
Item Number Range
Archives 14-3-6
Start Date
1976]
Date Range
1976]
Publication
[Ottawa? : Department of Trade and Commerce?
Physical Description
[31] p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm
Notes
"for: Prof C F J Whebell; for: Cultural Geography 230"
Includes bibliographical reference
Subject Access
Grain trade Manitoba
Storage Location
Box 3 - Cooperation 1
Storage Range
Box 3 - Cooperation 1
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Evidence and proceedings before the Commission to inquire into trading in grain future, April 1931

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Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Description Level
Item
Date Range
[1931]
Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Collection
Manitoba Pool Elevator Library Collection
Creator
Canada. Trading in Grain Future, Commission on
Stamp, Josiah, Sir, 1880-1941
Description Level
Item
Item Number
HD 9044.C2E9
Archives 14-18-4
Item Number Range
HD 9044.C2E9
Archives 14-18-4
Standard number
System Control Number 87108223
Start Date
[1931]
Date Range
[1931]
Publication
Winnipeg : Grain Trade News
Physical Description
357 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Notes
Chairman, Sir Josiah Stamp
Subject Access
Grain trade
Speculation
Storage Location
Box 18 - Royal Commissions I & Manitoba II
Storage Range
Box 18 - Royal Commissions I & Manitoba II
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A farmer's reflections on grain marketing

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Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Description Level
Item
Date Range
1969
Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Collection
Manitoba Pool Elevator Library Collection
Creator
Caplan, Joseph
Description Level
Item
Item Number
Archives 14-1-7
Item Number Range
Archives 14-1-7
Responsibility
by Joseph Caplan
Start Date
1969
Date Range
1969
Publication
Prince Albert, Sask. : [s.n.]
Physical Description
26 leaves : tables ; 28 cm
Subject Access
Grain trade Canada
Storage Location
Box 1-Agriculture I
Storage Range
Box 1-Agriculture I
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The first fifty years : a history of United Grain Growers Limited

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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
Colquette, R. D
Description Level
Item
Item Number
HD 9044.C33U54
Archives 14-23-6
Item Number Range
HD 9044.C33U54
Archives 14-23-6
Standard number
System Control Number 76203299
Responsibility
R. D. Colquette
Start Date
c1957
Date Range
c1957
Publication
Winnipeg : Public Press Limited
Physical Description
vii, 309 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Notes
Includes index
Name Access
United Grain Growers Limited
Subject Access
Grain trade Canada
Agriculture
Cooperative Canada
Storage Location
Box 23 - Historical VI (Archives copy)
Storage Range
Box 23 - Historical VI (Archives copy)
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Grain marketing methods in Canada

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Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Description Level
Item
Date Range
1935
Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Collection
Manitoba Pool Elevator Library Collection
Creator
Agricultural Institute of Canada
Description Level
Item
Item Number
Archives 14-4-9
Item Number Range
Archives 14-4-9
Start Date
1935
Date Range
1935
Publication
Ottawa, Ont. : Canadian Society of Technical Agriculturists
Physical Description
292 p. : ill. ; 1935
Notes
Reprinted from the June, 1935, issue of the C.S.T.A. review
Subject Access
Grain trade
Storage Location
Box 4-Historical I
Storage Range
Box 4-Historical I
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Grain trade year book

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Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Collection
Manitoba Pool Elevator Library Collection
Creator
William Sanford Evans Statistical Service, Winnipeg
Description Level
Item
Item Number
Archives 14-1-1
Item Number Range
Archives 14-1-1
Responsibility
by W. Sanford Evans Statistical Service
Publication
Winnipeg : Dawson Richardson Publications Ltd
Physical Description
v. ; 19 cm
Subject Access
Grain trade Canada
Grain trade Tables
Storage Location
Box 1 - Agriculture I
Storage Range
Box 1 - Agriculture I
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Interregional competition in Canadian cereal production

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Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Description Level
Item
Date Range
1970
Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Collection
Manitoba Pool Elevator Library Collection
Creator
Craddock, W. J
Economic Council of Canada
Description Level
Item
Item Number
HD 9044.C25C7
Archives 14-1-2
Item Number Range
HD 9044.C25C7
Archives 14-1-2
Responsibility
prepared for the Economic Council of Canada by W. J. Craddock
Start Date
1970
Date Range
1970
Publication
[Ottawa : Economic Council of Canada
Publisher Series
Special study ; no. 12
Physical Description
vii, 257 p. : ill., maps (part col.) ; 25 cm
Notes
Bibliography: p. 245-247
Subject Access
Grain trade Canada Mathematical models
Storage Location
Box 1-Agriculture I (Archives copy)
Storage Range
Box 1-Agriculture I (Archives copy)
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The New era in world agricultural trade : perspectives for the Prairies and the Great Plains : proceedings of a seminar jointly sponsored by the Department of Agricultural Economics, Universities of Minnesota and Manitoba in Winnipeg on November 13-15, 1979

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Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Description Level
Item
Date Range
1980
Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Collection
Manitoba Pool Elevator Library Collection
Creator
Tyrchniewicz, Edward W., 1941
University of Manitoba. Dept. of Agricultural Economics and Farm Management
Description Level
Item
Item Number
Archives 14-2-12
Item Number Range
Archives 14-2-12
Responsibility
E.W. Tyrchniewicz, editor
Start Date
1980
Date Range
1980
Publication
Winnipeg : Dept. of Agricultural Economics and Farm Management, University of Manitoba
Publisher Series
Occasional series / Department of Agricultural Economics and Farm Management, University of Manitoba ; no. 12
Physical Description
vi, 157 p. ; 28 cm
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Subject Access
Produce trade Congresses
Agriculture International cooperation Congresses
Grain trade Prairie Provinces Congresses
Produce trade Prairie Provinces Congresses
Storage Location
Box 2 - Transportation 1
Storage Range
Box 2 - Transportation 1
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Reg Forbes collection

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Part Of
RG 5 Western Manitoba Manuscript Collection
Description Level
Collection
GMD
multiple media
Date Range
1970-1977; predominant 1975-1976
Accession Number
17-2002
Part Of
RG 5 Western Manitoba Manuscript Collection
Description Level
Collection
Accession Number
17-2002
GMD
multiple media
Date Range
1970-1977; predominant 1975-1976
Physical Description
5 m textual records; approx. 30 photographs
History / Biographical
Reg Forbes was born September 16, 1924. He and his wife Clara have two children, Bob and Faye. Forbes served in the Royal Canadian Air Force as a Navigator during World War II. From 1945-1949, he attended the University of Manitoba where he received his B.Sc.A. While working as Village Councillor and as Secretary-Treasurer for the Pilot Mound Hospital, Forbes initiated the "Save the Soil Campaign," a soil conservation programme that became province-wide, between 1952-1962. From 1956-1975, Forbes was the Principal of the Agricultrual Extension Centre in Brandon, where he reorganized the Adult Education Centre into the Agricultural Extension Centre. During this period, Forbes was a founding member of the West-Man Regional Development Corporation and a founder of the Manitoba Committee on Rural Leadership. He was also instrumental in the amalgamation of the Royal Manitoba Winter Fair and the Provincial Exhibition and in the resulting construction of the Keystone Centre. From 1975-1977 Forbes was a Commissioner for the Grain Handling and Transportation Commission (Hall Commission/GHTC). Following his work with the Commission, Forbes was employed as the General Manager of the Provincial Exhibition of Manitoba (1977-1979), the Director of the Grain Handling & Transportation Section of the Manitoba Department of Agriculture (1979-1983), the Industrial Commissioner for the Brandon Industrial Commission (1983-1986), and as the Westarc Group Inc. Project Director for delivery under contract of Canadian Rural Transition Programme in Manitoba. Forbes also held a number of voluntary and elected positions, such as Long-term Director and President of the Royal Manitoba Winter Fair and of the Provincial Exhibition of Manitoba. In 1970-1971, he was the President of the Agricultural Institute of Canada, and from 1978-1981, Forbes was the first chairman of the Agricultural Advisory Committee of the Canadian Broadcasting Corportation. He was also a member of the Canada West Foundation Board, the Brandon University Board of Governers (1974-1976), and the Federal-Provincial Transportation and Industrial Development Advisory Committee (TIDAC). Forbes is also a Fellow of the Agricultural Institute of Canada. In 1977, he received the Jubilee Medal and in 1987, he was given the Distinguished Agrologist Award by the Manitoba Institute of Agrologists.
Custodial History
Reg Forbes donated his working collection of briefs, correspondence and other documents relating to his work as a commissioner of the Grain Handling and Transportation Committee (GHTC) to the McKee Archives c. 1985.
Scope and Content
The majority of the collection consists of records created and received by the Royal Commission on Grain Handling and Transportation (GHTC). Included are documents detailing numerious hearings from all four Western provinces. In addition to the GHTC hearings, there are also a number of documents given to the GHTC as reference material. These include information on the Snavely Commision, documents for the province of Alberta, various reports, the Prairie Regional Studies in Economic Geography (No. 1-27) and General Information. The collection also includes two maps given to the GHTC.
Notes
CAIN No. 202599. Description by Christy Henry.
Subject Access
Justice Hall
Canadian Pacific Railway
Canadian National Railway
Grains Group
Royal Commissions
Agriculture
Grain Trade
Railroad Transportation
Storage Location
2002 accessions
Storage Range
2002 accessions
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Review of government grain policy

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Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Description Level
Item
Date Range
1972-1974
Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Collection
Manitoba Pool Elevator Library Collection
Creator
Wilson, Charles F., 1907
Grains Group (Canada)
Description Level
Item
Item Number
Archives 14-1-14
Item Number Range
Archives 14-1-14
Responsibility
Charles F. Wilson
Start Date
1972-1974
Date Range
1972-1974
Publication
[Ottawa : Canadian Wheat Board, Grains Group]
Physical Description
4 v. : ill. ; 28 cm
Notes
Includes bibliographies and indexes
Pt. 1. Introduction and part I : summary of events to 1930 -- pt. 2. The search for a policy -- pt. 3. From voluntary to compulsory board -- pt. 4. The assurance of markets
Subject Access
Grain Law and legislation Canada
Grain trade Law and legislation Canada
Storage Location
Box 1-Agriculture I
Storage Range
Box 1-Agriculture 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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Submission to the Commission on the costs of transporting grain by rail on behalf of Canadian National and CP Rail, April 19, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba

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Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Description Level
Item
Date Range
1976
Part Of
RG 4 Manitoba Pool Elevator fonds
Collection
Manitoba Pool Elevator Library Collection
Creator
Saunders, W. B
Canadian National
Canadian Pacific Limited
Description Level
Item
Item Number
Archives 14-22-1
Item Number Range
Archives 14-22-1
Responsibility
by W.B. Saunders
Start Date
1976
Date Range
1976
Publication
Winnipeg : Canadian National
Physical Description
69 p. ; 36 cm
Notes
"Summary statement of the Railways, Canadian National [and] CP Rail"
"April 19, 1976"
Subject Access
Grain trade Canada
Grain Canada Transportation Costs
Storage Location
Box 22
Storage Range
Box 22
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