Alfred Rawlins Fonds: Alberta Wheat Pool and Canadian Wheat Board Business and Correspondence : Company Records, Manuscript;document 1938-1943.

Format:

• Book

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Summary:

Description: This collection consists of drafts of letters to the Editor by Rawlins over the grain marketing system, a rough draft of an essay on the way to handle grain, a Canadian Wheat Board permit (1942-1943) and a complaint made against the Wheat Board, Ogilvie Flour Mills and Alberta Pacific Grain Company.

Notes:

• Alfred Rawlins, 1883-1965, was born near Salisbury, England. He emigrated to the USA in 1903, and worked on ranches in Michigan and Nebraska before moving to Alberta in 1906. He farmed for one year near Taber, then homesteaded at Turin in 1908. He was a founding member of the Alberta Farmers' Cooperative Elevator Company in 1913. The company amalgamated with the Grain Growers' Grain Company in 1917 to become the United Grain Growers. He actively promoted improvement of Canada's grain marketing system, and in 1937 presented a brief to the Turgeon Royal Commission on Grain. He was secretary of the Bow River Drought Area and Retlaw Agricultural Improvement Association. He sold the farm in 1945 and retired to White Rock, British Columbia.
• AMDigital Reference: M-1024-5.
• Description based on online resource (viewed on November 21, 2018).