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181:(1860–1943) and Peter Dayman of the Abernathy district arranged a follow-up meeting. The farmers agreed to form a Territorial Grain Growers' Association (TGGA), and nominated Motherwell as provisional president and John Millar as provisional secretary. The first annual convention of the TGGA was held on 1 February 1902, attended by delegates from 38 local groups. In 1905 Alberta and Saskatchewan became provinces. The Alberta branch of the TGGA became the
138:, and was formed in 1906 after Saskatchewan became a province. It provided a voice for farmers in their struggle with grain dealers and the railways, and was influential in obtaining favorable legislation. The association initially resisted calls to create a farmer-owned marketing company. Later it did support formation of the
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organizers, inspired by their success in
Alberta, began campaigns to sign up farmers in Saskatchewan and Alberta. The two farm organizations in Saskatchewan lent the pool funds, and the provincial government provided a CAN$ 45,000 advance. By 6 June 1924 the pool in Saskatchewan had signed up 46,500
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spoke at the SGGA convention that year, and attacked the grain handling system. He said the elevator companies, millers and exporters rigged grain prices so they were low during the fall harvest period, when farmers had to sell to obtain cash to pay their debts. They then made future contracts to
268:(SCEC) was incorporated to run elevators under this model. The SCEC was a joint-stock cooperative company whose shares would be sold only to farmers, who could not buy more than ten shares each. The SCEC was closely aligned with the SGGA and with the Liberal Party of Saskatchewan.
170:(CPR) and the grain companies were still failing to conform to the act. Almost half the crop was lost due to spoilage due to lack of space in the elevators and lack of railway cars. In November 1901 two farmers in the major grain shipping center of
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The SCEC's relationship with the
Liberals drew criticism from those who felt that a cooperative should be politically neutral, particularly from those who did not support the Liberals. In 1921 a left-wing splinter group left the SGGA to form the
303:. The SCEC raised difficulties about letting the pool use its elevators, and the pool made other arrangements. A special meeting of SCEC members in April 1926 voted to sell to the pool, which took over all the SCEC facilities.
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arranged for a Royal
Commission on Elevators in 1910, which recommended a system where the elevators would be cooperatively owned by the farmers rather than by the government. In 1911 legislation was passed by which the
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the
English buyers for delivery at far higher prices. The leaders of the SGGA were opposed to Partridge's plan to establish a farmer-owned company, but he ignored their objections. The organization meeting for the
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Dominion of Canada. Saskatchewan premier
146:, a cooperative marketing organization, to become established in 1924. In 1926 the SGGA merged with the more radical Farmers' Union of Canada, which had earlier split from the SGGA, to create the
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Partridge campaigned for the
Canadian Wheat Board, dissolved in 1920, to be reestablished. He did not succeed, but his campaign led to the creation in 1926 of the Saskatchewan section of the
315:. The United Farmers of Canada was created by a merger of the more radical Farmers' Union of Canada with the Saskatchewan Grain Growers Association. The first leader of the UFC was
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in the prairie provinces of Canada. There was a bumper crop that year, and farmers found they could not get their produce to market because the
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contracts covering more than half the acreage in the province. The pool incorporated as the
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