DAWE: Centennial of Alberta Wheat Pool - Red Deer Advocate

This year marks the centennial of one of the most remarkable stories in Alberta’s economic history. That was the adoption in 1923 of mass cooperative marketing of grain as a solution to the major economic problems faced by Alberta’s grain producers. Since agriculture was the backbone of the Central Alberta economy, the development had a huge impact.

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