It was a massive shift in Canadian agriculture. One hundred years ago this month, a giant emerged on the prairies.
On Aug. 2, 1926, the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool officially bought out the Saskatchewan Co-operative Elevator Company. The historic takeover cost $15 million dollars.
It gave the young, farmer-owned co-operative complete control over a massive network of local grain elevators.
This single transaction created the largest grain-handling system in the world at the time. For the next eighty years, those iconic wooden elevators shaped the horizon of almost every single prairie town.
The expansion gave local farmers unprecedented leverage over the sale and shipping of their own crops.
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100 Years of Saskatchewan History
This article is part of a series that celebrates both the history of Saskatchewan and the 100th anniversary of one of Saskatchewan's most storied radio stations. For more key moments from the last 100 years, visit the CKRM timeline.
