| | LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Fonds | | No.: | PR1123 | | TITLE: | United Grain Growers Limited fonds | | CREATOR: | United Grain Growers Limited | | DATE RANGE: | 1944-1965 | | EXTENT: | 0.33 m of textual records. – 75 photographs | | ADMINISTRATIVE | | HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | The precursor to United Grain Growers Limited, called the Grain Growers’ Grain Company Limited, was formed in 1906 by a group of farmers in the Sintaluta, Saskatchewan area, led by E.A. Partridge. The co-operative company was the first grain marketing co-operative to be owned and operated by farmers, and members could own no more than four shares each, and have not more than one vote per farmer. The company began leasing government owned grain elevators and then began purchasing or building its own elevators. The Alberta Farmers’ Co-operative Elevator Company Limited was incorporated in 1913 and began building and acquiring grain elevators in Alberta. With the rapid expansion of the Grain Growers’ Grain Company and the Alberta Farmers’ Co-operative Elevator Company, and the possibility of overlapping becoming a concern to shareholders, it was decided to amalgamate the two companies under the name United Grain Growers Limited. As the company grew, many departments were created to deal with the farmers’ needs, such as the Farm Supplies department which organized co-operative handling of farm supplies and bought bulk commodities for farmers’ use, the Traffic department which was established to look after farmers’ claims for leaking railroad cars, but was expanded to control the movement of grain and merchandise over the Company’s system, the Inspection department, which was established to check the government grading of the Company’s grain, and the Field Service department which was established as the Organization department to create and manage the various locals, and became the public relations arm of the company. | | CUSTODIAL HISTORY: | Mrs. Lulu Gertrude Allen deposited accession PR1975.0188 in the Provincial Archives of Alberta in 1975. Mrs. Allen’s husband, Hugh Allen, was a director of the United Grain Growers from 1946-1964. Mr. Alvin Steinwandt deposited accession PR1970.0084 in the Royal Alberta Museum in 1970 and the records were subsequently transferred to the Provincial Archives of Alberta. Mr. Steinwandt’s relationship with the United Grain Growers Limited is unknown. Greg Panas deposited accession PR2013.0136 in 2013. The photographs in that accession were taken by his father, Michael Panas, when he worked for the United Grain Growers Ltd. Construction Department. | | SCOPE AND CONTENT: | Fonds consists of business records of the United Grain Growers, specifically relating to the activities of Hugh Allen, a director of United Grain Growers, and to the activities of A.J. Fender who was an agent of the United Grain Growers in Camrose, Alberta and includes annual reports, notices, correspondence, radio broadcast transcripts, speeches, telegrams, memorandum, bills of lading, inventories, issues of The UFA, an Edmonton telephone directory, agricultural information bulletins, notices, copies of proceedings of the Alberta Legislative Assembly, photographs depicting an oyster shell deposit and oyster grit manufacturing buildings on the Belly River, near Glenwood, Alberta, and a grain field. Fonds also contains records pertaining to the Pinto Creek Coal Mines in Wembley, Alberta and minutes from a Canadian Trade Committee Meeting held in London in 1950. Accession PR2013.0136 consists of photographs depicting grain elevator construction sites in Fort Macleod and Wayne, Alberta. | | RELATED RECORDS: | Other records deposited by Lulu Gertrude Allen can be found in PR1096 Hugh Allen fonds, PR1109 Lower Beaver Lodge Mutual Telephone Company, PR1110 Lower Beaver School District No. 2812, and PR0971 Alberta Livestock Co-operative fonds.
Other records pertaining to the United Grain Growers Limited can be found in accession PR1974.0001, item 156. | | GENERAL NOTE: | This fonds was deposited at the same time and in the same accession as records belonging to the following fonds: Hugh Allen fonds, PR1109 Lower Beaver Lodge Mutual Telephone Company, PR1110 Lower Beaver School District No. 2812, and PR0971 Alberta Livestock Co-operative fonds.
Included in accession PR1970.0084 are records belonging to the PR1219 Alberta Teachers’ Association fonds.
Information for the administrative history was taken from Across Fifty Years, published by the United Grain Growers Limited (available in accession PR1975.0188, item 85). | | RELATED ITEMS: | A4254 (Stooked Wheat Crop)
A4255 (Belly River, Near Glenwood, Alberta)
A4256 (Belly River, Near Glenwood, Alberta)
A4832 (United Grain Growers Executive)
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