Grain
The Entrepreneurs
- Publisher
- J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1996
- Category
- General
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780920486542
- Publish Date
- Jan 1996
- List Price
- $22.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780920486566
- Publish Date
- Jan 1996
- List Price
- $22.95
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Description
This authoratative history of the enterprising and innovative men who built the private grain trade opens in the newly incorporated City of Winnipeg. It discusses the early bartering of wheat for merchandise and the first shipments to the east; the multi-company mergers that began in the 1920s and 1930s when the rise of the wheat pools presented a serious challenge to established companies; and it continues with accounts of the dominant families in the trade today.
About the author
Charles W. Anderson was born at Morris, Manitoba in 1931 and graduated in Agriculture from the University of Manitoba in 1955. Before entering the Winnipeg Grain trade in 1972, he was a grain farmer at Morris and, for several years, reeve of the Morris municipality. He has served on various committees of the Canada Grain Council and the Winnipeg Commodity Exchange.