APPENDIX 



FIRST OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, COMMITTEES, ETC., OF THE FARMERS' 

 MOVEMENT IN WESTERN CANADA, ETC. 



1. Territorial (Saskatchewan) Grain Growers' Association 190& 



President, W. R. Motherwell (Abernethy) ; Secretary, 

 John Millar (Indian Head). Among those who acted on 

 the first Board of Directors were: Messrs. Walter Go van 

 and M. M. Warden (Indian Head) ; John Gillespie, 

 Elmer Shaw and Peter Dayman (Abernethy) ; Matthew 

 Snow (Wolseley). 



2. Virden (Manitoba) Grain Growers' Association 1903. 



President, J. W. Scallion; Vice-President, George Care- 

 foot; Secretary-Treasurer, H. W. Dayton; Directors: 

 J. A. Blakeman, Isaac Bennett, Peter McDonald and 



C. E. Ivens. 



3. Manitoba Grain Growers' Association 1903. 



President, J. W. Scallion (Virden) ; Vice-President, E. C. 

 Henders (Culross) ; Secretary-Treasurer, E. McKenzie 

 (Brandon); Directors: Donald McEwan, Brandon; 

 William Eyan (Boissevain), W. A. Eobinson (Elva), 



D. W. McCuaig (Portage la Prairie), John Wilson 

 (Lenore), and H. A. Fraser, Hamiota. 



4. Committee to Investigate Possibilities of Farmers Trading 



in Grain 1905. 



The first step towards co-operative trading in grain by 

 the farmers of Western Canada was a scheme, fathered 

 by E. A. Partridge, of Sintaluta, Sask., the first official 

 action being taken by the Manitoba Grain Growers' 

 Association at their annual convention in 1905, when the 

 following committee was ordered to investigate and 

 report : 



Chairman, E. A. Partridge (Sintaluta, Sask.) ; J. A. 

 Taylor (Cartwright, Man.); A. S. Barton (Boissevain, 

 Man.). 



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