The United Farmers of Alberta (U.F.A.) was founded in 1909 and incorporated by the Province of Alberta in 1918. In 1932 it established a subsidiary, U.F.A. Central Co-operative Association Ltd. (U.F.A. Central Co-op), to provide wholesaling and other services to local and regional farmers' consumer co-ops. In December 1948 U.F.A. changed its name and revised its Bylaws in order to function as a cooperative business, United Farmers of Alberta Co-operative Limited (UFA Co-op). The advocacy and...
The United Farmer magazine succeeded The U.F.A. Co-operator in May 1967, continuing its serial numbering. The United Farmer was published by the Information Services Division of the United Farmers of Alberta, and edited by Alice Switzer. It carried stories about U.F.A. Co-op news, employees and agents of the U.F.A. Co-operative Limited, farming practices and a regular feature titled “Albertan of the Month”. The United Farmer won awards in the Company or Institutional Publication category...
The United Farmers of Alberta (U.F.A.) was formed in 1909 from the amalgamation of the Canadian Society of Equity and the Alberta Farmers Association. It was incorporated by an act of the Province of Alberta in 1918. It was a self-help and advocacy organization which encouraged economic power for farmers through the development of co-operatives. It also functioned as a political party from 1919 to 1939, and was the governing party in Alberta from 1921 to 1935. Its presidents were James Bower...
The U.F.A., a newspaper, was the official organ of the United Farmers of Alberta and several agricultural marketing co-ops. It began publishing in 1922 and was retitled The United Farmer in 1934. It ceased publication in 1936. It was published on a semi-monthly frequency, with occasional extra issues when the Alberta Legislature was in session or during other newsworthy occasions. In 1932 it became a monthly. It was published by a committee of the United Farmers of Alberta until 1928, when a...
Includes articles by James P. Watson, William Irvine, E.H. Strickland, Leona R. Barritt, and editorial by W. Norman Smith. Includes news from Alberta Wheat Pool.
The U.F.A. Co-operative Limited began publication of a monthly periodical, The U.F.A. Co-operator, in June of 1963. Stories were written by the Information Service Department and issues were published by the Printing Department. This publication was distributed to directors, delegates, staff members, petroleum agents, and board members of affiliated co-operative associations. The U.F.A. Co-operator contained stories on people involved in the co-operative, U.F.A. Co-op news, and articles on the...
The United Farmers of Alberta (U.F.A.) amended its constitution in 1913 to admit women as members. In 1914 its Women's Section was formed. In 1916 the women members formed a separate organization governed by the U.F.A constitution, the United Farm Women of Alberta (U.F.W.A.). Beginning in 1917 the U.F.W.A. was required to be represented on the U.F.A. Executive and Board of Directors. Irene Parlby was the first president of the U.F.W.A. The United Farm Women of Alberta Alumnae Association was a...
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Includes articles by Robert Ingram, Walter J. Millard and George H. Hallett Jr., I.V. Macklin, N.A. Larsen, Harald S. Patton, and editorial by W. Norman Smith. Features news from Alberta Wheat Pool, Alberta Livestock Pool, and Alberta Dairy Pool.
Includes articles by H.G. Young, Geo. H. Ross, Alfred Speakman, E.J. Garland, J.P. Warbasse, H. Zella Spencer, Mrs. A.H. Warr, F.T. Cook, Caroline Green, and editorial by W. Norman Smith. Features news from Alberta Wheart Pool, Alberta Livestock Pool, and Alberta Dairy Pool.
File consists of a bound volume of minutes from the executive meetings, board meetings and conventions of the United Farm Women of Alberta from 1934 to 1937.
Topics: Women, Minutes and proceedings, Congresses and conventions
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Features news stories about the reeelection of the U.F.A. government. Features articles by H.W. Wood, William Halsall, John A. Lund, Lucille MacRae, T. Swindlehurst, and editorial by W. Norman Smith. Includes articles about election of Donald M.Kennedy, Killam Co-operative Association, Alberta Wheat Pool, Alberta Livestock Pool, Alberta Co-operative League.
Includes articles by Arthur J. Cantin, R.G. Reid, Norman F. Priestley, Mrs. F.E. Wyman, F. McDonald, and editorial by W. Norman Smith. Features reports on debates in the Alberta Legislature and news from Alberta Wheat Pool and Alberta Livestock Pool.
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The Junior Branch of the United Farmers of Alberta, also known as the Junior U.F.A., was formed in 1919 at the initiative of the United Farm Women of Alberta. It was an organization of young men and women from farm families in their teens and early twenties. It operated in accordance with a constitution similar to that of the U.F.A. It was involved in training its members in agricultural and household skills, and in leadership skills such as public speaking. In 1949, upon the formation of the...
Official reports and minutes of the annual conventions. Bound volume containing reports for the years 1915-1917.
Topics: Congresses and conventions, Annual reports, Minutes and proceedings, Yearbooks
Bound volume of the official minutes of the thirty-first, thirty-second, thirty-third, and thirty-fourth annual conventions of the United Farmers of Alberta, with the President's Address, the UFWA President's Address, Report of the Board of Directors and committees, and Junior U.F.A. President's Report for each year appended before the minutes of the year in which it was given. In 1942 reports inclued the Junior U.F.A. Vice-president's address, rather than the president's.
Topics: Congresses and conventions, Minutes and proceedings, Reports, Speeches, addresses, etc.
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Includes articles by Norman F. Priestley, E.J. Garland, Elmer Clay, H. Zella Spencer, and editorial by W. Norman Smith. Features reports of debates in the Alberta Legislature and news from Alberta Wheat Pool.
Includes articles by N.V. Fearnehough, Leona R. Barritt, Arthur E. Darby, H. Zella Spencer, and editorial by W. Norman Smith. Features articles about Morrin U.F.A. Local and Wetaskiwin U.F.A. Co-operative Association. Features news from Alberta Wheat Pool, Alberta Livestock Pool, and Alberta Dairy Pool.
Includes articles by H.E. Spencer, Helen E. Gault, Leona R. Barritt, H. Zella Spencer, Jessie Montgomery, C.R. Fay, J. Russell Love, Southern Alberta Dairy Pool, n article announcing the upcoming mailing of the U.F.W.A. Cook Book, and editorial and article by W. Norman Smith. Includes news from Alberta Wheat Pool and Alberta Dairy Pool.
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Includes articles by Henry Wise Wood, G.G. Coote, John Mackenzie, John A. Lund, Mrs. M.E. Graham, and editorial by W. Norman Smith. Includes article about suspension of trading license of Alberta Livestock Growers Ltd. Includes articles on chicken raising and taxation of lands adjacent to telophone lines.
"Federal General Election Number". Includes articles by D.F. Kellner, W.T. Lucas, G.G. Coote, Alfred Speakman, Mrs. A.H. Warr, E.J. Garland, William Irvine, H. Zella Spencer, Amelia Turner, and editorial by W. Norman Smith. Features news from Alberta Wheat Pool and Alberta Livestock Pool.
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Includes articles by Henry Wise Wood, William Irvine, Bert Huffman, T. Swindleton, William Carnill, R.D. Purdy, E.J. Garland, and editorial by W. Norman Smith. Features articles about Edgerton Co-operative Association, Alberta Wheat Pool.
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File consists of pages 1, 2, 17, and 18 of an issue of The United Farmer newspaper.
Includes news from Alberta Wheat Pool. Includes editorial and article by W. Norman Smith.
Includes articles by William Irvine, A.B. Claypool, D.O. McHugh, R.O. German, R.A. Van Slyke, and editorial by W. Norman Smith.
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Includes articles by L.H. Jelliff, Irene Parlby, and editorial by W. Norman Smith. Features reports on debates in the Alberta Legislature.
Includes articles by L.H. Jelliff, Harald S. Patton, Norman F. Priestley, V.W. Smith, H. Zella Spencer, Edna M. Hull, and editorial by W. Norman Smith. Features reports on debates in the Alberta Legislature and news from Alberta Wheat Pool, Alberta Livestock Pool, and Alberta Dairy Pool.
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Features articles by H.W. Wood, J.E. Brownlee, Mrs. R. Clarke Fraser, J.B. Kidd, Ernest A. Howes, Roy Clemens, editorial by W. Norman Smith.
File consists of a bound volume of minutes from the executive meetings, board meetings and conventions of the Junior Branch of the United Farmers of Alberta from 1938 to 1949.
Topics: Youth, Minutes and proceedings, Congresses and conventions
"Co-operative marketing number" with special supplement. Includes articles by M.A. McMillan, R.A. Van Slyke, N.S. Smith, A.B. Claypool, John Slattery, W.F. Stevens, R.O. German, R.H. Ennismore, S.S. Sears, Mrs. H.E.G.H. Scholefield, cartoon by W.G. Guthrie, and editorial by W. Norman Smith. Includes articles about Alberta Wheat Pool, Alberta Co-operative Livestock Producers, Alberta Co-operative Poultry Producers, and Alberta Co-operative Dairy Producers.
The file contains two copies. One is a "sample copy". Includes articles by W.S. McCardell and F.J. Rathbone, and editorial by W. Norman Smith. Features news from Alberta Livestock Pool and Alberta Wheat Pool.
Includes article by James P. Watson and editorial by W. Norman Smith.
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