This file consists of a promotional notepad produced by Alberta Livestock Co-Operative.
Creator
Milt Ward
Names
Alberta Livestock Co-operative
Ward, Milt
Accession Number
UF 2003.0081.68
Can I use it?
Images are provided for research and reference use only. Written permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these images must be obtained from United Farmers' Historical Society.
This file contains two documents: Overall Water Authority, A Study as Prepared by Mr. Carl Anderson and Mr. R. Dahl acting as an Alberta Federation of Agriculture Committee (1956); Statement in Support of the Proposal of "A Great Plain Water Authority" by Jack Sutherland for the Officers and Delegates who attended the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Alberta Federation of Agriculture (1958).
This file contains the New Program and Handbook (1954) and; Policy Handbook (1966).
Creator
Milt Ward
Publisher
Edmonton : Co-op Press
Names
Farmers' Union of Alberta
Ward, Milt
Accession Number
UF 2003.0081.90
UF 2003.0081.111
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Images are provided for research and reference use only. Written permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these images must be obtained from United Farmers' Historical Society.
This file consists of two copies of the Alberta Wheat Pool newsletter The Budget (1933; 1961) and a copy of Alberta Wheat Pool's Silver Anniversary (1948).
This file contains: the text of a speech by Sr. M. Thomas More to the FUA convention advocating unity among farm organizations (1969); The Farm Movement in Alberta, a history of the farm movement in Alberta by Norman Priestley, printed by the Alberta Federation of Agriculture (1949); For This We Stand, a Farmers Union Policy Leaflet (No. 11); Alberta Co-operative Leaders produced by the Alberta Livestock Co-operative containing articles by leaders in the co-operative movement advocating the purchase of Victory Bonds (ca. 1945).
The fonds consists of photographs, correspondence, and other records documenting Milton Ward's involvement in the co-operative sector.
Custodial History
Milton Henry "Milt" Ward, 1890-1994, was born in Nogies Creek, Ontario. In 1905 he migrated with his family to Arrowwood, a community east of High River, Alberta. He assisted his father, and established his own homestead in the district at an early age. He also worked as a ranch hand and blacksmith. He became a manager in the Crowsnest Pass coal mining industry during the First World War, but returned to farming and ranching in the Arrowwood district. He served on the council of the Municipal District of Marquis from 1916 to 1941. He was an active member of the United Farmers of Alberta, serving as a director from 1932 to 1969, a delegate to the Alberta Wheat Pool, and a director of the Arrowwood Co-operative Association. In 1977 he was inducted into the Alberta Agriculture Hall of Fame. He was married twice, to Lena Steiner, ?-1923, and to Myrtle Foreman, 1903-1995. He had six children: Ruby Della (Fletcher), Audrey Helen (Neubauer), Shirley Margaret (Hood), Jack Foreman, George Alan, and Beverly Joan (Weeks).
The fonds includes minute books of Kerndale U.F.A. Local No. 775, 1918-1941, including financial and membership records. Includes a transcription of the 1918-1927 minute book produced in 2003. Includes the By-laws of the North Peace Purchasing Committee (ca. 1935).
Administrative History
The Kerndale U.F.A. Local No. 775, located in the district of Kerndale near the village of Berwyn in the Peace River region of Alberta, was founded in 1918. It became inactive in 1941.
Custodial History
The fonds had been in the possession of Jim and Eileen Allan.
This file consists of: Look! Read! Learn! Report to its Members on Wheat Policy, published by Inter-Provincial Farmers' Union Council [ca. 1945]; The Case Against the Speculative Marketing of Grain by Leonard D. Nesbitt, published by the Alberta Wheat Pool (1952); Canadian Farm Problems: What Should We Do About It?, published by the Canadian Association for Adult Education, (March 1941); Submission by the National Farmers Union to the Government of Canada, (March 1965); Agricultural Problems and Price-Support Programs, a speech by W.I. Myers delivered at the 46th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Animal Production and an attached covering letter from an executive of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, (1954); Review of Economic Conditions and the Farmers' Position, a paper by Dr. E.C. Hope delivered to the Canadian Federation of Agriculture, (1951); A Short History of the Hudson Bay Route, the Seaport of Churchill and the Hudson Bay Route Association, authorized by The Hudson Bay Route Association, (1966); and, The Railway and Grain: Moving Grain, A series of articles dealing with the Grain Transportation System in Canada, reprinted from CP Rail News, (1975) and an attached covering letter from Karl __.
Creator
MIlt Ward
Names
Ward, Milt
Inter-Provincial Farmers' Union
Alberta Wheat Pool
National Farmers Union
Canadian Association for Adult Education
Canadian Federation of Agriculture
Hudson Bay Route Association
Canadian Pacific Railway
Accession Number
UF 2003.0081.69
UF 2003.0081.71
UF 2003.0081.91
UF 2003.0081.95
UF 2003.0081.103
UF 2003.0081.105
UF 2003.0081.115
UF 2003.0081.144
Can I use it?
Images are provided for research and reference use only. Written permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these images must be obtained from United Farmers' Historical Society.
This file consists of newspaper obituaries of: Winnifred Ross; E.J. "Ted" Garland and; Jack Sutherland; a newsclipping on Roy C. Marler and; The Social Philosophy of Henry Wise Wood The Canadian Agrarian Leader by W.L. Morton of the University of Manitoba.
Creator
Milt Ward
Names
Ward, Milt
Ross, Winifred
Garland, Edward Joseph
Sutherland, Jack
Wood, Henry Wise
Marler, Roy
Accession Number
UF 2003.0081.76
UF 2003.0081.86
UF 2003.0081.96
UF 2003.0081.121
Can I use it?
Images are provided for research and reference use only. Written permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these images must be obtained from United Farmers' Historical Society.
This file contains: When Computer Really Grow Up!; a page from a book containing quotes from Goethe, Mark Twain and Wordsworth; a page from a book containing notes on Oneota; an invitation to a banquet at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture (1968); Western People, the magazine insert for the Western Producer (November 1988) including an article on the 1918 influenza epidemic in Milo; Our Purpose and Our Pledge, a reprint of an editorial from the New York Times (January 1941); Unemployment Insurance for Farm Workers (Statement forwarded by Alberta Federation of Agriculture) (1958).
Creator
MIlt Ward
Names
Ward, Milt
Alberta Federation of Agriculture
Canadian Federation of Agriculture
Places
Milo
Accession Number
UF 2003.0081.137
UF 2003.0081.139
UF 2003.0081.143
UF 2003.0081.145
UF 2003.0081.191
Date
1941-1988
Notes
When Computers Really Grow Up! was originally assigned accession no. UF 2003.0081.120 by Gord Tolton. July 2010 the number was changed to UF 2003.0081.191 to avoid confusion with the photograph UF 2003.0081.12.
This file contains photographs of: Milton Ward; Robert Gardiner, the UFA annual meeting in 1954; meetings of the UFA board of directors 1934, [ca. 1962[, [ca. 1967]; a meeting of the Farmers Union of Alberta; an unknown convention at the provincial legislature of Alberta; and an unknown youth convention.