The volume contains accounts for subscriptions, political expenses, livestock shipping, general shipping, feed, coal, twine, wheat, hay, sundries, formaldehyde, non-members' fees, Community Hall loan, general expenses, interest, dividends received from Central, trust account, capital account, benevolent fund, and banking.
File consists of a chequebook for the Onoway Local No. 131's account at the Onoway Branch of the Canadian Bank of Commerce. The chequebook contains stubs for cheques written and a few blank cheques.
The volume contains the minutes of Onoway U.F.A. Local No. 131 (1924-1942) and the minutes, membership records, and accounts of Onoway F.U.A. Local No. 527 (1949-1950).
The fonds consists of the minute book used by the Onoway U.F.A. Local No. 131 (1924-1942) and Onoway F.U.A. Local No. 527, with membership list (1949-1950); the account book (1919-1935); journal (1926-1936); and cheque book (1933-1934).
Administrative History
Onoway U.F.A. Local No. 131 was organized in the 1910s. By 1919 it was pooling its members' economic resources by shipping livestock and purchasing bulk quantities of feed, coal, and twine. The Local apparently became inactive in 1942. In 1949 some former members organized the Onoway F.U.A. Local No. 527, a Local of the Farmers' Union of Alberta. This organization apparently became inactive in 1950.