The fonds consists of returned cheques, payroll records, bills of lading, and the envelope used in 1949 to transfer the records to UFA Central Co-op.
Administrative History
The Beaverlodge U.F.A. Co-op began operations in Beaverlodge (or Beaver Lodge), Alberta in 1948. It sold building supplies to its members. Mr. Helgie Holmberg was its first manager.
The file consists of minutes of the Board of Directors meetings held in connection with the 14th Annual Meeting (including resolutions passed); address by the Rt. Hon. James G. Gardner, Minister of Agriculture; press summary of address of Prof. John Kenneth Galbraith, verbatim report of his additional remarks, and report of question-and-answer session; Discussion of price support resolution / by E.C. Hope, Economist for the Canadian Federation of Agriculture
The fonds consists of minutes of the annual meeting (1938, 1950), minutes of the Directors' meeting (1950), resolutions considered and passed by the Western Agricultural Conference (1950), and addresses to the annual meeting by the Rt. Hon. James G. Gardner and Prof. John Kenneth Galbraith (1950).
Administrative History
In 1935 representatives of the provincial farmers' organizations of the four western provinces met as the Western Agricultural Conference. They agreed that because the Canadian Council of Agriculture had become inactive, there was a need for a new national farmers' organization. The Canadian Chamber of Agriculture was organized in Toronto later that year. Like its predecessor, it was a federation of provincial farm organizations and producers' groups, formed largely for the purpose of advocacy. The Western Agricultural Conference and the Eastern Agricultural Conference (established in 1939) continued to meet annually as divisions of the Chamber to deal with regional concerns. Around 1940 the Chamber changed its name to Canadian Federation of Agriculture. In the 2010s it continued to be the major agricultural advocacy organization of Canada.
File consists of an envelope addressed to Helgie Holmberg of Beaverlodge.
Names
Beaverlodge U.F.A. Co-op
Holmberg, Helgie
Places
Beaverlodge
Date
1949
Notes
Handwritten annotations on the envelope read " Beaverlodge Building / Holmberg Records," indicating this envelope contained the records of Helgie Holmberg in his role with the Beaverlodge UFA Co-op.
The file consists of resolutions for consideration and resolutions passed at the Western Agricultural Conference, 1950; and minutes of the 14th annual meeting of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture, 1950. Includes resolutions passed at the annual meeting.
The fonds consists of the Society's newsletter for 1944 and 1947-1951.
Administrative History
In March 1944 a group of five UFA Co-op employees began publishing a monthly staff newsletter, provisionally titled You Name It?? By 1946 the newsletter was titled UFA Sco-ops, and it was the official organ of the U.F.A. Staff Co-op Society. Doug Thornton of the Educational Department of UFA Co-op served as its editor during most of its history. The Society organized social and recreational activities and produced the newsletter. In 1949 the Society's name was changed to U.F.A. Co-op Staff Society and the newsletter's title was changed to Sco-ops. In 1951 the Society disbanded and the newsletter ceased publication. A later staff social and recreational association known as ECHO (Employees of the Co-op Head Office) existed from the 1970s onward.
Custodial History
The newsletters had been collected by Doug Thornton.