New Breaking : An Outline of Co-operation Among the Farmers of Western Canada

Hardcover, 215 pages, 5.5x8.5 in - 14x21 cm, B&W photographs.

Lacks as issued dust jacket. Covers sunned at edges and stained, with top and bottom edges rubbed through to boards in places. Corners bumped and rubbed. 2 cm (0.75 in) tear to front cover cloth at bottom. Spine spotted and quite sunned, rubbed through at head and heel. Fore edge soiled, top edge foxed. Endpapers lightly soiled. Front endpapers stamped by previous owner, front pastedown school stamped, front free endpaper marked in ink. Title page and p.14 stamped by previous owner, many pages lightly soiled or creased (pp.43-44 heavily creased). Gutter starting to crack in several places.

In this volume, Hugh Boyd outlines co-operative grain marketing experiments in Canada in the early 1900s. From the North-West Elevator Association’s emergence in 1901 through the Canadian Wheat Pool’s creation in the 1920s to the Grain Inquiry of 1937, Boyd describes key figures, events, and organizations that shaped grain growing and sales on the prairies. He covers relevant legislation and global events, but most strongly emphasizes the fortitude and collaborative spirit of farmers and promoters. Popular in tone and contemporary at the time of its publication, the volume demonstrates the practical difficulties and results of co-operative organizing. Peel(3) 6157.