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- 1907-1961, predominant 1936-1944 (Creation)
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25 cm of textual records. -- 9 photographs
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Biographical history
Alfred Rawlins, 1883-1965, was born near Salisbury, England. He emigrated to the USA in 1903, and worked on ranches in Michigan and Nebraska before moving to Alberta in 1906. He farmed for one year near Taber, then homesteaded at Turin in 1908. He was a founding member of the Alberta Farmers' Cooperative Elevator Company in 1913. The company amalgamated with the Grain Growers' Grain Company in 1917 to become the United Grain Growers. He actively promoted improvement of Canada's grain marketing system, and in 1937 presented a brief to the Turgeon Royal Commission on Grain. He was secretary of the Bow River Drought Area and Retlaw Agricultural Improvement Association. He sold the farm in 1945 and retired to White Rock, British Columbia.
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Gift of Mrs. Alfred Rawlins., 1965.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
The fonds consists of Rawlins' correspondence, articles, speeches, radio broadcasts, letters to the editor, etc., pertaining to grain marketing, droughts, irrigation, farmers' organizations, education and social credit; submissions to the Turgeon Royal Commission; and newspaper clippings. Includes minutes and correspondence of the Bow River Drought Area and Retlaw Agricultural Improvement Association (1937-1938).
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No restrictions on access.
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The material is in English.
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Title based on contents of records.
Note
NA-2005 consists of copy negatives of PA-1129.
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- Retlaw Agricultural Improvement Association (Subject)
- Alberta Farmers' Union (Subject)
- Alberta Wheat Pool (Subject)
- Brockington, Leonard W. (Subject)
- Brunsden, E.W. (Subject)
- Canadian Wheat Board (Subject)
- Canadian Wheat Pool (Subject)
- Gardiner, James Garfield "Jimmy" (Subject)
- Hansell, Ernest George (Subject)
- Longman, Oliver Stanley (Subject)
- McFarland, John I. (Subject)
- National Farm Radio Forum (Subject)
- Nesbitt, Leonard D. (Subject)
- Nichols, Herbert Edward (Subject)
- Palmer, Asael Exile (Subject)
- Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration (PFRA) (Subject)
- Rhodes, J.H. (Subject)
- Searle Grain Company (Subject)
- Strange, H.G.L. (Subject)
- Taber Constituency Independent Association (Subject)
- Thorvaldson, G.S. (Subject)