Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 November 2014
1 For a comprehensive review of governmental intervention in the marketing of Canadian wheat crops from June, 1917, to February, 1939, see the article contributed by Dr.Grindley, T. W. to Canada Year Book, 1939, pp. 569–80.Google Scholar
2 Statutes of Canada, 25-26 Geo. V, c. 53. This Act is administered by the Minister of Trade and Commerce.
3 Statutes of Canada, 3 Geo. VI, c. 39.
4 The Hon. J. G. Gardiner, Minister of Agriculture, speaking at Wilkie, Saskatchewan, March 20, is reported to have given a “definite promise of amending legislation to provide for a 10 or 12 cent interim payment on the current year's wheat crop … if the King administration was returned to power.” See Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, March 21, 1940.
5 Statutes of Canada, 3 Geo. VI, c. 34.
6 Manitoba Pool Elevators have not operated a pool although some Manitoba farmers have pooled wheat through the Saskatchewan Pool organization.
7 On April 1, 1940, Grain Sales Agency announced an interim payment of fourteen cents a bushel to growers on all deliveries under the Act, bringing total payments up to the Wheat Board price.
8 Statutes of Canada, 3 Geo. VI, c. 28.
9 Statutes of Canada, 3 Geo. VI, c. 31. This Act is administered by the Minister of Trade and Commerce.
10 Statutes of Canada, 3 Geo. VI, c. 36. This Act is administered by the Minister of Trade and Commerce.
11 Statutes of Canada, 3 Geo. VI, c. 50.
12 See Regulations under the Prairie Farm Assistance Act, 1939 (Ottawa, Department of Agriculture, Jan. 18, 1940, mimeo.).Google Scholar
13 See report in Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, February 21, 1940. For a discussion of the difficulties involved in any system of crop insurance based on the individual farm, see Britnell, G. E., The Wheat Economy (Toronto, 1939), pp. 236–8.Google Scholar
14 See report in Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, March 7, 1940.