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United Farmers

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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one of several political groups growing out of farmers' organizations at the provincial level.

See: U.F.A.,U.F.O.

Quotations

1918

[In] January 14th, 1909 . . . amalgamation took place at Edmonton under the name, "United Farmers of Alberta."

1918

[The] United Farmers of Ontario [were formed in] 1914.

1958

Both the Wheat Pool idea and the United Farmers of Alberta movement gathered momentum in the years after the war.

1959

That summer [1931] . . . The United Farmers of Canada (Saskatchewan Section) approved a series of resolutions favouring "social ownership and co-operative production" and agreed that direct political action was necessary to achieve their aims.

1966

The victory of the United Farmers in the 1919 election changed the picture.