DCHP-3

Wheat Board

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a government body having the function of regulating the buying and selling of wheat.

Quotations

1923
It is commonly reported that the farmers of the three prairie Provinces intend to nationalize the disposition of grain by the establishment of a Compulsory Wheat Board.
1953
. . . we got it from the Wheat Board and the private grain trade.
1963
Equally significant was the creation of the Canadian Wheat Board, also in 1935, with the statutory task of disposing the annual wheat crop.