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Title: Mac Runciman : A Life in the Grain Trade
Description: One of the most turbulent periods in the history of prairie agriculture is chronicled in a new book about the life and times of Alexander “Mac” Runciman, the Saskatchewan farmer who led the United Grain Growers as president from 1961 to 1981. Mac Runciman earned the respect and admiration on both sides of the great agriculture debates of the 1960s and 1970s from individual farmers to Pierre Trudeau, who offered Runciman a cabinet post in 1980 (Mac turned him down). Mac Runciman: A Life in the Grain Trade tells the story of how Runciman rose through the ranks of the UGG to play a central role in the fierce debates over the modernization of grain handling, subsidized freight rates, and the role of The Canadian Wheat Board. Runciman's reminiscences give new insights into the events and personalities of that critical period in Canadian agricultural history, a time in which the rural community began to question highly centralized and regulated marketing and transportation systems. The events and decisions of those years continue to reverberate in today's controversies over grain marketing and grain transportation.
Authors: Paul D. Earl
Resource Type: eBook.
Subjects: Farmers--Saskatchewan--Biography, Grain trade--Prairie Provinces--History--20th century
Categories: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Business, HISTORY / Canada / Post-Confederation (1867-)
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