Mac Runciman: A Life in the Grain Trade

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Synopsis
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 1970sófrom 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.
Copyright:
2000

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
272 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780887550744
Related ISBNs:
9780887556661, 9780887553387
Publisher:
University of Manitoba Press
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Copyright Paul D. Earl
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Business and Finance
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Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Introduction by:
Gerald Friesen

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