For the next year, this column will mark The Western Producer’s 100th anniversary by taking a deep dive every week into a past issue of the paper. In last week’s column about the Jan. 12, 1961, issue of The Western Producer, I wrote about a war of words between prairie farm groups and the Canadian […] Read more
Stories by Bruce Dyck
Look back at the Jan. 12, 1961 issue
For the next year, this column will mark The Western Producer’s 100th anniversary by taking a deep dive every week into a past issue of the paper. The Jan. 12, 1961, issue was dominated by a war of words between farm groups and the federal government over Canadian Wheat Board regulations that would allow feed […] Read more
Look back at the Jan. 8, 1959, issue
For the next year, this column will mark The Western Producer’s 100th anniversary by taking a deep dive every week into a past issue of the paper. There was a little bit of everything in the Jan. 8, 1959, issue, from freight rates to farm aid and from stormy holidays to sales records. The paper […] Read more
Look back at the Dec. 19, 1957, issue
For the next year, this column will mark The Western Producer’s 100th anniversary by taking a deep dive every week into a past issue of the paper. The Royal Commission on Agriculture and Rural Life in Saskatchewan was the big news in the Dec. 19, 1957, issue. The commission, which had completed its report, held […] Read more
Look back at the Dec. 15, 1955 issue
For the next year, this column will mark The Western Producer’s 100th anniversary by taking a deep dive every week into a past issue of the paper. Regular readers of this column might remember Joe Phelps from last week, when the Saskatchewan Farmers Union president got into a verbal dust-up with one of his retiring […] Read more
Look back at the Dec. 10, 1953 issue
For the next year, this column will mark The Western Producer’s 100th anniversary by taking a deep dive every week into a past issue of the paper. A fight broke out in the Dec. 10, 1953, issue. Actually, the donnybrook took place at the Saskatchewan Farmers Union annual meeting but eventually made its way into […] Read more
Look back at the Nov. 29, 1951, issue
For the next year, this column will mark The Western Producer’s 100th anniversary by taking a deep dive every week into a past issue of the paper. I have been waiting for two things ever since I began making my way through back issues of The Western Producer, and they both happened in the Nov. […] Read more
Look back at the Nov. 24, 1949, issue
For the next year, this column will mark The Western Producer’s 100th anniversary by taking a deep dive every week into a past issue of the paper. The 1940s were almost over, and the Prairies were still grappling with drought. One of the headlines on the front page of the Nov. 24, 1949, issue declared, […] Read more
Look back at the Nov. 13, 1947, issue
For the next year, this column will mark The Western Producer’s 100th anniversary by taking a deep dive every week into a past issue of the paper. This summer we published a story written by freelancer Becky Zimmer about efforts to control leafy spurge in a Saskatchewan pasture using leafy spurge beetles. It’s not the […] Read more
Look back at the Nov. 8, 1945, issue
For the next year, this column will mark The Western Producer’s 100th anniversary by taking a deep dive every week into a past issue of the paper. It might be tempting to think that the terrible drought of the 1930s ended on Dec. 31, 1939, but that was not the case. A story in the […] Read more
