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. War news dominated the front page of the Nov. 4, 1943, issue, with the exception of a story about a coal strike hitting Canada and the United States, […] Read more
Stories by Bruce Dyck
![One must remember that back [during World War II], The Western Producer might have been the only newspaper read on the farm. There was news on the radio, but if the Producer wasn’t informing isolated rural residents about the latest war developments, there was a good chance they wouldn’t know about them. | Bruce Dyck photo](https://static.producer.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/25161654/11-Oct-26-IMG_0385-660x420.jpg)
Look back at the Oct. 23, 1941 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 can be a surprise for modern readers of The Western Producer to scan issues of the paper from the first half of the 1940s and see all […] Read more
Look back at the Oct. 19, 1939, 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 Oct. 19, 1939, issue is the last of the five papers we will be looking at in this space that were published during the Dirty Thirties. It […] Read more
Look back at the Oct. 14, 1937, 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. In the 1930s, the federal government asked Justice W.F.A. Turgeon to conduct a royal inquiry into the marketing of Canadian grain. The judge released his report in 1938, […] Read more
Look back at the Oct. 3, 1935, 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. Politics was the name of the game in the Oct. 3, 1935 issue, which I suppose was to be expected, considering the country was in the middle of […] Read more
Look back at the Sept. 28, 1933, 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. We’re a third of the way through what is now called the Dirty Thirties, the climatic calamity that devastated prairie agriculture 90 years ago, but there’s little indication […] Read more
Look back at the Sept. 24, 1931 issue
There were no glaring headlines in the Sept. 24, 1931, issue of The Western Producer to indicate that the Prairies were in the grips of the Dirty Thirties and the Great Depression, but the signs were there. There were stories about financial developments, both international and domestic, as well as articles about currency, banks and […] Read more
Look back at the Sept. 12, 1929 issue
I’ve marvelled at how many stories the editors of The Western Producer managed to cram onto their front pages 100 years ago. However, they deviated from that trend in the Sept. 12, 1929, issue when they ran only four stories. It was a big news week in Saskatchewan. One of the front page stories was […] Read more
Look back at Sept. 8, 1927
Continuing with my fascination over the lack of artwork on the front pages of 100-year-old Western Producers, I will note this week that three headshots appeared on the front page of the Sept. 8, 1927, issue. One of them was a curious choice for a western Canadian farm newspaper — Chief Justice Martin of Montreal, […] Read more
Look back at the Aug. 27, 1925, 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. Forgive this old newspaperman’s obsession with the lack of art on the front pages of the early Western Producers — you might be hearing more about it in […] Read more
