79 years ago
Aug. 27, 1923: The first issue of the Progressive, which later became the Western Producer, concentrated on the progress of contract selling to the new Alberta Wheat Pool.
70 years ago
Aug. 31, 1933: Russian children were made to gather any wheat kernels left in wheat fields by the reapers. Government denied there was a food shortage.
60 years ago
Aug. 26, 1943: Canadian troops lost 1,895 men in the Sicilian campaign of the Second World War between July 10 and Aug. 4.
50 years ago
Aug. 27, 1953: Alberta’s wheat production of 146 million bushels was more than the 20-year average by 27 million bu.
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40 years ago
Aug. 29, 1963: Saskatchewan estimated it would reap the largest wheat crop in the province’s history.
30 years ago
Aug. 30, 1973: Naturalist and author Kerry Wood of Red Deer celebrated 50 years of writing for the Producer and other publications. He wore out 19 typewriters in the process.
20 years ago
Sept. 1, 1983: Angela Clarke of Waskatenau, Alta., was the first woman delegate elected to the Alberta Wheat Pool.
10 years ago
Aug. 26, 1993: In the 70th anniversary supplement, a reader recalled her mother exchanging chickens for a subscription to the Western Producer in the 1930s.
