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The guide was tightly controlled by the parent company and the associations of grain growers, who ensured that it was independent of political parties. The guide covered topics of interest to western Canada prairie farmers including politics, cooperative associations, animal husbandry and new
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from its first year, which discussed suffrage, equal rights, dower law and homesteading. The woman's page later included a readers' forum, advice on managing a household, and opinions on marriage, motherhood, women's work and finances. Separately the paper covered activities in the women's
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Partridge thought the guide should be a militant paper, but did not have support for this view from the co-founders. He resigned after the first issue. Roderick McKenzie was editor until 1911. In 1909 the guide was made a weekly, and
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departments of the Grain Growers' Associations. Later the guide started to publish a "household number" that was mainly devoted to domestic topics, but the parent newspaper continued to publish its woman's page.
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felt that the press had given unfair treatment of the struggle in 1906–07 to get the Grain Growers' Grain Company (GGGC) off the ground, and helped organize a farmers' publication. The first issue of
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who believed that women had accepted responsibility for caring for the home and children, but that they should be educated, have property rights and have a voice in political debates.
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agricultural techniques. The paper became an essential source of information about the outside world to prairie farmers. Readers were encouraged to give their views, and the
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The founders and editors were in favour of women's suffrage, but accepted the traditional view of separate men's and women's spheres of activity. The guide included a
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page became an important part of the paper. The guide advocated reform of rural education and supported the temperance movement, the cooperative movement and the
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from volume 21, number 7 (2 April 1928) to volume 29, number 5 (May 1936). In 1936 the paper was merged with
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was appointed associate editor. Chipman edited the guide from 1911 until 1928, and its successor
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The women's page editors from 1908 to 1928 were Isobel Graham, Mary Ford,
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of Manitoba attended the January 1909 convention where the
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Beyond Bylines: Media Workers and Women's Rights in Canada
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That Man Partridge: E.A. Partidge, His Thoughts and Times
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merged with the Canadian Society of Equity to form the
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appeared in June 1908, as the official organ of the
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Index

Grain Growers' Guide

Grain Growers' Grain Company
United Grain Growers
ISSN
0383-7157
Grain Growers' Grain Company
Edward Alexander Partridge
Manitoba Grain Growers' Association

George Fisher Chipman
George Fisher Chipman
Thomas Crerar
Alberta Farmers' Association
United Farmers of Alberta
Saskatchewan Grain Growers' Association
Alberta Farmers' Co-operative Elevator Company
United Grain Growers
Social Gospel
Progressive Party
woman's page
Francis Marion Beynon
Ella Cora Hind
Nellie McClung
Irene Parlby
social feminists
Dale-Burnett 2006


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