Alberta Wheat Pool

The Alberta Wheat Pool was the first of Canada's wheat farmer co-operatives in 1923.

Famous quotes containing the words wheat and/or pool:

    “[Panurge] spent everything in a thousand little banquets and joyous feasts open to all comers, particularly jolly companions, young lasses, and delightful wenches, and in clearing his lands, burning the big logs to sell the ashes, taking money in advance, buying dear, selling cheap, and eating his wheat in the blade.”
    —François Rabelais (1494–1553)

    “A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.”
    —Joan Didion (b. 1934)