Red Fife Feeds Canada From 1860 To 1900
By the 1860s Red Fife was distributed and growing across Canada, adapting to a broad diversity of growing conditions. Renowned as a fine milling and baking wheat it set Canadian wheat standards for over forty years (1860–1900). Agriculture Canada and provincial agriculture research stations would import varieties from all over the world and try them in the Canadian growing conditions. There is no native variety of wheat in Canada.
Marquis wheat was developed from crossing Red Fife with Hard Red Calcutta. A history of Marquis and Red Fife has been posted on the Agriculture Canada website.
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