ARCHIVED - Field of stooked wheat beside six grain elevators, Champion, Alberta, ca. 1930 - The Canadian West - Exhibitions

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Field of stooked wheat beside six grain elevators, Champion, Alberta

Ref. No.: PA-173082
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Field of stooked wheat beside six grain elevators, Champion, Alberta

ca. 1930

One of the earliest successes of the experimental farms was the development of Marquis wheat, a high-standard spring-sown wheat. By 1920, it accounted for 90 percent of all wheat grown in western Canada and helped establish the Prairies as a breadbasket of the world.

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