Sask flour mill

[newguy]

Looking through the local history book seen that our town had a flour mill built in 1921. It shut down in 1944. Then looked up history of the CWB. Seems in 1943 membership to the CWB was made compulsary.Due to the war mesures act. Wonder how many prairie flour plant also shut down in 1944.

[Choice2U]

Likely quite a few were shut down once the monopoly was imposed. According to this website, there were 55 flour and grist mills in Sask in 1935.

http://www.gov.sk.ca/Default.aspx?DN=5e78fa0e-4a3f-41f6-b93e-e01d7b5f607f

[parsley]

After wining and dining MP's, Ontario's transportation brainwave suddenly appeared,"Let there be light", whispered an Ontario caucus, and a all of a sudden a Crow appeared. And with a raspy, "Caw, caw, caw," instead of making flour in the West, grain suddenly moved East cheaply on tax dollars.

Ah, yes.

Wonderful politics for PQ and Ont. Jobs. Industry.

And Tommy Stupid in Saskatchewan preached at every picnic, claiming losing the flour industry to the East was good for the West; claiming farmers would make more money shipping raw product East instead of making flour down the road.

Ah, yes, those were the days we were young and stupid.

LETS RECALL THE BLOODY LESSON, STUPID. Pars

[hobbyfrmr]

Waaay back in the corner of my mind, I recall my Dad saying there was a flour mill at Tallman. This was a spot between Blaine Lake and Krydor, Sask. Ultimately it became an elevaor, then a siding then nothing but a memory. I am too young to claim this to be a fact, maybe someone on AV can confirm.