The spring of 1948 was beautiful. I was working as a helper in the famous Manitoba Pool Elevator at Starbuck. A friend of mine who was working as a grain buyer in the Ogilvie Elevator asked me if I was interested in becoming a grain buyer. I thought it over for a couple of days and I finally said I would give it a try. He told me that Ogilvie’s in Rosser around Manitoba needed a buyer and that the job was mine if I wanted it.

Thursday, May 13, 1948 was another lovely day. That was the day I came to Rosser to start my career as a grain buyer. There were many times when I thought I was crazy to have taken up grain buying as a full time job but, as I look back over the years, I can’t say that I am sorry. I worked for Ogilvie Flour Mills for 11 years and Manitoba Pool Elevators until the summer of 1969.

As I mentioned earlier the spring of 1948 in Manitoba was a great spring and when I arrived in Rosser most of the seeding had been completed. One of my first experiences as a grain buyer occurred about two hours after I arrived. A farmer came in wanting a load of wheat cleaned. After I had put the grain through the cleaner a couple of times I noticed that after each time through there seemed to be more and more barley in the wheat. After apologizing to the farmer he said it didn’t matter that much as it wasn’t meant for people and he was just going to use the grain to feed his cattle and that all he really wanted was the smaller weed seeds removed. I later checked it out and found some barley stuck in the corner of the bin. When I went home that night I was kind of discouraged and I thought to myself that I would probably stay for only two weeks at the most. As I write this it is 44 years later and I am still in Manitoba particularly in Rosser so something or someone must have made me change my mind.

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            It could be said at the time  that these most dramatic events followed months and months of the most tense of negotiations.   On December 10 , 1869 Riel with the help of close associates , Ambroise-Dydime , Lepine and W.B. ODonoghue , hoisted the flag of the “Provisional Government”  of the pole in center square of Fort Garry.    In design the standard of the new assembly is a fleur-de-lis on a full white backgrounnd.

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Farmers across Canada itself were struggling all the time to cope with the suffering and sufferings brought on by this great depression.  In Manitoba itself , farming was the backbone of the provincial economy.  When farmers suffered  the province of  Manitoba suffered.  Annual per capita income in Manitoba declined from $ 466 in 1929 to $ 240 in 1933.  Although Manitoba’s economy was less dependent on wheat and the wheat crop than that of Saskatchewan and Alberta ” the economic support of nearly 40 % of Manitoba’s population virtually collapsed”  due to the large drop in grain prices according to the report of Roswell-Sirois Royal Commission on Dominion Provincial Relations which was released much later in 1940 , just as the world was beginning to come out of economic doldrums due to war in Europe.  The co-relation was no news to the fine people of Winnipeg and rural Manitoba.

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MANITOBA POEM

IT’S WINTER IN MANITOBA

AND THE GENTLE BREEZES BLOW

SEVENTY MILES AN HOUR

AT THIRTY-FIVE BELOW

OH HOW I LOVE MANITOBA

WHEN THE SNOW’S UP TO YOUR BUTT

YOU TAKE A BREATH OF WINTER AIR

AND YOUR NOSE GETS FROZEN SHUT

YES, THE WEATHER HERE IS WONDERFUL

SO I GUESS I’LL HANG AROUND

I COULD NEVER LEAVE MANITOBA

CAUSE I’M FROZEN TO THE GROUND!!

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                It is always an interesting case in academia.  “Publish or Perish:” is the motto and byline.

                Yet is rather amazing in that the once famous book which came forth from the University of  Manitoba academia was not from a liberal arts source – an English or History professor of note – but rather from a Chemistry Professor of all sources.

                The book in question is Sarah Binks , the author being Paul Hiebert

From the Canadian Encyclopedia

Sarah Binks, by University of Manitoba professor Paul HIEBERT, was published 1947 in Toronto. That the “Sweet Songstress of Saskatchewan” never drew breath has not prevented Hiebert’s imaginary poet from holding in thrall the hearts of those for whom she has immortalized the “Saskatchewanesque” voice in Canadian letters.

Sarah’s accomplishments are legend: founder of the influential “geo-literary” school of Canadian verse; creator of such heart-rending lyrics as “Hiawatha’s Milking”; winner of Saskatchewan’s highest poetic honour – the Wheat Pool Medal – for her epic “Up From the Magma and Back Again”; dead, tragically young, of mercury poisoning from a cracked thermometer.

Fortunately, by the time of her death her charming lyrical gifts, her sharp eye for natural detail, her acute ear for tripping metre, and her unerring sense of clinching rhyme had already secured her reputation; consider, for example, the oft-quoted opening of “My Garden”: A little blade of grass I see, / Its banner waving wild and free, / And I wonder if in time to come / ‘Twill be a great big onion.

Which of our real poets of the prairies has rivalled the verse of Hiebert’s sweet creation? Hiebert judiciously traces the complex and subtle interweaving of Binksian life and art; his definitive biography memorialized the imperishable power, beauty, and grace of the Binksian oeuvre.

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