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2 C REWE derstanding and application of adult-education methods. Thus the vision, the practical need, and the required practice were amalgamated to form a unique blend of co-operative education based at what became known as the Co-operative College in Saskatoon. From 1955 to 1987, the curriculum expanded to manager training, youth programmes, northern Aboriginal programmes, and courses for international students in developing countries. Partnerships were developed with universities, community groups, Women’s Co-operative Guilds, and co-operative and nonprofit organizations across Canada and overseas. C ENTRE FOR THE S TUDY OF C O - OPERATIVES
“A N E DUCATIONAL I NSTITUTE OF U NTOLD V ALUE” T HE V ISION FOR A C O-OPERATIVE E DUCATION C ENTRE IN C ANADA HE IDEA OF CREATING A CO-OPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL Tcentre in Canada began with Jake Siemens, a teacher, farmer, and co-op activist in southern Manitoba. Siemens, who was largely responsible for the creation of the Rhineland Agricultural Society in 1931, was a member of Manitoba Co-operative Wholesale (MCW) and an organizer of the Winkler Co-op Creamery and Altona Co-op Vegetable Oils. 2 Siemens travelled to folk schools in Denmark during 1948. Upon his return he proposed a co-op educational centre in Canada based on the folk-school models, which would provide instruction in co-op philosophy, be active in research, and have the ability to grant degrees. Known for his idealism and passion for grassroots education, Jake Siemens convinced fellow co-operators in the area to support a co-op education centre. Siemens offered eighty acres of his own land as a site, and brought together an organization committee, chaired by J.A. Fehr, also a member of MCW. They succeeded in selling forty lifetime memberships at one hundred dollars apiece to other co-operators in southern Manitoba sympathetic to the cause. 3 After this initial limited success, board members of the first International Co-operative Institute (ICI) expressed optimism for their common vision by writing, “We who are members of ICI, small in number though we have been, have laid a modest foundation on which may be built an educational institute of untold value.” 4 In 1955, soon after these events in Altona, MCW and Saskatchewan Federated Co-operatives Limited amalgamated to form Federated Co-operatives Limited (FCL). This marked the beginning of a new era of growth in the western co-operative retailing system, and the demand for employee and director training increased. In 1954, before the creation of FCL, O CCASIONAL P APERS S ERIES #01–01
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