Co-op College History - Centre for the Study of Co-operatives

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1. Brett Fairbairn, Building a Dream: The Co-operative Retailing System in Western Canada 1928–1988
(Saskatoon: Western Producer Prairie Books, 1989), pp. 77–91.
2. Ian MacPherson, “‘An Act of Faith and Optimism’: Creating a Co-operative College in English
Canada 1951–73,” in Knowledge for the People—The Struggle for Adult Learning in English Speaking
Canada, ed. E. Whelan (Toronto: Osie Press, 1987), pp. 170–85.
3. Joseph Kaibe Mollo, “Profit vs. Co-operation: The Struggle of the Western Co-operative
College” (master’s thesis, University of Saskatchewan, 1971), pp. 16–18. Siemens and his colleagues
were unable to raise their entire goal. This was due to two factors: Siemens was unwilling
to approach the large co-op organizations, and anti-German (and therefore anti-Mennonite) sentiment
after the war prevented support from outside southern Manitoba.
4. ICI minutes of board meeting, 3 March 1954, Saskatchewan Archives Board, Saskatoon, Micro.
S–1.113 R 1–3.
5. Ibid.
6. “Co-op education will be pushed,” The Co-operative Consumer [henceforth C.C.], 5 February 1954.
7. Harold Chapman in conversation with author, 25 August 1999; C.C., 9 March 1951, p. 1; C.C., 11
March 1955, p. 7. In 1951, the U of S began to offer courses in co-operative organization and
management. They were designed to be incorporated into a Bachelor of Commerce degree under
Management. The first course appears to have begun in April 1955 and was sponsored by FCL.
8. The organization became Saskatchewan Federated Co-operatives Limited in 1944, when it merged
with Consumers’ Co-operatives Refineries Ltd.
9. Maaniche’s theory was frequently referred to by Harold Chapman and other leaders in the co-op
movement. The theory predicts the life cycle of a co-op as only a generation and a half without
the fuel of further co-op education for adults and particularly for youth.
10. This department was created in 1944 by the newly elected CCF government.
11. “Plan programme of co-op education for people in north of province,” C.C., 29 August 1952, p. 3.
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