George Fisher Chipman (18 January 1882 – 26 December 1935) was a Canadian journalist who edited the Grain Growers' Guide for many years.
George Fisher Chipman was born on 18 January 1882 in Nictaux West, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia.
[2] The agrarian activist Edward Alexander Partridge helped organize the Grain Growers' Guide.
[3] The first issue appeared in June 1908 as the official organ of the Manitoba Grain Growers' Association (MGGA).
[9] The Guide covered topics of interest to western Canada prairie farmers including politics, cooperative associations, animal husbandry and new agricultural techniques.
[10] At the annual meeting of the MGGA in January 1917 Chipman argued that if conscription were enacted, wealth should be enlisted first.
She supported giving all immigrants the right to vote, opposed conscription without a plebiscite, and believed the issues should be freely discussed in public.
[13] Chipman became convinced that it would be in the interest of the grain growers to support the government on the conscription question, and that this would help advance the Farmer's Platform of full women's suffrage and re-distributive personal and corporate income taxes.
It supported a more organized system of grain marketing to shield farmers from price fluctuations and ensure reliable railway transport for their crops.
In 1920 he wrote an editorial in which he attacked the special interests who he said were trying to use the threat of withdrawal of advertising to muzzle the paper.