Territorial Grain Growers' Association

It provided a voice for farmers in their struggle with grain dealers and the railways, and was influential in obtaining favorable legislation.

The 1908 "Partridge Plan" listed other "ill practices" that included "the taking of heavy dockage, the giving of light weight, misgrading the farmers' grain sold on the street or graded into store, failure to provide cleaning apparatus, changing the identity of the farmers' special binned grain, declining to allot space for special binning and refusing to ship grain to owner's order, even when storage charges are tended.

There was a bumper crop that year, and farmers found they could not get their produce to market because the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) and the grain companies were still failing to conform to the act.

[4] In December 1901 William Richard Motherwell (1860–1943) and Peter Dayman of the Abernathy district arranged a follow-up to the Indian Head meeting.

Motherwell and Matthew Snow of Wolseley began touring the region and encouraging farmers to form local TGGA associations.

[6] The delegates at the February meeting approved three recommendations proposed by Motherwell for changes to the Grain Act.

[8] Motherwell and Peter Dayman went to Winnipeg to complain to CPR, where they were told that the railway was having difficulty adapting to the rapid growth in wheat production.

[9] There was no visible improvement in the situation, and after a few months the TGGA presented a formal complaint against the CPR's Sintaluta agent before the Warehouse Commissioner.

Away East the news was magnified till it became: "The farmers out West have licked the CPR in court and are threatening to tear up the tracks!

[13] Edward Alexander Partridge of Sintaluta, began to push the TGGA members to demand tighter control of the grading system and inspection of elevators.