United Farmers of Alberta
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| Agricultural supply cooperative | |
| Founded | 1909 |
| Headquarters | Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
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Key people
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Carol Kitchen, President & CEO |
| Products | Agriculture, Retail, Petroleum, & Construction Hunting, Fishing, Camping |
| Revenue | 2.1 billion CAD (2011) |
| Members | 120,000 |
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Number of employees
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1,295 (2008) |
| Subsidiaries | Wholesale Sports, Spruceland Lumber, Bar-W Petroleum and Electric, Stirdon Betker, Maple Leaf Petroleum |
| Website | ufa.com |
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United Farmers of Alberta
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| President | Henry Wise Wood (1916-?) |
| Political leaders |
Henry Wise Wood (1919-21) Herbert Greenfield (1921-25) John Edward Brownlee (1925-34) Richard Gavin Reid (1934-35) |
| Founded | 1919 |
| Dissolved | 1939 |
| Preceded by | Alberta Non-Partisan League |
| Newspaper | The U.F.A. (1922-1934), The United Farmer (1934-1936) |
| Ideology | Progressivism, Agrarianism, Social Democracy |
| National affiliation |
Progressive Party of Canada (~ 1920-1930) Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (1935-1939) |
| Governed with support of | Alberta Labor Representation League, Dominion Labor Party (Alberta) |
The United Farmers of Alberta (UFA) is an association of Alberta farmers that has served different roles in its 100-year history - as a lobby group, a successful political party, and as a farm-supply retail chain. As a political party, it formed the government of Alberta from 1921 to 1935.
Since 1935, it has primarily been an agricultural supply cooperative headquartered in Calgary. As of 2012[update], UFA operates 35 farm and ranch supply stores in Alberta, over 100 fuel stations in British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan, and 25 outdoor adventure sporting goods stores in Western Canada and the Pacific Northwest.
UFA was founded in 1909 as a government lobby group following a merger between the Alberta Farmers' Association and Alberta branches of the Canadian Society for Equity. The UFA began as a non-partisan organization whose aim was to be a lobby group promoting the interest of farmers in the province. In 1913, under president William John Tregillus, the UFA successfully pressured Alberta's Liberal government to organize the Alberta Farmers' Cooperative Elevator Company (AFCEC), which joined with other Prairie elevator companies to eventually become the United Grain Growers. Tregillus was the first president of the AFCEC.
The UFA was a believer in the co-operative movement and supported women's suffrage. In 1912 women founded the parallel United Farm Women of Alberta, and in 1914, women were granted full membership rights in UFA itself.
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