Mac Runciman: A Life in the Grain Trade

by Paul Earl

One of the most turbulent periods in the history of prairie agriculture is chronicled in a new book about the life and times of Alexander "Mac" Runciman, the Saskatchewan farmer who led the United Grain Growers as president from 1961 to 1981. Mac Runciman earned the respect and admiration on both sides of the great agriculture debates of the 1960s and 1970s from individual farmers to Pierre Trudeau, who offered Runciman a cabinet post in 1980 (Mac...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887556663
• ISBN13: 9780887556661
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: University of Manitoba Press
• Length: 272 Pages