You had 11 Moto-Ski models from which to choose if you contacted the retailers listed in this ad from our Oct. 24, 1968 issue. According to Wikipedia, the Moto-Ski company of LaPocatière, Quebec started snowmobile production in 1963. It was purchased in 1971 by Bombardier, and the last year of production was 1985.
That issue reported on the Manitoba Pool Elevators annual meeting, at which president W.J. Parker said he would step down after 45 years with the organization. He took over as president in 1940 after MPE’s second president Paul Bredt died suddenly while attending Alberta Wheat Pool’s annual meeting in Calgary. However, in the next issue we reported that the MPE board had met and asked Parker to stay another year, to which he had agreed. Harold Sneath of Elgin became chairman of the board and president the following year.
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Delegates to the meeting heard a discussion on the possibility of regional variety licensing to accommodate farmers from outside the Prairies who wished to grow higher-yielding but lower-quality wheat varieties. At that time the licensing standards were national, but the Board of Grain Commissioners had allowed Nova Scotia farmers to grow a variety called Opal.
Speaking to the MPE meeting, chief commissioner C.L. Shuttleworth said that the time had come for the end of having to have grain grades ratified by Parliament. “Qualified men in the grain trade, and in the Board of Grain Commissioners and the Canadian Wheat Board, should be able to go to the government and say that the change should be made,” we reported Shuttleworth as saying.
