Edward Alexander Partridge, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian teacher, farmer, agrarian radical, businessman and author
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Place of Birth: Springwater, Ontario, Canada
About Edward Alexander Partridge
- Edward Alexander Partridge (5 November 1861 – 3 August 1931) was a Canadian teacher, farmer, agrarian radical, businessman and author.
- He was born in Ontario but moved to Saskatchewan where he taught and then became a farmer.
- He was active in the Territorial Grain Growers' Association (TGGA), founded in 1902, which addressed various problems with the Western Canada grain market.
- He founded the cooperative Grain Growers' Grain Company, the predecessor of the United Grain Growers, and the Grain Growers' Guide, a widely distributed weekly paper.
- His "Partridge Plan" was a broad and visionary proposal for addressing a wide range of farmers' issues, eliminating many abuses caused by the near-monopoly of grain elevator companies, and resulted in important reforms by the provincial governments.
- Patridge was named a National Historic Person in 2018.
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