Edward A. Partridge (Ed) was born November 5, 1861, on a farm near Dalston, 12 miles north of Barrie, Canada West, into a large family with 9 brothers and 4 sisters. Edward, at age 21, and one brother went west where they homsteaded in Sintaluta, Saskatchewan in 1883. In 1885 Edward taught school in Broadview, Saskatchewan and he participated in the Riel Rebellion of 1885 with the Yorkton Rangers. He was author of "A War on Poverty" and was the founder and first president of the United Grain Growers' of Saskatchewan in 1906. He was the "father' of the co-operative grain growers marketing system and of the Canadian Council of Agriculture. He was also the first editor of the Grain Growers Guide, which was later named "The Country Guide". Partridge was honorary president of the United Farmers of Canada. He and his wife had five children: May(who died while swimming), Edna, Enid, Charles and Harold. Both sons died in France during World War I. In a binder accident Edward had to have one leg amputated, which caused him to live in pain for the rest of his life. Shortly after his wife died he moved, with his youngest daughter, to Victoria in British Columbia. Edward A. Partridge died from a room filled with gas August 3, 1931 in Victoria, British Columbia. In 1962 a portrait of E. A. Partridge was unveiled at the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto, to be housed later in the Canadian Agricultural Hall of Fame.* *Trent University archives in Peterborough

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