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Canada's Wheat King: The Life and Times of Seager Wheeler.(Brief article)(Book review)
Canada's Wheat King: The Life and Times of Seager Wheeler, by Jim Shilliday. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, 177pp., illus., soft cover, $17.95. Wheeler was one of the great figures in Canadian agriculture. Discoverer of Red Bobs wheat, he made grain growing a ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Canada's Wheat King: The Life and Times of Seager Wheeler.(Brief...