The Wynyard Co-op celebrated its 90th birthday October 23rd 2018
A little History about the Wynyard Co-op
~1928 The Wynyard Co-op Association was organized on Oct.23,with a provisional board to carry on until the annual meeting. The main items that were handled at first were twine and coal. Twine was ordered in small lots and distributed from a grainery on the farm belonging to secretary-treasurer Ted Bardal. ~1929 The 1st annual meeting was held on Jan.20th with the following directors elected: Ted Bardel,James McLennan,J.K. Christianson,Hakan Kristjanson,Barney Johnson,T.J.Halldorson,Frank Eliason,G.E. Walker and A.B.Johnson.~1933 Discussion at a meeting was to start up a store in town."Lockers could be installed for each individual farmer that produce to sell to the towns people like butter,chicken,etc."~1934 A coal shed was built in town to serve the members~1939 A store building was first rented to sell oil products,hardware,tires and twine.~1944 A line of groceries was added when the business was moved to a newly renovated building which the association had purchased from S.Fishman, and moved to the north end of main street.~1948 Wynyard Co-op celebrated its 30th anniversary ~1955 A new lumberyard and the bulk storage facility was built on Ave. A West (where Briden Service is today) ~1962 A newly constructed Food Store at 316 Bosworth Street opened for business. ~1963 A service station was rented and later purchased. It was the former Wynyard Motors building where the current Wynyard Credit Union building resides. A 1975 Construction began on the Food Stores expansion to allow for more refrigeration. ~1988 The gas bar on the service road was purchased. ~1991 The consolidated bulk plant was built at Elfros and the bulk department was moved to the highway after the closure of the lumberyard and sale of the service bay. ~1995-1999 The Food Store on main street underwent upgrades. ~2001 Dedicated staff was credited as being one of the contributing factors in making the Wynyard Co-op one of Saskatchewan's fastest growing companies. ~ 2002 Unavailing of plans to construct a new Gas Bard/C-Store on the service road. Phase two of the plans onvolved the construction of an Agro Centre. ~2013 Work began on the new Food Store on the service road. ~2015 Grand opening celebration was held for the new Food Store. ~2018 Oct.23rd, Wynyard Cooperative Association celebrated its 90th anniversary. ~ 2019 plans for C-Store upgrade
