Pioneer CO-OP

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Your Community Builder

Organized in July of 1936, Pioneer Co-op has become a fixture in the community of Swift Current, Saskatchewan.   Pioneer Co-op has grown from a simple service station to a place that will satisfy all of your shopping needs.  Membership has its benefits.  Pioneer Co-op is locally owned and controlled by its members.  Profit is returned to the members based on their patronage.

There are two major department stores in the city of Swift Current that are owned and operated by  Pioneer Co-op.  The Wheatland Mall location contains Grocery, Pharmacy, Ladies Wear, Men’s Wear, Footwear, Hardware, Plumbing, Lumber and Floor Covering departments.  The Wheatland Mall location also has a Service Station, which includes a Touchless Carwash.  The Southside location contains Grocery and Pharmacy departments as well as a Service Station which includes a Touchless Carwash as well.

Pioneer Co-op has an enormous presence in the surrounding communities as well.  Pioneer Co-op maintains branches in Kyle, Tompkins, Stewart Valley, Gull Lake,  Frontier, Hodgeville, Cabri, Abbey, Sceptre, Morse, and Ponteix.  Keylock locations are maintained in Aneroid and Neville.  This ensures a high availability of service to our rural customers.


EquityCo-op Membership Benefits

The best $5 investment you may ever make. That's right...only $5 buys you a membership in the Pioneer Co-op, and you immediately begin sharing in the Co-op's success.  With each 
purchase at one of our locations, you build equity. At the end of the year when our financial statement shows a profit, you share in that profit in proportion to your purchases.      

Supporting your Co-op and providing your member number at the check-out is an excellent investment for future years. Only Co-op returns its profit to local member-owners.
Just come to any of our locations and complete a new member application form. You'll be on your way to enjoying the many benefits of a Co-op membership!

When you become a member-owner of Pioneer Co-op, you are making a sound business investment in a community organization that provides both economic and social benefits. Your Co-op is an attractive alternative to chain stores and private business because you're the owner and the profits belong to you. That is why co-ops refer to their profits as "savings". Savings are distributed to each member-owner based on his or her patronage. And the more patronage a co-op receives, the greater the savings it can generate for its member-owners.

Building Together

Paperless Cardlock Invoice

Green PlanetIn an effort to “Go Green”, we now have the ability to email your cardlock invoice to you. Your cardlock invoice will be emailed to you on the first of the month and will replace the current paper copy you receive with your statement. Please print out this consent form and return it to Pioneer Co-op, 1150 Central Ave. N., Swift Current, SK, S9H 0G1.

Click here to download the MS Office DOC file.

Click here to download the PDF file.

Our Trading Area

                                PIONEER CO-OP'S TRADING AREA

History

Pioneer Co-operative Association Ltd.
It was early 1936 in Swift Current. The Swift Current Oil and Gas Co. Ltd. was in existence, with R.E. West as Chairman of the Board, N.E. (Cy) Cowan as Secretary, and J.O. Grinder as Manager. The company was in the gas and oil business at a location on Fourth Ave. N.W. between Chaplin and Cheadle Streets.

There was also a branch of the company at Stewart Valley. At a meeting on April 11, 1936, the Board of the Swift Current Oil and Gas Co. Ltd. passed a motion to call an extraordinary meeting of its shareholders to consider reorganizing the company as a co-operative.

This meeting of shareholders was held on April 25, 1936, and a motion was passed to form a co-operative and sell the assets to the co-operative. On the same day, the Directors of Swift Current Oil and Gas met and passed a motion to form the co-operative with capitalization of $20,000 (800 shares at $25.00 per share). Also that day, a meeting of said co-operative named Lars Hendrickson, Ingman Nelson, Ben Cropper, Walter Krinke, and Ben Howden as the group to deal with Swift Current Oil and Gas. The Charter for Pioneer Co-operative Association was taken out over the signatures of Hendrickson, Nelson, Cropper, Krinke, and Howden.  On July 6, 1936, a meeting of Swift Current Oil and-Gas shareholders officially proclaimed the company a co-operative. The first Annual Meeting of Pioneer Co-operative Association was held on February 27, 1937. The first Board of Directors elected included A.M. Thistlethwaite, W.A. Dafoe, Lars Hendrickson, W.A. Carefoot, J.O. Grinder, and Roy Trumble. W.A. Dafoe was selected chairman of the board, and A.M. Thistlethwaite was vice-president, with N.E. (Cy) Cowan hired as secretary/treasurer. The Co-operative was to advertise for a manager.

Decision was made to print (and sell) $5.00 share applications. (The earlier decision to transfer $25.00 shares from Oil and Gas Co. and this decision to sell $5.00 shares were to cause considerable discussion over subsequent years.)

 

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