Commercial grain mills have operated in Canada for over two hundred years.
Canada is a young country, founded as a federation of provinces in 1867. Flour mills were operating in Canada more than 100 years earlier. The grandfather of all Canadian milling wheats was introduced to Canada in 1851. Some of Canada’s largest modern grain mills are operating at or near locations where mills have operated for more than 100 years.
Commercial scale wheat and oat mills operate in 8 of Canada’s
13 provinces and territories. Total milling capacity is shared about equally
between eastern and western Canada. The majority of wheat milling capacity
is in the east in close proximity to larger urban centres. The majority
of oat milling capacity is situated in the Prairie provinces.
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