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The Grain Services Union traces its roots back to 1936 when elevator agents and office staff working for the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool formed the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool Employees' Association (SWPEA).

Over the years, SWPEA expanded to include all workers in Saskatchewan Wheat Pool's head office, elevator construction and repair division, terminal elevator offices, livestock division, and publications division.

In 1973, country elevator and construction employees of Manitoba Pool Elevators joined the union, and in 1974 the name was changed to the Grain Services Union.

Other groups of workers also organized to join the GSU: AgPro Grain terminal elevator employees in Saskatoon, Moose Jaw, and St. Boniface (formerly owned by Northern Sales and Elders Grain); AgPro Grain fish farm employees; Hillcrest Farms employees; Advanced Blueprint employees; and country elevator employees of Alberta Wheat Pool.

The Grain Services Union is affiliated to the Saskatchewan Federation of Labour, Alberta Federation of Labour, Manitoba Federation of Labour and was a direct affiliate to the Canadian Labour Congress until 1994. In that year, members voted to approve affiliating to the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (Canadian Area), although the connection to the CLC remains.

The Totnes Wheat Pool Committee was founded in 1925 by farmers in the Totnes, Saskatchewan area. Its initial chairman was J.H. Williams and Secretary was D.A. Williams. The Committee was made up of all farmer-members of the wheat pool, which was initially called the Saskatchewan Co-operative Wheat Producers until it was renamed the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool in 1953, in the area.

The Committee's purpose was: to promote the Pool to other farmers; to supervise local pool operations after the acquisition of the Saskatchewan Co-operative Elevator in Totnes in 1926; to discuss issues relevant to farmers; and to receive and disseminate communication from the delegates and directors of the Wheat Pool. The Wheat Pool itself was involved in advocacy, joint marketing (until 1931), and running local elevators. The Totnes Committee participated in these activities and was particularly involved in local elevator affairs until the sale of the elevator on July 31, 1972.

The Committee was located in District 11, Sub-District 1. The last confirmed date of Totnes Wheat Pool Committee activities is April, 1984, although the Committee may be active past that date.

Started as a war club in the Adair School District #1471. The school was on NW 26-10-31 RM #91 Maryfield.