Letter book consisting of copies of David Laird's outgoing letters, written in his capacity as Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories, 1876-1881, and as superintendent of Indian Affairs for the North-West Territories, 1876-1879; David Laird's notes of lectures on logic delivered by Professor Ross at theological seminary, West River, Pictou, 1856; admission tickets to Greek and humanity classes at theological seminary of the Presbyterian Church of Nova Scotia, 1856-1857.

Addresses presented to Mr. Forget, his replies, and addresses by him; commissions of appointment; materials relating to half-breed claims and commissions and Indian industrial schools; visitors' registers from Government House, 1893-1910. File VI.3a relates to Christmas.

The fonds consists of records created, accumulated and used by Alexander Morris during his political career. The fonds includes correspondence during the period that Morris served as Minister of Inland Revenue (1869-1872); Chief Justice of Manitoba (1872); Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba and Keewatin (1872-1877); and Lieutenant-Governor of the North-West Territories (1872-1876).

A copy of "The Treaties of Canada with the Indians of Manitoba, the North-West Territories and Kee-wa-tin" (1880) is available at S-Q127.

An index to correspondents has been filmed with the records. Records are filmed chronologically by author.

No series assignment has been applied to the records in this fonds.

File no. 554 includes a document entitled Lieutenant Colonel Irvine and the North-West Mounted Police, by Edmund Montague Morris, being a historical sketch of the North West before and after the establishment of the North-West Mounted Police (NWMP).

Compilation of former pamphlet and clipping collections in the Regina office of the Saskatchewan Archives Board relating to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Includes annual reports and biographical information and obituaries for officers. Includes article on Mounties at Fort Walsh by Wallace Stegner.

Two unidentified male Indians in braids and blankets photographed at Fort Walsh.

Records created, accumulated and used by the Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories including correspondence, proclamations, tenders, speeches, a letterbook containing letters relating chiefly to various territorial issues and a scrapbook. A small amount of records relating to the Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan are included.

Includes a register of mail received in the Lieutenant Governor's office from January 1897 to September 1904. Includes a letter from Jno. Stuttaford, Fort Walsh, inquiring if he is eligible for compensation from the Indian department for loss of cattle killed by Indians, December 8, 1882. Includes correspondence, chiefly with the Farmers North-West Land and Colonization Company, regarding the proposed bridge for Boggy Creek, 1882.

Includes circular from the Department of State, Ottawa, enclosing circular from Secretary of State for the Colonies regarding the issuing of passports to naturalized aliens, May 18 to October 4, 1882. Includes correspondence regarding appropriations for the Government of the North-West Territories and expenditures by it, February 28, 1882 to September 29, 1883. Includes verbatim report of the debate in the Legislative Assembly of the North-West Territories on the estimates, April 25, 1899. Includes Privy Council instructions for Lieutenant-Governor Joseph Royal. Includes copies of speeches at the opening and closing of the Dominion Parliament and Legislative Assemblies of Canada and Newfoundland , January 7, 1899 to July 20, 1905. Includes commission to Matthew Ryan and Hugh Richardson to administer oaths of allegiance and of office to Honourable David Laird as Lieutenant-Governor of the North-West Territories and to his successors, October 7, 1876.

Includes letter from Reverend Alfred Osborne regarding subscription promised by Lieutenant-Governor Dewdney to St. Paul's Anglican Church, Regina building fund dated January 3, 1883. Includes letter dated October 25, 1882 from T.E. Jackson, Prince Albert, protesting against act requiring druggists to have a diploma from a medical faculty to practice in the Territories.

Includes a scrapbook relating to the territorial exhibition in Regina in 1895 consisting mainly of newspaper clippings, programmes, entry forms, prize lists, and letters sent to agricultural societies by Lieutenant Governor Mackintosh.

Includes copy of letter regarding wells at the North-West Mounted Police headquarters at Regina written by Inspector P.R. Neale to Frederick White, comptroller of the NWMP, November 5, 1883.

Includes commission to Matthew Ryan and Hugh Richardson to administer oaths of allegiance and of office to Hon. David Laird as Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories and to his successors, October 7, 1876.

Includes oaths of allegiance and of office taken by Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan Archibald P. McNab, September 30, 1936. Includes oaths of allegiance taken by Lieutenant Governors of Saskatchewan Hugh Edwin Munroe and Archibald P. McNab, January 23, 1936 and December 15, 1936.

Includes letter from A.W.R. Markley of Prince Albert regarding his appointment as issuer of marriage licenses, December 10, 1882.

Box 1 contains a verbatim report of the debate on the estimates in the Legislative Assembly of the North-West Territories, April 25, 1899.

Includes notice of reservation of all government land in township 17, range 20, west of the second meridian (townsite of Regina) by Lieutenant Governor Edgar Dewdney, June 30, 1882.

Includes applications for appointment as notaries public and justices of the peace, September 8, 1882 to January 4, 1883 and application for appointment as issuer of marriage licenses, October 13, 1881.

Includes tenders for construction of government buildings, steam heating and plumbing and electric bell system for Lieutenant Governor's residence in Regina, August 13 to September 7, 1882.

Includes correspondence regarding liquor permits, especially with reference to the application of the Saskatchewan Club, Prince Albert, for a liquor permit; letter from John A. MacDonald regarding permits, July 12, 1882-September 9, 1895; specimen North-West Territories liquor permit, cancelled North-West Territories liquor permits, February 6, 1893-April 24, 1903.

Includes correspondence, chiefly with the Farmers North-West Land and Colonization Company regarding a proposed bridge for Boggy Creek, September 21 to December 18, 1882.

Includes correspondence regarding the reservation of townships from pre-emption and homstead entry at three crossings on the Canadian Pacific Railway: Medicine Hat Coulee, Seven Persons River and Swift Current Creek, October 23 to November 22, 1882. Includes a portion of a letter recommending the issuing of patents for land at Prince Albert, 1882?.

Includes budget speech delivered by the territorial treasurer (Hon. A.L. Sifton) in the Legislative Assembly of the North-West Territories on Thursday, June 6, 1901.

Includes correspondence regarding bridges in the Broadview district and over Battle and Qu'Appelle Rivers; copy of indenture between Neil Bayne and William McGillivrary and Robert Doull and G.R. Pugsley, all of Winnipeg, for construction of bridge over Qu'Appelle River, 1882-1883.

Includes letter from Sr. Sicurd, Hospice St. Joseph, Lac la Biche, acknowledging receipt of cheque, September 22, 1882.

Includes copies of speeches at the opening and closing of the dominion Parliament and the Legislative Assemblies of Canada and Newfoundland, January 7, 1899-July 20, 1905.

Includes correspondence regarding bridges in the Broadview district and over Battle River and Qu'Appelle River and copy of indenture between Neil Bayne and William McGillivray and Robert Doull and G.R. Pugsley, all of Winnipeg, for construction of bridge over Qu'Appelle River, 1882-1883.

Includes letter dated December 18, 1882 from Timothy Chambers, late farm instructor at Eagle Hills, requesting that his son be allowed to take his place until fall at the Battleford Industrial School.

Includes guest lists and table plans for luncheon, dinner and reception in honour of the Governor General and Lady Minto, September 23-24, 1900.

Includes letter from D.L. Scott to R.B. Gordon, Clerk of the Legislative Assembly, regarding examinations for prospective justices of the peace, August 10, 1894. Includes correspondence of Lieutenant Governor David Laird with Secretary of State and Minister of the Interior regarding conduct of Blackfoot Indians, appointment of justices of the peace, and fixing seat of government of North-West Territories at Swan River (letterbook copies of 6 letters), 1876-1877.

Includes Dominion of Canada, province of North-West Territories, instructions for his honour the Lieutenant Governor, Joseph Royal.

Includes notebook of statistics relating to Indians of the North-West Territories, 1887-1888 (Box 1). Includes correspondence of Lieutenant Governor David Laird with Secretary of State and Minister of the Interior regarding the conduct of Blackfoot Indians, appointment of justices of the peace, and fixing seat of government of North-West Territories at Swan River (letterbook copies of 6 letters), November 24, 1876 to March 15, 1977; correspondence file index, 1878-1881. Includes proclamation of Manitoba and the North-West Territories regarding the cutting of timber by Indians outside their reserves and by white men inside the Indian reserves, March 1, 1872. Includes ordinance or draft ordinance regarding importing of poisons into North-West Territories, March 1871.

Includes report and correspondence from S. Gagnon, inspector with North-West Mounted Police, Fort Saskatchewan, regarding commitment of Joseph Grey as a dangerous lunatic, October 1882.

Includes telegram from L. Clarke to Edgar Dewdney, received at Carleton via Battleford regarding incorporation of local joint stock companies, February 17, 1882?.

Includes letters regarding refusal of "executive interference" in the case of Roderick Ross, convict at Stony Mountain penitentiary in Manitoba, January 5-12, 1883. Includes letter from John White & Sons of Exeter, Ontario requesting assistance in starting a newspaper in Regina, October 1882. Includes letter from W.B. Scarth to Edgar Dewdney introducing Thomas Smith, lawyer, November 9, 1882. Includes letter to A.E. Forget acknowledging receipt of school registers from Richard Secord, Victoria, Alberta, September 26, 1882.

Includes proclamation, Manitoba and the North-West Territories, regarding cutting of timber by Indians outside their reserves and by white men inside the Indian reserves, March 1, 1872; ordinance or draft ordinance regarding importing of poisons into North-West Territories, March 1871.

Includes letter from Edward McDonald, proprietor of Marquette flouring mills in Portage la Prairie, giving quotations on flour and oats, January 10, 1883.

Includes Block Plan of Residence for the Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territory at Regina, 30 September 1882; plans of the Department of Indian Affairs Storehouse at Regina, North-West Territories and Foundation Plan and lower floor plan, June 1892; and plan of Government Buildings, Regina, NWT Proposed Additions to Lieutenant Governor's Residence and Council Chamber [1905 or before].

Includes descriptions and plans of certain Indigenous First Nations in the province of Manitoba and the North-West Territories by John C. Nelson, in charge of surveys. 1889.

Publication written by Reverend Daniel M. Gordon, Ottawa, Ontario and published by Dawson Brothers, Publishers, Montreal, Quebec. The publication is based on notes taken by Dawson while a member of a party assigned by the Canadian Government to obtain information regarding certain proposed routes for the Canadian Pacific Railway in May, 1879.

Group of Indians in front of teepees. 1880's.