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Publication written by Lyle Dick and published by Environment Canada, Canadian Parks Service. Chapter titles are as follows: Settlement of the Abernethy District; Homesteading Costs in the Abernethy District in the Settlement Period; Economic Development of the Abernethy District, 1880-1920; Work and Daily Life at the Motherwell Farm; Abernethy's Social and Economic Structure; Social Relationships; Abernethy's Social Creed; Agrarian Unrest in the Central Qu'Appelle Region; and Conclusion.

Booklet of stories compiled by the Kindergarten class of 1979-80 of Sacred Heart School in Yorkton, Saskatchewan. The stories relate to early life in Saskatchewan and the experiences of the students' parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents, including homesteading, school days, transportation, etc. The booklet includes stories by various students as follows: Rhondalee Chernipeski; Tracy McDougall; Carla Wheeler; Glen Ford; Heidi Smithson; Tyler Wheeler; Patrick Hood; Henrietta Just; Colin Holowka; Maria Michalchuk; Krista Dreher; Brenda Aichele; Tanya Rae; Shane Harris and Melanie Stachura.

Publication entitled, Dans la prairie Canadienne/On The Canadian Prairie, written by Gaston Giscard. Published by Canadian Plains Research Center, University of Regina.

Oral history kit produced and published by the Saskatchewan Archives Board entitled, Les Fransaskois se racontent: Témoignages de pionniers et de pionnières francophones de la Saskatchewan. Each kit includes two audio cassettes, transcripts and a teacher's guide.

French and English versions of the catalogue for Into the Silent Land : Survey Photography in the Canadian West, 1858-1900, a travelling exhibition organized by the Public Archives of Canada [now Library and Archives Canada]. Catalogued is by A.J. Birrell of the National Photography Collection Catalogue includes introduction to exhibition, description of the processes by which the images were produced, explanations for sections of the exhibition along with a listing of associated images and sample images. Sections are: Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploratory Expedition, 1858 : Humphrey Lloyd Hime; North American Boundary Commission, 1858-1862 : Corps of Royal Engineers; North American Boundary Commission, 1872-1875 : Corps of Royal Engineers; Geological Survey of Canada, 1871 : Benjamin Baltzly; Canadian Pacific Railway Surveys, 1871-1879 : Charles George Horetzky; Geological Survey of Canada, 1875-1900 : George Mercer Dawson and Joseph Burr Tyrrell; Dominion Lands Surveys and International Boundary Commission, 1886-1900 : Edouard Deville, James J. McArthur, William Ogilvie, Charles A. Bigger. The sample images included are: Encampment on the Red River showing Henry Youle Hind and others seated at a camp with an overturned canoe; a First Nations woman seated next to a tree; portrait of two members of the Kalispel First Nation; survey crew cutting a path through trees on the right bank of the Mooyie River; a camp for members of the Royal Engineers Survey Corps by North Antler River (includes carts and tents); waterfall/cascade on the Hammond [Garnet] River, B.C.; canoe being dragged onto shore to portage over a bluff for the Murchison's Rapids in the North Thompson River, B.C.; a seated group of Piegan people; totem poles and boats at a Skidegate [Skagit?] village on the Queen Charlotte Islands; survey party and carts in northern Manitoba; buildings for housing Chinese immigrants in Victoria; surveyors ascending a mountain in the Chilkat River district of Alaska.

Publication entitled, Writing Yesterday: Living History. Published by the Regina Public Library in Regina, Saskatchewan. Publication contains the written life stories of five participants in the Living History Project sponsored by the Regina Public Library and New Horizons. The participants were Ardath Bitney; Glenndoris Haggman; George Hamilton; Grace Motion; and Smelia Joorisity.

Issues of Prairie Forum, the journal of the Canadian Plains Research Center, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan.

The spring 1983 issue includes an article on the W.R. Motherwell and the Motherwell home in Abernethy, Saskatchewan and on ranches and ranching. The spring 1985 issue includes information on the Canadian Pacific Railway. The fall 1983 includes an article on Indians in western Canada.

Volume 1, No. 1, 1976 includes an article entitled Agriculture and river lot settlement in western Canada: The case of Pakan (Victoria), Alberta, by R.G. Ironside and E. Tomasky. It also includes an article entitled Canadian Conservation and the Cypress Hills, by Carl Norbeck and J. Gordon Nelson. Also includes article by W.H. Brooks entitled The Bible Christian Church in the West. The April 1976 issue includes information on river lots and an article by Lewis H. Thomas entitled A History of Agriculture on the Prairies to 1914. Includes information on Bible Christian Church. The Fall 1985 issue includes information on blacks in Saskatchewan.

The May 1977 issue includes information on grain marketing. The Fall 1985 issue includes information on the Grain Growers' Grain Company. The November 1976 issue includes information on rain and rainfall.