John and Rebecca Russell family genealogy notes, clippings and correspondence
File contains genealogical material concerning the John and Rebecca Russell family that homesteaded in the Crescent Lake, Saskatchewan district. Includes photocopied newspaper clippings and correspondence, and annotated family history research notes.
Records of Edwin Jackson Brooks
Original and typed copies of 67 letters written by Edwin Jackson Brooks to his wife, Helena (Nellie) Oughtred Brooks, concerning his trip west from Lennoxville, Quebec, and his settlement at Indian Head, 1882-1884; scrapbook of newspaper clippings from The Montreal Weekly Witness and Manitoba Free Press regarding the North-West Rebellion and trial of Louis Riel; and special editions of The Daily Leader, Regina, dating from July 21 to August 1885, (incomplete) containing reports on trial of Riel and others.
Found in the archives : Saskatoon's first relief measure
Item component is a slightly edited transcription of a story by Barbara E. Anderson (née Hunter) that she submitted in 1932 to Campbell Innes, who at the time was broadcasting stories related to the history of Saskatchewan.
The story describes the trip that Anderson's father, William Adam Hunter, took in March 1884 from their homestead in the Saskatoon area to Duck Lake in order to obtain enough flour to support his family and other Saskatoon settlers.
Article is supplemented by a black and white photograph showing the Stobart Mill in Duck Lake - the destination of William Hunter described in the story.
Transcription can be found in volume 65, issue 1 of Saskatchewan History, beginning on page 6.
Anderson, Barbara E. Hunter (Mrs.)
Art Nouveau, Immigration Propaganda, and the Peoples of Saskatchewan
Item component is an article by Georgina M. Taylor that appears in volume 50, issue 2 of Saskatchewan History beginning on page 31.
Taylor, Georgina M.
Reminiscences : The Urbanization of An Arab Homesteading Family
Item component is an article by Habeeb Salloum that appears in volume 42, issue 2 of Saskatchewan History beginning on page 79.
Salloum, Habeeb
Tales of Western Travellers : Daniel Williams Harmon
Item component is an article by John Archer that appears in volume 4, issue 2 of Saskatchewan History from page 62 to 78.
Archer, John Hall (Dr.), 1914-2004
Monuments to the Great Depression
Item component is an article by Donald Zuck that appears in volume 39, issue 3 of Saskatchewan History beginning on page 114.
Zuck, Donald A.
Louis Riel's Insanity Reconsidered
Item component is an article by Frank W. Anderson that appears in volume 3, issue 3 of Saskatchewan History from page 104 to 110. The article attempts to review the evidence of Riel's life (including religious education, claims of a divine mission, and ambition to lead the Metis) as it relates to his sanity by the time of his trial in 1885.
Anderson, Frank W., 1919-2008
Tales of Western Travellers : Philip Turnor, Inland Surveyor
Item component is an article by Margaret Messer that appears in volume 3, issue 2 of Saskatchewan History from page 57 to 63.
Messer, Margaret
Volume 2 of Saskatchewan History.