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File part consists of a blank Saskatchewan Archives' questionnaire pertaining to local government, and a picture of a stone house (built in 1908).
Questionnaire number 10 on local government was organized into sections on: statute labour districts and local improvement districts before 1908; township local improvement districts and rural municipalities after 1908; villages; and towns and cities.
File part consists of the response by/about Arthur R. Dohlen to the Saskatchewan Archives' questionnaire pertaining to pioneer housing. Archives staff recorded that the respondent indicated on the questionnaire that they or their family came to Saskatchewan and/or the Canadian prairies in 1905.
Questionnaire number 9 on housing was organized into sections on: temporary structures (e.g. sod or log houses; even if the family lived in the building for many years); permanent structures (e.g. including the "better" house built after living for a time in quarters mentioned in temporary structures, a permanent home built upon arrival, or the "homestead shack" that may have been added to and continued as a permanent house); and general (e.g. winterizing; additions; animals/pets; furnishings; windows and ventilation; windbreaks; fire protection and emergency measures/features).
Letter from Mrs. Earla Burton to the Department of Natural Resources, requesting that her son, Earl Allan Burton, 1918-1943, have a Saskatchewan lake named after him as a tribute to a soldier who died in World War II, July 6, 1957. 2 p.
Article called "William Cousins of Medicine Hat: Crackerbox Bill Save the Day for Him in 1883". It is about William Cousins, b. 1856, celebrating his 80th birthday, source unknown, [1936?]. 1 p. Cousins was a Medicine Hat merchant, mayor and publisher.
Copy of letters from Mrs. H.C. Atton of Gallivan, Sask. to the Minister of Natural Resources, that includes biographical information about Robert Esmay, 1921-1943. This information was obtained in the naming of geographical locations in Saskatchewan after soldiers who died in World War II. 3 p.
Copy of the Department of Natural Resource application form for the naming of a Saskatchewan geographical location after a serviceman who died in World War II: Philip Harper, 1917-1944. 1 p.