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Reports published by the University of Saskatchewan, College of Agriculture, federal Department of Agriculture, Dominion Bureau of Statistics and other organizations relating to farm business, income, indebtedness, financial progress and economic classification of land in various parts of Saskatchewan.

Includes a report by E.C. Hope and R.A. Stutt entitled An Economic Study of Land Settlement in the Albertville-Garrick Area of Northern Saskatchewan, 1941. Includes an article by G.E. Britnell entitled Saskatchewan, 1930-1935 relating to droughts and relief measures.

Maps and lists of school districts belonging to S.J.A. Branion, inspector of Schools for the Wolseley inspectorate, Department of Education.

Records relating to the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) branch line between Reston, Manitoba and Wolseley, Saskatchewan, which was authorized for closure by the Board of Transport Commissioners in 1960. Includes records of the Railway Abandonment Protest Committee, 1940 and the Railway Retention Committee, 1960.

Includes information and correspondence relating to library grants, the establishment of libraries and mechanics institutes, the purchase and borrowing of books and periodicals, and lists of libraries and institutes operating in the province. Includes petition from Doukhobor settlers, Arran, for establishment of a library of Russian books (1917) and correspondence relating thereto.

File no. 3 dates from 1908 to 1928 and includes lists of books and periodicals purchased by the Estevan Public Library and correspondence regarding library expeditures and grants from the Department of Education. File no. 12 includes lists of books and periodicals purchased by the Oxbow Public Library, information about library expenditures and correspondence regarding grants from the Department of Education, 1908-1927. File no. 13 includes lists of books and periodicals purchased by the Prince Albert Public Library, information regarding expenditures, report of secretary-treasurer for 1899 and 1902, lists of members of original mechanics and literary institute (1899 and 1907) and correspondence regarding grants from the Department of Education.

Includes records relating to the Regina Public Library including lists of books and periodicals purchased by the Regina Public Library; information regarding library expenditures and correspondence regarding grants from the Department of Education, 1908-1928. File 19 includes lists of books and periodicals bought by the Weyburn Public Library, correspondence regarding the formation of mechanics and literary institute and establishment as public library (1920), list of subscribers to mechanics institute (1907) and information regarding library expenditures and correspondence regarding grants from Department, 1906-1928.

File 11 relates to the library in North Battleford including correspondence regarding the resignation of librarian, H.F. Boyce, due to salary, working conditions, etc., 1919-1920.

Includes papers relating to his career as Member of the Legislative Assembly, 1917-1938; Member of Parliament, 1925-1927; Saskatchewan Cabinet Minister, 1927-1929 and 1934-1938; director of the PFRA, 1938-1947; and as member of the International Joint Commision, 1947-1957.

School registers, minutes, financial statements, maps and general administrative files.

Includes: minutes of the Executive Committee; minutes of deanery conferences and meetings; parish returns; parish vestry minutes, account books, service registers; photographs; and "History of Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Lang" by Darrel Hockley (10 p., see file VII.112A). The Canadian Church Railway Mission (Diocese of Qu'Appelle) (Box 4) contains reports on the work of the Church Railway mission in various Saskatchewan communities. See Occasional Paper No. 164, Spring 1938, page 26 for obituary for Mary Spring-Rice, wife of Gerald Spring-Rice. See Occasional Paper No. 189, Summer 1951, page 22 for notice regarding death of Mrs. Alice Court.

Diary kept by John Allen during his journey from Toronto, Ontario to the Primitive Methodist Colony of Pheasant Forks, North-West Territories, April 19 to June 12, 1882; homestead records of Henry Joshua Kenyon relating to his land at SW 30-20-9-W2, 1891-1899; report on Saskatchewan Grain Growers' Association in Regina, Saskatchewan, 1915?; and obituary notice for Samuel Kenyon, a pioneer of the Primitive Methodist Colony. The records were loaned for microfilming by Mrs. F.A. Kenyon of Lemberg, Saskatchewan in April 1952.

Document entitled Beyond My Grasp, being the reminiscences of Jacob Miller as told to Mr. Litzenberger of Neudorf, Saskatchewan. Miller was a German who served in the Canadian Army during World War I.

List of emigrants from Benbecula, South Uist, Invernessshire, 1883, and story of trip from Scotland to Pipestone district, near Wapella, with a group sponsored by Lady Cathcart, 1883. Records were loaned for copying by Norman MacDonald of Wapella in April 1952.

Records of J. Fortescue McKay including reminiscences, articles and poems. Includes essay on Peter Pond's post and the Green Lake trail; article entitled The Steamboat Age on the Prairies; and reminiscences entitled By Steamboat to the Arctic.

Document entitled A Canadian Northwest Farmer's Life, written by William Gibson, a pioneer of Wolseley, Saskatchewan who farmed in the Wolseley district from 1883 to 1905 and was employed with the Saskatchewan Department of Agriculture before moving to Victoria, British Columbia in 1911. Published in The Ayrshire Post, April 4, 1884 to December 30, 1892.

Local Improvement District (LID) No. 52 assessment notice issued to J.L. Darwent, 1906. Record was loaned for copying by Mrs. Darwent in May 1952.

Document entitled True Story of Prairie Life, being the reminiscences of Mrs. Margaret Smith, a pioneer of the Battleford, Saskatchewan district. Loaned for copying by Mrs. Smith of North Battleford, Saskatchewan in April 1952.

Homestead records of Henry Joshua Kenton and a report of the Grain Growers' Association convention in Regina, Saskatchewan in 1915. Records were loaned for copying by Mrs. F.A. Kenyon of Lemberg, Saskatchewan in April 1952.

Document compiled by Arborfield Homemakers' Club and Arborfield Rural Municipality No. 456 containing a brief history of the Rural Municipality of Arborfield No. 456 and an honour roll from 1939 to 1945 with biographical information and photographs of servicemen. Published by The Tisdale Recorder, 1946.

Minute book of Wide Awake Epworth League dating from 1903 to 1911.

Illustrated Souvenir of Craik, Saskatchewan. 16 p.

Document entitled Chronicles of Craik Churches, compiled by G. Watt Smith. 1931. 15 p.

Records of Wolseley Electoral District Farmers' Institute consisting of minutes of the annual meeting on July 9, 1894; a financial statement dated June 30, 1894; and an annual report, 1893-94.

Records of the Wolseley Mechanics and Literary Institute consisting of a minute book and financial statements, 1894 to February 26, 1907.

Records relating to the United Church in Gray, Saskatchewan loaned for microfilming by T.E. Helstrom of Gray on January 22, 1958. Records consist of minute book [Bratt Lake circuit of Methodist church from November 12, 1906; Wilcox circuit, August 17, 1907 to February 11, 1913; Riceton circuit, May 1914 to October 30, 1922?; Gray Church, November 20, 1922 to 1951]. 199 p.

Items removed from the cornerstone of the Methodist Church in Indian Head, Saskatchewan and microfilmed in February 1957 including part of a letter listing members of quarterly official board, May 1898; historical sketches of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, the Methodist church, and the United church, compiled by R.J. McDonald, with addition by Carl Pearen; minutes of the Manitoba and North-West conference of the Methodist church, 1897; copies of The Prairie Witness, May 15, 1898, the Christian Guardian, May 18, 1898; The Vidette, May 25, 1898; Winnipeg Daily Tribune, May 25, 1898; and Manitoba Free Press, May 20, 1898.

Frank Baines' reminiscences of 1883. Baines was a pioneer of the Saltcoats, Saskatchewan district. 8 p.

Biographical sketch of Mrs. Elizabeth Martin, wife of Alexander Martin, also known as Aunty Martin, compiled by the Wolseley Homemakers' Club in Wolseley, Saskatchewan. 4 p.

Document entitled The Story of a Pioneer: J.B. Linnell, Summerberry, compiled by Mrs. Ruth Linnell. The document relates to Joseph Benjamin Linnell (1866-1958). 10 p.

Document entitled Inchkeith Pioneers, chiefly a story of James Keith, compiled by Edna A. (Cunningham) Elder. 13 p. James Keith was born in 1847 and died in 1923.

Address delivered by Donald Alpine Smith on surveying in Saskatchewan to the Canadian Institute of Surveying. Address taken from the proceedings of the 25th annual meeting. 12 p.

Reminiscences of Mrs. Jeannie Munro Webster of Rosemuir farm, Semans, Saskatchewan with notes concerning other settlers in the district. 1954. 26 p. Mrs. Webster, born in 1887, died in 1966 and is buried in Semans Cemetery.

Document compiled by members of the Buffalo Plains Homemakers' Club being a narrative of Mr. J. Hawken entitled Buffalo Plains History: Pioneer Days of Buffalo Plains.