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Prince Albert settlement. File No. 44719: Charles Mair and D.H. Macdowall re: Prince Albert lands and other matters (1882, 14 p.); File No. 57904: Secretary of State, claims of Prince Albert settlers (1883-1885, 35 p.); File No. 65366: Land Commission, Prince Albert land claims (1883-1884, 120 p.); File No. 108352: return of Order-in-Council authorizing exchange of lands by the Prince Albert Colonization Company (1886, 6 p.); File No. 168325: D.H. MacDowall Military Bounty warrants to Prince Albert Volunteers and rebellion losses claim of Alcide Legare (1888, 8 p.); and File No. 249248: epidemic amongst horses near Prince Albert (1890, 23 p.). Copied from the Public Archives of Canada. R.G. 15.

York Farmers' Colonization Company, File number 41345, copied from the Public Archives of Canada, R.G. 15.

A ledger for a general store which was operated by C.H. Harvey and W.A. Cohoon at Westhope, Saskatchewan, located north east of Macrorie. The first 40 pages contain ledger entries from February 1906 to July 1906 for the Great Western Land Company.

Records include sixty photocopied letters, written by Syver Aasberg of the Findlater-Chamberlain, Saskatchewan district to family back home in Norway, between ca.1904 and 1951 of his first-hand accounts of emigrating from Norway to Canada, homesteading and raising a family. Letters were translated to English by Omar Aschim in 2003. Records also include copies of homestead records, family educational certificates, death certificates, family pedigree charts, ancestral farm information, and family photographs, compiled by Aasberg's daughter, Anne Enmark.

Cummins (Coumans) Saskatchewan Land Map Series, sheets 1-68, c. 1917 and Cummins Rural Directory Maps, c. 1920, 1922, 1926 (Eastern Saskatchewan) and 1930 (north of township 22). Issued by the Cummins Map Company, Winnipeg.

Resource manual prepared by Local 601 to provide information on basic issues in agriculture: transportation, orderly marketing, economics of farming, plant breeders' rights, land use policy, environmental issues, matrimonial property, children's rights, country women of the world and National Farmers' Union structure.

The Rehabilitation of the Prairie Wheat Economy by G.E. Britnell of the University of Saskatchewan. Reprinted from the Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science, Vol. 3, No. 4, November 1937. 22 p.

A booklet called Prairie Farm Rehabilitation which contains articles reprinted from the December 1939 issue of the C.S.T.A. Review, published quarterly by the Canadian Society of Technical Agriculturists, Ottawa, Ontario. 101 p. (3 copies)

Transcript of radio address given by G.J. Matte, Commissioner, Northern Settlers' Re-establishment Branch over Station CJRM on January 31, 1939. 6 p.

Transcript of radio address given by G.J. Matte, Commissioner, Northern Settlers' Re-establishment Branch over Station CJRM on February 7, 1939. 7 p.

Transcript of radio address given by G.J. Matte, Commissioner, Northern Settlers' Re-establishment Branch over Station CJRM on February 14, 1939. 8 p.

An article called "How Saskatchewan Dealt with her 'Dust Bowl'" by Allan R. Turner of the Saskatchewan Archives. Originally published in The Geographical Magazine, Vol. XXVIII, No. 4, August, 1955. 12 p.

A book called Prairie Resources and PFRA [Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration], published by Canada Department of Agriculture, 1969. 78 p.

Reports of land use surveys conducted by the agricultural committees of various rural municipalities.

Records pertaining to homesteads patented after 1930, river lots, transfers, pasture leases, and grants; special files and samples of timber and grazing leases. Also contains letter books of Dominion Lands office, Prince Albert (1887-1888), Dominion Lands office, Moose Jaw (1916), and monthly diaries of homestead inspectors (1912-1929).

General records of the Department of Municipal Affairs, 1908-1945, and of the Local Improvement Branch of the Department of Public Works, 1901-1908, including deputy minister's correspondence, 1928-1944 and files relating to a variety of matters such as lands forfeited, relief, collection of taxes, budget estimates, salary lists, and the village of Hatton. Inspectors' reports on Towns, Villages, Rural Municipalities and Local Improvement Districts, School Districts, and special investigations are also included.