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Item is a photocopy of a map showing the railways, trails, and telegraph lines used in the Riel Rebellion of 1885 for the districts of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Keewatin, Assiniboia, and Manitoba, along with parts of Montana and North Dakota. Along top edge of sheet are illustrations of: Qu'Appelle Valley; Sir John A. MacDonald; and Medicine Hat (showing bridge crossing over South Saskatchewan River); along bottom edge of sheet are illustrations of: Kopiassiswean (alternately known as Koriassiswean or Bird Skin) based on photograph taken near Calgary in 1884; Major General Sir Frederick Dobson Middleton; crossed rifles with bayonets; "Savage Indian Warfare" - a depiction of a First Nations' warrior standing over a prone figure with a raised arm; Louis Riel; crossed tomahawk and Indian pipe; and Ne-Raip-A-Shaw.
Item is a reproduction of an image originally created about 1942, as an illustration for the 1944 Hudson's Bay Company calendar that shows an 1828 view of the Hudson's Bay Company's chief trader Archibald McDonald (1790-1853) and his party descending rapids on the Fraser River in an area above the present town of Yale, B.C.
Items are photographic reproductions of illustrations and text relating to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: R-A15225 (1) : Logo of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (depicts the head of a wheat stalk and the origanization's initials and its' motto in Latin). R-A15225 (2) : Illustration showing a scene of abundance (fruits, vegetables, fish, fishing net, wheat stook, sheep, chickens, trees). R-A15225 (3) : Text on "economically and technically" disadvantaged areas of food cultivation and illustration of manual food production technology leading to an empty bowl over a map of world. R-A15225 (4) : Text on advantages of improved technology for food production and illustration of mechanized food cultivation leading to bowl filled with food over a map of the world.
