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Compilation of former pamphlet collections in the Regina office of the Saskatchewan Archives Board.

File 35 contains the publication Farm Life in the Selkirk Colony. Files 14 and 46 relate to mounds and mound builders. File 49.25 includes Wapella Farm Settlement by Cyril Edel Leonoff. Includes article on the life and times of Archbishop Alexandre A. Taché by Maurice Prud'homme (No. 11, 1956, p.4-17). File 13 relates to chinook winds. Files 2, 20, 23, 49.5, 49.10 and 49.26 relate to fur trade.File 49.17 relates to Archibald Dale, a cartoonist with the Winnipeg Free Press. File 30 relates to Crow Wing Trail. Files 3 and 49.12 relate to Alexander Kennedy Isbister.

Includes Exploration Photographer: Humphrey Lloyd Hime and the Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition of 1858, by R. Huyda (Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba Transactions Series III No. 30, 1973-74). No. 27 (1970-71) includes biographical information on William Kennedy (1814-1890).

No. 29, 1972-73, includes an article by Dr. E.C. Shaw entitled The Kennedys - An Unusual Western Family.

This fonds consists of records created, accumulated and used mainly by the secretary of the Saskatchewan Historical Society during its operation in Regina, Saskatchewan. The fonds contains the administrative records of the Society along with the records relating to the history of the province from the mid 19th century to 1945 compiled and collected by the Society in fulfillment of its mandate.

The types of records included are secretary's annual reports; correspondence; minutes; financial statements; a constitution; an annual meeting programme; newspaper clippings; personal narratives; essays; obituaries; biographical sketches; photographs; articles and speeches.

No series assignment was applied to the records in this fonds.

See SHS 97 for a letter regarding the massacre of Blackfoot and Blood Indians by Crees (Red Ochre Hills massacre) and an article by C. Wetton regarding Fine Day, Cree warrior. See SHS 94 for a letter and note regarding a table in the Saskatchewan Legislative Library known as the confederation table. See SHS 129 for correspondence regarding Indians serving in World War II and an Indian gathering on Assiniboin Reserve, September 9, 1941, to dedicate themselves to war services, enfranchisement of Indians, etc. See SHS 159 for document written by Neil Brodie entitled Twelve Days with the Indians, May 14 to May 26, 1885, regarding his experiences in Poundmaker's camp during the rebellion of 1885. See SHS 150 for the 1935 report of the Royal Commission on the Natural Resources of Saskatchewan.

Pamphlet entitled, Review of the Claims of "The Pioneers of Rupert's Land", 1836 to 1870. Prepared and issued by the Executive Committee, Pioneers of Rupert's Land, Winnipeg, March 20, 1914. 14 p.

Programme for the Centenary Pilgrimage To The Churches of the Red River Valley, October 14, 1920; being the hundredth anniversary of the arrival of the Reverend John West, the first Anglican missionary to the Red River settlement. (2 copies)

Pamphlet entitled, Red River's Festive Season, by Margaret Arnett MacLeod. October, 1962. Published at Winnipeg, Manitoba. 18 p.

Booklet on Saint Boniface, Manitoba in celebration of their 150th Anniversary, 1968. Includes information on Joseph Norbert Provencher (1787-1853) and Alexandre Antonin Taché.

Huson's Bay Company (Red River Settlement) Return to an Address of The Honourable the House of Commons, date February 9, 1849. 115 p. (original and photocopy)

Volume 100, No. 1, Centennial Edition of The Nor'-Wester, Winnipeg, July 15, 1970. Includes information on the North-West Rebellion, 1885.

William McTavish, Governor, Hudson Bay Company. McTavish died 1870.

Milestones in the Progress of the Hudson's Bay Company in the celebration of their 275th Anniversary, 1945.

Memorials presented to the Commissioners, Under the Treaty of July 1, 1863, between Great Britain and The United States, for the Final Settlement of the Claims of the Hudson's Bay and Puget's Sound Agricultural Companies; presented April 17, 1865. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1865. 30 p.

Le règne de la Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson. Mémoires S.R.C., Section I, 1914. Par L'Hon. Juge L. A. Prud'Homme, May 29, 1913.

A souvenir book on Beaver House, the headquarters of the Hudson's Bay Company. Published by The Hudson's Bay Company from their house in Great Trinity Lane in the City of London. Map of the Dominion of Canada showing the establishments of the Hudson's Bay Company, inserted at the back of the book. [ca. 1951]

The Beaver, a magazine of the north, published quarterly by Hudson's Bay Company, outfit 276, June 1945. 58 p.

The Hudson's Bay Company's Monopoly of the Fur Trade at the Red River Settlement, 1821-1850, by Chester Martin. Reprinted from the proceedings of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, Volume VII.

A Study of the Expansion of the Hudson's Bay Company in the Saskatchewan River Region from 1774-1781, with Emphasis on Cumberland House and Hudson House, by Deanna M. Christensen. September 20, 1972. 45 p.

Correspondence; speeches re the early history of the north west, Fort Ellice Historic Site and his experiences with the Hudson's Bay Company; diary and notebook; article re his experiences during the Riel Rebellion, 1885; notes re Father Albert Lacombe, William McKay, the Franklin Expedition and forts of French fur traders, etc.

Angus McKay was born in 1858 and died in 1952.

Dominion Lands Survey files of individual surveyors employed in the area which comprises Saskatchewan. File I.512 relates to Saskatchewan Valley Land Company. Includes information relating to origins of place names. File I.187 includes black and white photographs dated 1920 and captioned Narrows on Besnard Lake; Looking up Drum Rapids; Foot of Elbow Rapid, Churchill River; Looking out into Lac la Ronge; Silver fox pelts, Ile-a-la-Crosse; and Snake Rapids 10 foot rock banks. File I.292 includes image of Lilian River looking upstream from bridge, SE 1/4 4-36-5-W2, dated 1923 (page 34) and image of Lady Lake looking north from south end of lake, 22-35-5-W2, dated 1933 (page 36).

Clippings accumulated and used by Eric Knowles relating to people and events in Saskatchewan's history. File 17 includes newspaper articles regarding pioneer days in Saskatchewan, early church life, pioneer tariff legislation on the prairies, the fur trade and early fur traders.

Last Mountain House site.

Shows fur trade posts at mouth of Churchill River. From A History of the Canadian West to 1870-71. Map No. 3.