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Selected reports from the Manuscript Report Series. Includes bibliography and unedited manuscripts of the Parks Canada Research Division (with appendices A-E, incomplete).

File 25 relates to buffalo pounds. File 55 (306) includes manuscript report no. 306 by R.R. Rostecki relating to architecture in Saskatchewan. File 40 (252) relates to the structural history of Fort Battleford. For fur trade, see files nos. 17 (131), 22 (159), 29 (202), 32 (207) and 62 (355). For Fort Walsh, see files nos. 5 (62), 26 (174), 28 (200), 34 (213), 46 (281), 48 (286), 66 (374), 75 (400) and 79 (409). File nos. 41 (264) and 68 (378) relate to Grey Owl. File 12 (92) relates to the Cypress Hills Massacre. File nos. 47 (285), 49 (288), 50 (289), 51 (290), 52 (293), 53 (294), 54 (295), 55 (306), 56 (310), 57 (311) and 58 (312) relate to courthouses. File nos. 23 (164), 35 (219), 42 (267), 43 (275), 44 (276) and 60 (320) relate to Lanark Place, Abernethy. File 12 (92) relates to Indian artifacts.

Records created, accumulated and used by Percival Hector Gordon relating mainly to his activities as a law student, lawyer, churchman and judge. Includes correspondence and financial records relating to the construction of the P.H. Gordon residence at 2424 College Avenue in Regina, Saskatchewan.

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.

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.

Photocopied correspondence of Sir John Alexander Macdonald with Lieutenant Governors of the North-West Territories.

Original and typed copies of 67 letters written by Edwin Jackson Brooks to his wife, Helena (Nellie) Oughtred Brooks, concerning his trip west from Lennoxville, Quebec, and his settlement at Indian Head, 1882-1884; scrapbook of newspaper clippings from The Montreal Weekly Witness and Manitoba Free Press regarding the North-West Rebellion and trial of Louis Riel; and special editions of The Daily Leader, Regina, dating from July 21 to August 1885, (incomplete) containing reports on trial of Riel and others.

Excerpts from newspapers in Paris, France regarding the trial and execution of Louis David Riel and a pamphlet dated 1886 entitled Socialisme et Colonies signed "Louis Riel".

Pamphlet entitled, The Red River Insurrection: Three Letters and A Narrative of Events. Published by The Aborigines' Protection Society, Adelphi, London, 1870. 28 p. (original and photocopy)

A reprint from The Pacific Historical Review, September,1934 entitled, The Background of the Riel Rebellions, by Jonas A. Jonasson, Linfield College.

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.

Addresses, brochure, clippings, letters and papers relating to Louis Riel's activities in Manitoba and Saskatchewan concerning the Riel Rebellion, the North-West Mounted Police, land claims, the trial and the execution of Riel at Regina, November 16, 1885; photographs; and artifacts, including candlestick, wooden cross and rosary beads, reliquary, religious medallions, a watch, and prayer book. Includes references to Riel's diary. Includes publication entitled Louis Riel: A Bibliography, compiled by the Provincial Library, 1972.