A Letter from an Early Saskatchewan Settler
- PI-81-29.2 (3)
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- 1976
Item component is an article by D. Essar that appears in volume 29, issue 2 of Saskatchewan History from page 65 to 72.
Essar, D. A.
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A Letter from an Early Saskatchewan Settler
Item component is an article by D. Essar that appears in volume 29, issue 2 of Saskatchewan History from page 65 to 72.
Essar, D. A.
Item component is an article by F.A.D. Bourke that appears in volume 35, issue 2 of Saskatchewan History beginning on page 55.
Bourke, F. A. D.
A National Organisation in a Prairie City : The Regina Voice of Women, 1961-1963
Item component is an article by Maryanne Cotcher that appears in volume 56, issue 1 of Saskatchewan History beginning on page 21.
Cotcher, Maryanne
A Paper chase : The Prentice G. Downes fonds
Item component is an article containing the impressions on the contents and importance of the records for Prentice Gilbert Downes that were recently acquired by the Saskatchewan Archives. Impressions are provided with contributions from: Saskatchewan Archives' archivist Catherine Holmes; book editor Robert (Bob) Cockburn; McGahren Stewart Publishing company representative Hugh Stewart; northern researcher and Saskatchewan History contributor Les Oysteryk; and Saskatchewan History editor Myrna Williams. Component appears on pages 6 to 11.
Component is supplemented by images showing: journal entry by P. G. Downes; Downes carrrying goods and a paddle during one of his trips to northern Saskatchewan; First Nations' woman and child in a tent; First Nations' child standing near a tent where goods are piled outside; group of First Nations' People awaitng payment for signing over lands; caribou meat drying on racks adjacent a tent; John Custer; Downes wading at the stern of a canoe that is near shore of body water; group of First Nations People seated outside the opening of a tent; and Downes seated with pipe at the docks with a floatplane and boat visibile.
Williams, Myrna
Item component is an article by May Davis that appears in in volume 9, issue 2 of Saskatchewan History from page 63 to 69.
Davis, May, Mrs.
Item component is an article by Dr. Hugh Maclean that appears in volume 15, issue 2 of Saskatchewan History from page 58 to 66.
MacLean, Hugh, Dr.
A Prairie Fire in the Zelma District
Item component is an article by Albert Andrew that appears in volume 8, issue 2 of Saskatchewan History from page 68 to 69.
Andrew, Albert
A Prairie poet takes wing : Edna Jaques' rise
Item component is a brief biographical sketch of poet Edna Jaques, with an emphasis on her poem "In Flanders Now" (transcribed in its entirety) and how she became the first woman in the "west" to fly in an airplane. Component appears on pages 24 to 26.
Article includes a reproduction of Gladys Matheson Crim's diary entry for November 11, 1918.
Article is supplemented by photographs that depict: Gladys Crim, some colleagues and convalescent soldiers - Crim is shown holding bagpipes; unidentified nurse working on the ankle area of an unidentified solder; rows of soldiers laid out on stretchers with one nurse; from the funeral service for nurse Margaret Lowe, soldiers standing at attention with a small group holding a flag-draped coffin; an unidentified soldier (missing one leg) with a crutch under one arm and holding a fish in the opposite hand; and, "Queen Mary Tea Room at Woodcote Park Convalescent Hospital" with armed forces personnel at tables and at left someone at the piano.
Article is supplemented by drawings showing: the surrender of three German soldiers (captioned "Merci Komrad"); a single grave marker ("To an unknown British soldier killed in action at Ypres 29 April 1915") that was drawn by Corporal R. Gordon-Cumming; a man and woman (from behind) accompanied by two poems; German soldier as a "proposed design for the stained glass window of the future" accompanied by a poem by Corporal R. Gordon Cumming; a figure holding on to a post through which a shell has passed through (caption "The Last Post"); and a soldier smoking a cigarette whose smoke transforms into the image of a nurse (accompanied by note from C. R. Alexander).
Article includes coloured drawings (paintings?) showing: trees stripped of foliage and bomb bursts in air (captioned "Land marks of Ypres"); and a damaged building that has a path leading from foreground to background with an orange / red sky.
Williams, Myrna
"A prettier dump you never did see" : excerpts from the H. Vernon Peters letters
Item component is an article by H. Vernon Peters that appears in volume 53, issue 2 of Saskatchewan History beginning on page 16.
Peters, Herbert Vernon, 1912-
A Review of the Motherwell Homestead National Historic Site in Abernethy, Saskatchewan
Item component is an article by Bruce Dawson that appears in volume 60, issue 2 of Saskatchewan History beginning on page 40.
Dawson, Bruce