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Biog. - Thompson, Mrs. J.W. (Bella)

  • Clippings File - Biog. - Thompson, Mrs. J.W. (Bella)
  • Item
  • 19--

Article entitled Woman Who Fought Prairie Fire With Her Apron, Cooked Badgers Marks 75th Birthday in Regina. Article on former Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan pioneer Bella Thompson (nee MacMillan). Source and date unknown.

Biog. - Wooff, John

  • Pamphlet File - Biog. - Wooff, John
  • Item
  • 1975

Publication entitled Harbinger Farm, the recollections of John Wooff, who was born in England in 1898 and settled with his family in the Turtleford-St. Walburg district of the North-West Territories (later known as Saskatchewan) in 1907. The recollections date mainly from 1906 to 1920. (3 copies).

Blacks in Saskatchewan

  • Clippings File - Blacks in Saskatchewan
  • File
  • 195-? to 197-?

Information about James H. Dickson likely compiled by staff of Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan (at the time known as Saskatchewan Archives Board) from homestead file in the Saskatchewan Archives. [195-?-197-?].

Copy of letter from A. R. Turner, Provincial Archivist, to A. I. Bereskin, Controller of Surveys, Department of Natural Resources, regarding information about James H. Dickson and his history in Saskatchewan, dated June 22, 1965. Date copied June 22, 1965.

Copy of letter from Ruth Dyck Wilson, Staff Archivist, Saskatchewan Archives Board, Regina, Saskatchewan, to Mr. Michael L. King, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, U.S.A., regarding information about the settlement of black persons in Saskatchewan. July 19, 1984. Date copied unknown. [2 copies].

One page of handwritten notes regarding the history of black Canadians in Saskatchewan. Creator of notes unknown, [after 1949].

Photocopy of chapter fourteen from the book entitled Many Trails, by R. D. Symons, Copyright 1963 R. D. Symons, Windjammer edition 1970. Chapter fourteen is entitled Dixie Transplanted, and describes a visit to a black settlement in northern Saskatchewan. Date photocopied unknown. [2 copies].

Articles from various sources regarding immigration and homesteading by black persons in Saskatchewan and Alberta. [after 1946-1972]. Some copies included, date copied unknown.

Copy of article entitled The Creek-Negroes of Oklahoma and Canadian Immigration, 1909-1911, by Harold Martin Troper, The Canadian Historical Review, Vol. LIII No 3 September 1972. Date copied unknown.

Correspondence between Allan R. Turner, Provincial Archivist, Regina, Saskatchewan, and Mr. Robin W. Winks, Department of History, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, regarding the history of black Canadians in Saskatchewan, with particular interest in a settlement near Maidstone, dated July-October, 1959. Letters sent from Turner are copies of originals, copied the same date as the letters were written.

Article entitled How they kept Canada almost lily white: The previously untold story of the Canadian immigration officials who stopped American blacks from coming to Canada, by Trevor W. Sessing, printed in Saturday Night, September 1970.

Saskatchewan Archives Board

Boyer, Arthur J.

  • R-15
  • File
  • 1905-1946

Newspaper articles and addresses written by Arthur J. Boyer; article on J. Antoine Theriault, first parish priest of Montmartre; history of Montmartre by A.A. Latreille, 1928-1929; reminiscences of Dan Kennedy regarding early days of Montmartre; obituary of Alfred A. Latreille, 1954; "Pioneers Who Blazed the Scarlet Trail," by James Fullwood, N.W.M.P.; correspondence and memoranda regarding Montmartre pioneers; circular letter regarding first plate-glass shop in Regina, 1914.

Buildings on homestead of Charles F. Holmes

  • R-A21085 (1)-(2)
  • Item
  • ca. 1912 or 1913

Buildings on homestead of Charles F. Holmes, two shacks joined together, barns and cattle. A house added to the shacks. Winter.

CENTURY WEST

  • FILM S-1603
  • Item
  • 19--

Series: (1) Oldtimer Bill ? is interviewed. (2) Mr. & Mrs. Harry Pedersen of Donavon are interviewed. (3) Unidentified oldtimer from Bounty is interviewed. (4) Unidentified old timer from Hague is interviewed. (5) Unidentified oldtimer from Floral on Gordie Howe. (6) Unidentified old timer from Davidson is interviewed. (7) Unidentified woman. (8) Davie Smith of Alticane is interviewed. (9) Oldtimer Dave ? of Hanley is interviewed. (10) Aerial view of unidentified town. (11) Watrous. (12) Unidentified man from Sovereign is interviewed. (13) Various oldtimers. (14) Unidentified Polish pioneer. (14) Blacksmith Leo Willock of Marcelin is interviewed. (15) Town of Colonsay.

CFQC (Television station : Saskatoon, Sask.)

Charles F. Holmes and another man with wagons and oxen

  • R-A21080
  • Item
  • 1908

Charles F. Holmes and another man with two wagons, drawn by oxen, and loaded with supplies, on the way to his homestead near South Fork. Gull Lake Street with the Royal Restaurant, and a building with a bell.

Charles F. Holmes homestead

  • R-A21076
  • Item
  • 1908-11

Charles F. Holmes homestead near Gull Lake, a hole in the ground with a tent over it, supplies and lumber surrounding the tent. Holmes at the tent.

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