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Typewritten reminiscences of Mrs. Anne Bailey of Bjorkdale, Saskatchewan relating to the Depression in Saskatchewan in the 1930s and a dust storm in southern Saskatchewan on June 22, 1937.
Illustrated publication written by Olga Belisle and published by CANHO Enterprises. The publication tells the story of homesteading in the early 20th century in the Trewdale and Coderre, Saskatchewan districts. Includes details on Romeo and Obeline Belisle and family and other residents in the districts.
Letters written home by Percy A. Maxwell during his years as a homesteader in the developing period of Canada's West, April 1, 1903 to September 2, 1906; Letters of Percy Augustus Maxwell, 1967. 125 p.
Photographs created, accumulated and used by members of the Grant family. Includes images of agricultural machinery; post office in Riverhurst; buildings and Main Street in Landis; buildings and railway station in Dundurn; buildings and Atlantic Avenue in Kerrobert; Richlea lumber yards; farming operations; Wiseton School; an exterior view of Saskatchewan Legislative Building with grounds in front under development and cannon sitting on sidewalk in foreground; J.I. Case yards in Saskatoon ca. 1913; exterior view of St. Paul's Hospital, Saskatoon; Travellers Day in Saskatoon, 1918; Stanley Almighty Voice Jr. and family taken on One Arrow Indian Reserve near Batoche, Saskatchewan on October 13, 1940; and postcards sent to Ross Grant, James Grant and Mrs. James Grant in Ontario. A few images were taken by Skewis of Saskatoon.
File consists of the response by/about Hubert James Abrams to the Saskatchewan Archives' questionnaire pertaining to pioneer health. Archives staff recorded that the respondent indicated on the questionnaire that they or their family came to Saskatchewan and/or the Canadian prairies in 1905.
Questionnaire number 8 on health was organized into sections on: services of a doctor (e.g. distance; competency; visitation; charges and payment); hospital services (e.g. distance; organization; visitiation; births); home remedies (e.g. associated illnesses and treatments; sources; treatment of serious accidents; aids for the handicapped); public health problems (e.g. vaccinations; epidemics); dental services (e.g. distance; visitation; treatments and services); and general (e.g. prevention; steps taken by the community for improvements).
File consists of the response by/about Hubert James Abrams to the Saskatchewan Archives' questionnaire pertaining to pioneer housing. Archives staff recorded that the respondent indicated on the questionnaire that they or their family came to Saskatchewan and/or the Canadian prairies in 1905.
Questionnaire number 9 on housing was organized into sections on: temporary structures (e.g. sod or log houses; even if the family lived in the building for many years); permanent structures (e.g. including the "better" house built after living for a time in quarters mentioned in temporary structures, a permanent home built upon arrival, or the "homestead shack" that may have been added to and continued as a permanent house); and general (e.g. winterizing; additions; animals/pets; furnishings; windows and ventilation; windbreaks; fire protection and emergency measures/features).
Publication entitled "My dear wife and sweetheart": Letters from John Henry Duckett to his wife Florence from Saskatchewan during 1904-1905, edited by Floredeth Rede Widstrand and published by Digamma Books, Ottawa, Ontario. The publication includes genealogical information on the family and copies of letters written while Duckett, a lace designer born in 1870 in England, was preparing the family's homestead at Little Eagle Creek, near Saskatoon.
Includes copies of Duckett's original letters from 1904 and 1905, along with various notes regarding their transcription.
This file consists of federal Department of the Interior records related to homestead applications, land grants (letters patent), and/or land use enquiries that are associated with the person or organization (e.g. grantee, patentee) and (where identified) the land location specified in the title of the record description.
