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Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba

  • R-1527
  • File
  • 1800-1979

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.

Nicholas Garry at Slave Falls, 1821

  • R-D346-D (17)
  • Item
  • 1958 or before

Item is an illustration entitled "Nicholas Garry at Slave Falls in 1821" that was commissioned for the 1959 Hudson's Bay Company calendar. The image presents a scene of Nicholas Garry's travels to the united fur trading posts of the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company that emerged following their merger in early 1821. In the foreground of the images are persons seated on the side of a flowing river and who are drinking and/or eating, with a top hat and cloth bags are resting on the ground beside some flowers. In the centre of the background is the far shore of the river (with rocks and trees), in back left of image an individual is standing on rocks with one hand on his hip and a paddle in the other, and in the back right two persons are transporting an overturned canoe on the shoulders.

Woods, Rex, 1903-1987

Port Churchill, Hudson's Bay

  • A0033.45 (S)
  • Item
  • 19--

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

Saskatchewan Historical Society fonds

  • F 635
  • Fonds
  • 1845-1945

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.

Saskatchewan Historical Society, 1936-1951

Student Essays

  • R-1348
  • File
  • 1966-1978

Collection of student essays from University of Regina classes regarding North-West Territories and Saskatchewan history.