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Compilation of former pamphlet and clipping collections in the Regina office of the Saskatchewan Archives Board. Materials promote immigration to Western Canada and describe the country, climate, homestead regulations, etc. for intending immigrants.
Includes publications issued by the Canadian Department of the Interior and the Department of Immigration and Colonization. File 8 includes the publication entitled The Last West. Files 15, 20 and 21 relate to irrigation. Includes records relating to land, land classification and land agents. File 66 includes a photocopy of a document entitled The Esterhaz colony: as it was and is now, 1885-1902.
Hand-coloured lantern slides to promote William Pearson Co. Ltd. excursions to Last Mountain Valley, Saskatchewan area. Images are portraits, including (1)-(2) William Pearson.
Hand-coloured lantern slides taken during William Pearson Co. Ltd. excursions to Last Mountain Valley, Saskatchewan area. Images are of the Valeport, Saskatchewan properties of the Wm. Pearson Co. Ltd., including (1) the Valeport bridge, (2)-(3) the Summer Resort Pavillion, (4) the Lake Ridings Ranch building, and (5)-(7) a large Wm. Pearson Co. Ltd. Props building with garden.
Hand-coloured lantern slides taken during William Pearson Co. Ltd. excursions to the Last Mountain Valley, Saskatchewan area. Images are (1) a group of unidentified men standing by a lake, (2) men holding rhubarb, (3) four men sitting on rocks, (4) two men walking (possibly at the Pearson Valeport Properties), and (5) a man in a coat and hat.
Hand-coloured lantern slides likely taken during William Pearson Co. Ltd. excursions to the Last Mountain Valley, Saskatchewan area. Image is of students and a priest possibly in front of an Indian Residential School.
Hand-coloured lantern slide taken during William Pearson Co. Ltd. excursions to the Last Mountain Valley, Saskatchewan area. Image is of four grain elevators at Holdfast, Saskatchewan with the note that "over 400,000 shipped last year from this point."
Hand-coloured lantern slide taken during William Pearson Co. Ltd. excursions to the Last Mountain Valley, Saskatchewan area. The composite image shows the lobby and dining room of the Arlington Beach Hotel, Last Mountain Lake.
Hand-coloured lantern slides taken during William Pearson Co. Ltd. excursions to the Last Mountain Valley, Saskatchewan area. Images are of farms and farmhouses, including (1)-(3) houses with round barns, (4) a traditional Ukrainian house, (5)-(9) wood frame houses, (10) wood frame house with a barn, and (11) barns.
Hand-coloured lantern slides taken during William Pearson Co. Ltd. excursions to Last Mountain Valley, Saskatchewan area. Images are of (1)-(2) a turkey and (3)-(6) cattle grazing.
Hand-coloured lantern slides taken during William Pearson Co. Ltd. excursions to the Last Mountain Valley, Saskatchewan area. Images are of (1)-(2) landscapes, (3) a panoramic photo of a train on the prairie, and (4) a car driving along a treed road.