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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 slide taken during William Pearson Co. Ltd. excursions to the Last Mountain Valley, Saskatchewan area. Image shows landseekers in carriages and a stook in a field. Tag line says "303 bushels per acre and rural telephones in less than three years."

Hand-coloured lantern slide taken during William Pearson Co. Ltd. excursions to the Last Mountain Valley, Saskatchewan area. Image is of stooks in a field near Simpson, Saskatchewan. Also has the tag line "40 bushels to the acre in 1913".

Hand-coloured lantern slide taken during William Pearson Co. Ltd. excursions to the Last Mountain Valley, Saskatchewan area. Image is of cattle grazing, taken at W.C. Rees' farm near Liberty, Saskatchewan, originally from North Dakota. There is also the line "the successful wheat farmers also raise cattle".

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 slide taken during William Pearson Co. Ltd. excursions to the Last Mountain Valley, Saskatchewan area. Image is of two men holding a row of about sixteen fish.

Hand-coloured lantern slide taken during William Pearson Co. Ltd. excursions to the Last Mountain Valley, Saskatchewan area. Image is of trees, tents and people near Last Mountain Lake, Saskatchewan.

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 slides taken during William Pearson Co. Ltd. excursions to the Last Mountain Valley, Saskatchewan area. Images are of the grain elevators at Simpson, Saskatchewan.

Hand-coloured lantern slides taken during William Pearson Co. Ltd. excursions to the Last Mountain Valley, Saskatchewan area. Images are of (1)-(2) landseekers on a boat or ferry, (3) men examining crops, (4) a farm yard, (5) two men standing in a field, (6) a man on a horse-drawn carriage, and (7) a man and a boy emptying a load of grain at an elevator.