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In the South Country: A reprint of a series of articles which appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press, Regina Leader-Post and Saskatoon Star-Phoenix in September, 1934, as the result of a tour of the drouth-stricken districts of Saskatchewan and Manitoba by D.B. MacRae, editor of the Regina Leader-Post and R.M. Scott, assistant agricultural editor of the Winnipeg Free Press. 43 p.

The Rehabilitation of the Drought Area. An address delivered by the Honourable John Bracken before the Canadian Club of Winnipeg on October 25, 1934. Published by the Manitoba Department of Agriculture. 15 p. (2 copies).

Drought on the Canadian Prairies. An Address Delivered at the Regina Board of Trade Luncheon on November 30, 1934 by A.M. Shaw, Dean of Agriculture, University of Saskatchewan. Issued by the Agricultural Extension Department, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, 1934. 12 p. (2 copies).

The Canadian Series of Jackdaws No. C13 on the Great Depression written and compiled by Charles Humphries and Clarke Irwin of Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited of Toronto, Ontario. Jackdaw consists of copies of newspaper articles, pamphlets, handbills and broadsheets. (2 copies). Date of production unknown.

Dramatized documentary: This film discusses the struggle of western Canadian farmers to create an orderly marketing system. It describes the advantages of an orderly marketing system and the history of the farmers' efforts to gain control the the process. The first grain producers organization formed in Canada was the Territorial Grain Growers Association at Indian Head in 1901. In 1923 the Alberta Wheat Pool was formed and in 1924 the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool and the Manitoba Wheat Pool were formed. The events leading to the creation of the Canadian Wheat Board in 1935 are also described. The film includes interior shots of the Canadian Wheat Board's building in Winnipeg showing many of the staff at work. Also shown is contemporary colour footage of men and women, dressed in period costume, operating old steam powered threshing machines. The Saskatchewan Archives has a film copy in its holdings - This film was copied to VT R-12135 (one VHS copy and one BetaCam SP copy) See also FILM R-193 and FILM R-3051.

Dramatized documentary: This film discusses the struggle of western Canadian farmers to create an orderly marketing system for wheat. It discribes the advantages of an orderly marketing system and the history of the farmers' efforts to gain control of the process. The first grain producer's organization formed in Canada was the Territorial Grain Growers Association at Indian Head in 1901. In 1923 the Alberta Wheat Pool was formed and in 1924 the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool and the Manitoba Wheat Pool were formed. The events leading to the creation of the Canadian Wheat Board in 1935 are also described. The film includes interior shots of the Canadian Wheat Board's building in Winnipeg, showing many of the staff at work. Also shown is contemporary colour footage of men and women dressed in period costume, operating old steam powered threshing machines. Note: there are 2 video copies - one VHS copy and one BetaCam SP copy. See also FILM R-193 and FILM R-3051.

A Region of the Mind: Interpreting the Western Canadian Plains, edited by Richard Allen. Canadian Plains Studies publication No. 1, published by the Canadian Plains Studies Center of the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus.

Western Canada 1909: Travel Letters by Wilhelm Cohnstaedt. Translated by Herta Holle-Scherer and edited by Klaus H. Burmeister. Canadian Plains Studies publication No.7, published by the Canadian Plains Research Center of the University of Regina.

Issues of the Western Canadiana Publications Project Newsletter, published by the Project's host institution, the University of Alberta.

Industrialism and Settlement in Western Canada, written by H.A. Innes. An extract reprinted from the Report of the International Geographical Congress, Cambridge, England.

Listing of subjects discussed and dealt with at the first through sixth annual conventions of the Associated Boards of Trade of Western Canada, 1904-1909. Also, an advertisement for the seventh annual convention of the aforementioned, to be held at Brandon, Manitoba, June 9-11, 1910.

Statement: Charles Gibbings, president of the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool, talks about agriculture and the economy in gereral along with Roger Phillips, Director of Research for the Wheat Pool. By: CL

Exploration in North America by John Palliser, [1857?]. 15 p. (photocopy).

Hudson's Bay Company's Northern Department: Journal of a Voyage from Fort Garry to Fort Simpson, MacKenzie River, by Land and Water, and of his Return by Dog-Train to Carlton, performed a tour of inspection of posts from Augus 22, 1872 to January 28, 1873. Written by William Joseph Christie, Inspecting Chief Factor of the Hudson's Bay Company. 23 p.

Manitoba and North West Territories. Letters by James Trow, M.P. (Chairman of Immigration and Colonization Committee) together with Information Relative to Acquiring Dominion Lands: Cost of Outfit. Published by the Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, Ontario, 1878. 100 p.

The Canadian North-West: Speech Delivered at Winnipeg by His Excellency the Marquis of Lorne, Governor General of Canada after his trip through Manitoba and the North-West during the Summer of 1881. Printed in Ottawa, Ontario, 1883. 16 p.

A Brief Narrative of the Journeys of David Thompson in North-Western America by J.B. Tyrrell, Field-Geologist of the Geological Survey of Canada, Toronto, Ontario, 1888. 28 p.

Synopsis of Lectures on Manitoba and the Northwest, delivered by Rev. John MacLean, Ph.D. (Carman, Manitoba) at the Methodist Young People's Summer School, Victoria College, Toronto, Ontario on July 19-29, 1902. Part of the Forward Movement for Missions, Series No. 4. 24 p.

Letters from the Canadian West by Rev. P.M. MacDonald. Published in Truro, Nova Scotia, 1903. 55 p.

Publication entitled Observations on Canada's Great West, by Daniel W. Iddings and others. Published by the Government Printing Bureau, Ottawa, 1903. 32 p. (2 copies). Copies are enclosed in a black folder with Canada's Great West Iddings, A.E. Forget embossed on it.

A Book of Contrasts: Illustrating the Great Development of Western Canada, [1906]. 14 p.

Souvenir of Western Canada: its Cities, Plains and Mountains. 1908. 32 p.

Canada's Fertile North: Evidence of Mr. R.E. Young, Superintendent of Railway Lands, Before the Select Standing Committee on Agriculture and Colonization, 1907-8. Printed by Order of Parliament, Ottawa, Ontario, 1909. 47 p. (2 copies).

The New North West: The Senate Report of 1907. Published under the direction of R.E. Youngs, D.L.S., Chief Geographer and Superintendent of Railway Lands, Ottawa, 1910. 139 p.

Home Making in Western Canada, Illustrated. Printed by the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Department of Natural Resources, Calgary, Alberta, [192-?]. 24 p.

Across Canada: An Annotated Guide to the Country Served by the Canadian Pacific Railway and its Allied Interests - Westbound, Part 2, West of Winnipeg and West of Chicago. Published by the Canadian Pacific Railway, Montreal, Quebec, 1921. 147 p.