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"Wheat as far as you can see" - prospective settlers inspecting fields of stooked wheat. William Pearson Land Company excursion.

Members of William Pearson Land Company excursion eating lunch.

William Pearson of the William Pearson Land Company and his field manager, R.S. Dewar speaking with prospective settler, Charles Appelgate.

Special excursion train of the William Pearson Land Company at Last Mountain Valley.

Large crane dredge widening creek at Valeport in the Qu'Appelle Valley.

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.

Certificate of registration as a pharmaceutical chemist and authorization to practise as a chemist and druggist, issued to William Pettingell of Regina, North-West Territories by the Pharmaceutical Association of the North-West Territories, July 4, 1892.

Share certificate issued by the Regina Machine & Iron Works, Ltd. to William G. Pettingell, April 25, 1907.

Map of the Last Mountain Valley showing choice selected wheat lands, published by the William Pearson Company.

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".