This fonds consists of records created, accumulated and used by the William Pearson Company, Ltd. in their activities buying, selling, and advertising land in the Last Mountain Valley, Saskatchewan area.
The types of records included are: correspondence of Wm. Pearson Co. Ltd. and its successor, Pearson & Son, Ltd.; land examination and crop reports from 1909-1913 (T20-30 R24-25 W2; T21-28 R26-27 W2), 1925 (T7-30 R24-26 W2), 1929 (T20-30 R24-26 W2; T38-39 R4-9 W2), and 1934 (T20-30 R14-26 W2), including its successor, Middle West Land Co. (Manitoba); promotional brochures, pamphlets, booklets, and hand-coloured glass lantern slide transparencies which were taken on excursions in the Last Mountain Valley area; a lantern slide projector; maps of the land holdings and sales of Wm. Pearson Co. Ltd.; a mimeographed copy of memoirs written by William Pearson; and a photograph of the Strassbourg rail station.
No series assignment has been applied to the records in this fonds.
Wm. Pearson Co., Ltd., 1906-1925