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File part consists of a blank Saskatchewan Archives' questionnaire pertaining to local government, and a picture of a stone house (built in 1908).
Questionnaire number 10 on local government was organized into sections on: statute labour districts and local improvement districts before 1908; township local improvement districts and rural municipalities after 1908; villages; and towns and cities.
Item is a photocopy of a map showing the railways, trails, and telegraph lines used in the Riel Rebellion of 1885 for the districts of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Keewatin, Assiniboia, and Manitoba, along with parts of Montana and North Dakota. Along top edge of sheet are illustrations of: Qu'Appelle Valley; Sir John A. MacDonald; and Medicine Hat (showing bridge crossing over South Saskatchewan River); along bottom edge of sheet are illustrations of: Kopiassiswean (alternately known as Koriassiswean or Bird Skin) based on photograph taken near Calgary in 1884; Major General Sir Frederick Dobson Middleton; crossed rifles with bayonets; "Savage Indian Warfare" - a depiction of a First Nations' warrior standing over a prone figure with a raised arm; Louis Riel; crossed tomahawk and Indian pipe; and Ne-Raip-A-Shaw.
Items are photographic reproductions of illustrations and text relating to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: R-A15225 (1) : Logo of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (depicts the head of a wheat stalk and the origanization's initials and its' motto in Latin). R-A15225 (2) : Illustration showing a scene of abundance (fruits, vegetables, fish, fishing net, wheat stook, sheep, chickens, trees). R-A15225 (3) : Text on "economically and technically" disadvantaged areas of food cultivation and illustration of manual food production technology leading to an empty bowl over a map of world. R-A15225 (4) : Text on advantages of improved technology for food production and illustration of mechanized food cultivation leading to bowl filled with food over a map of the world.
Item is a mounted image from the southern Alberta badlands showing a First Nations person standing beside a horse, next to two men (possibly Northwest Mounted Police [NWMP] officers) on horses (one in profile, one shown from the rear). Scrub plant growth is in foreground of image and rocky outcrops (hoodoos) in background.
Image appeared in Canadian Illustrated News, May 22, 1875 (volume XI, number 21, p. 324).
Item is a framed colour lithograph is an artist rendition of the dead and dying at Frog Lake during the 1885 Rebellion event that has been characterised as the "Frog Lake Massacre." Image shows a First Nations man firing a rifle into a priest's back, a woman consoling a wounded man and applying a handkerchief to his chest, meanwhile four dead men lie on the ground nearby.
Illustration appeared in Canadian Pictorial and Illustrate War News, Souvenir Part 1 (1885-07-04, p. 7).
