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Item is a recording of an interview of Colin Martin Lepage by D'Arcy Hande. Details include Lepage's reminiscences about the Lepage family background in Ontario, the move west to Saskatchewan in 1906, homesteading and blacksmithing at Prud'homme, early welding techniques, sports, village politics, and operating a John Deer dealership at Prud'homme.
Recording continues for approximately 10 seconds onto side B and is followed by a recording of a speech by Dr. Efstathios William Barootes. See description of Tape S-258a for additional details about the Barootes speech.
Item is a recording of an interview of Colin Martin Lepage by D'Arcy Hande. Details include Lepage's reminiscences about the Lepage family background in Ontario, the move west to Saskatchewan in 1906, homesteading and blacksmithing at Prud'homme, early welding techniques, sports, village politics, and operating a John Deer dealership at Prud'homme.
Item is prececeded on side A by a recording of a speech by Dr. Efstathios William Barootes. See description of Tape S-258a for additional details about the Barootes speech.
Sound recording of an interview with Len R. Blakely of Regina, Saskatchewan conducted by Ed C. Morgan, a staff archivist with the Saskatchewan Archives Board, on February 2, 1970. Blakely discusses his work as a salvage inspector with the Saskatchewan Department of Municipal Affairs; settlement patterns in northern Saskatchewan; Green Lake Metis Settlement; ethnic settlements; operations of the Northern Settlers Re-establishment Branch; the Northern Affairs Branch; and challenges encountered such as medical aid, education, agriculture, social and psychological distress, and the administration of government programs.
Records include sixty photocopied letters, written by Syver Aasberg of the Findlater-Chamberlain, Saskatchewan district to family back home in Norway, between ca.1904 and 1951 of his first-hand accounts of emigrating from Norway to Canada, homesteading and raising a family. Letters were translated to English by Omar Aschim in 2003. Records also include copies of homestead records, family educational certificates, death certificates, family pedigree charts, ancestral farm information, and family photographs, compiled by Aasberg's daughter, Anne Enmark.
Digital copies of a memoir, written by William D. Roberts entitled, "From North Wales by Easy Stages via Virginia, Wisconsin and Saskatchewan, to Victoria, Vancouver Island" and accompanying photographs. Roberts details his experiences while homesteading in the Medstead, Saskatchewan district, serving in the First World War, during his career as a railway mail clerk, and other life experiences from 1896 to 1981, shortly before his death. Photographs depict Roberts in 1915, 1928 and in the 1930s.
Media kit (KT-36) entitled Something of the Past, Part 5, presented by the Saskatchewan Department of Education with co-operation from Photographic Arts; Saskatchewan Archives; Glenbow Foundation, Calgary; Western Development Museum, Saskatoon; Regina Public Library and DREE. The kit consists of four programs: Pioneer Life in Saskatchewan; Progress and Prosperity; The Dirty Thirties; and Trends in Prairie Development. The kit includes filmstrips and booklets and sound recordings to accompany filmstrips. Research and script by Sandra Bingaman. Photographic production by Don Varley and Menno Fieguth.
Media kit (KT-35) entitled Something of the Past, Part 4, presented by the Saskatchewan Department of Education and Saskatchewan Photographic/Art Services in co-operation with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). The kit consists of four programs: Pre-Railway Settlement; The Railway and the People; The Cultural Mosaic; and The Deluge of Settlement. The kit includes filmstrips and booklets and sound recordings to accompany filmstrips. The programs focused on the growth of settlement on the Saskatchewan prairies between 1870 and 1914, with major emphasis on the establishment and growth of cities and on the efforts of various ethnic groups to establish homes on prairie farms.
Research and script: Sandra Bingaman Photographic producer: Don Varley Sketches: Ailean Campbell Producer: Ray Christensen Education consultant: Charles Neumann
Sound recording of the Florence Duckett segment used on the Saskatchewan Stories About Work multimedia web site. Read by Margaret Hopkinson from Florence Duckett's perspective, the recording describes Duckett family settlement in the Biggar, Saskatchewan district in 1906.
This file consists of federal Department of the Interior records related to homestead applications, land grants (letters patent), and/or land use enquiries that are associated with the person or organization (e.g. grantee, patentee) and (where identified) the land location specified in the title of the record description.