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Documentary: This film documents the 1946 automobile tour by the co-operative members from twelve states. Starting in Superior-Duluth, they travel to Manitoba and Saskatchewan where co-op enterprises are examined along the way. The tour arrives in Regina for the National Convention of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), and meets such persons as Frank Scott, David Lewis, M.J. Goldwell, Sam Watson and T.C. Douglas. Regina scenes include downtown buildings and Saskatchewan Wheat Pool employees on their tennis courts. Also contains scenes of Moose Jaw, Davidson and Saskatoon.

Documentary: This film documents the 1946 automobile tour by the co-operative members from twelve states. Starting in Superior-Duluth, they travel to Manitoba and Saskatchewan where co-op enterprises are examined along the way. The tour arrives in Regina for the National Convention of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), and meets such persons as Frank Scott, David Lewis, M.J. Goldwell, Sam Watson and T.C. Douglas. Regina scenes include downtown buildings and Saskatchewan Wheat Pool employees on their tennis courts. Also contains scenes of Moose Jaw, Davidson and Saskatoon.

Includes: newsclippings, pamphlets, notes for speeches and texts of speeches concerning the Ku Klux Klan, Farmer-labour Group, Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, Conservative Party, Roman Catholic Church, Knights of Columbus, health, education, labour and welfare policies and programs in Saskatchewan and in other parts of Canada; and National Liberal Party pamphlets and newsletters.

This file also includes 29 photographs of the Uhrich family, government events, visits to areas of Saskatchewan, Roman Catholic Church events, KKK fiery cross, and a portrait of Dr. Allan Blair.

John Michael Uhrich (1877-1951) was a physician and a politician.

Collection of student essays from University of Regina classes regarding North-West Territories and Saskatchewan history.

Photocopy of article by W. Ross Thatcher on socialism in Saskatchewan from Nation's Business entitled Where socialism failed close to home: How a Canadian province tested, then rejected, broad welfare state planning.

Newspaper clippings. Includes clippings relating to the Progressive Conservative Party at the national and provincial level and freedom of the press.

Roy Romanow, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) - New Democratic Party (NDP) candidate in the Saskatoon-Riversdale constituency.

Records created, accumulated and used by Olive (Thomas) Wells (1912-2009) of Tuxford, Saskatchewan relating mainly to her teaching career and involvement with the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) in the Tommy Douglas era (1944-1948). Records consist mainly of newspaper clippings; publications; correspondence; CCF delegate ribbons.

Includes political publications as follows: Saskatchewan Grain Growers' Association Convention Resolutions, 1921; CCF Manifesto: Security with Victory, Dominion General Election 1945; Saskatchewan CCF Members' Handbook, August 1952; Saskatchewan Plans for Progress, issued by the Saskatchewan Bureau of Publications, 1945; Calling Canadians Forward: Speeches by CCF Members Delivered in the House of Commons, March 1946; Delegates' Handbook for Eleventh Annual CCF Provincial Convention in Moose Jaw, July 24 to 26, 1946.

Records created, accumulated and used by Douglas H. Bocking of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan as follows:

1) 1980 correspondence between Bocking and Dr. Carlyle King relating to an article on W.G. Brown and the United Reform Movement in Saskatoon in 1938-39 published in Saskatchewan History and King's political activities with the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) in Saskatoon in 1938.

2) Reprints of three articles written by D.H. Bocking and published in Saskatchewan History (Autumn 1960, Spring 1964 and Spring 1965). Article titles are as follows: Premier Walter Scott: His Early Career; Saskatchewan's First Provincial Election; and Political Ambitions and Territorial Affairs, 1900-04.

3) Original and photocopied research materials and correspondence relating to Walter Scott, the first premier of Saskatchewan, and his ancestors. Included is a draft document by D.H. Bocking entitled Who was the Father of Walter Scott, the First Premier of the Province of Saskatchewan?

Photocopied correspondence to and from Msgr. J.H. Prud'homme relating to educational matters, 1924-1930, Treaty No. 6, colonization, 1919-1930, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), 1914-1944, and to the Order of Jacques Cartier, 1930-1933; Codex Historicus of Prince Albert, 1891-1915; Memoire de L'Eveque de St. Albert sur ses difficultés avec le Département Indien, 1909.