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History of the Acton family compiled by Donald Acton. History focuses mainly on the Richard Arthur Acton and Annie Bell (McKinnon) Acton and their eight children: Janet Elizabeth (Beth); Samuel Murray; Duncan Robert; Elinor Mae; Doris Annabelle; Richard Keith; Donald Findlay; and Clifford John. Includes information and photographs relating to a two-storey stone house built in 1908 on Samuel Acton's homestead near Wolseley, Saskatchewan.

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.

Publication entitled "My dear wife and sweetheart": Letters from John Henry Duckett to his wife Florence from Saskatchewan during 1904-1905, edited by Floredeth Rede Widstrand and published by Digamma Books, Ottawa, Ontario. The publication includes genealogical information on the family and copies of letters written while Duckett, a lace designer born in 1870 in England, was preparing the family's homestead at Little Eagle Creek, near Saskatoon.

Includes copies of Duckett's original letters from 1904 and 1905, along with various notes regarding their transcription.

Illustrated history of the Standen and McQueen families compiled and published by S. Dale Standen. Two generations of both families resided in the Kindersley, Viscount, Hanley and Yorkton, Saskatchewan districts. Includes information on Sydney (Sid) Helmer Standen and his wife, Effie Standen (née Euphemia Young McQueen), parents of S. Dale Standen.

Volume One (1941-1954) and Volume Two (1955-1977) of the diaries of Nore Jons Johnson compiled by his nephews, Jim and Andy Blomquist. Johnson (1906-1988) farmed in the Choiceland, Saskatchewan district. He cut wood, trapped, fished and resided on the Torch River for many years.

Item component is an article by Graham A. MacDonald that appears in volume 63, issue 1 of Saskatchewan History beginning on page 32.

Item component is an article by Jonathan Kalmakoff that appears in volume 63, issue 1 of Saskatchewan History beginning on page 9.

Item component is an article by Jonathan Anuik that appears in volume 62, issue 1 of Saskatchewan History beginning on page 22.

Item component is an article by Bruce Dawson that appears in volume 60, issue 2 of Saskatchewan History beginning on page 40.

Item component is an article by Jonathan Kalmakoff that appears in volume 59, issue 2 of Saskatchewan History beginning on page 28.