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Collection Land settlement
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Historical Ownership Mapping Endeavour (HOME) Maps collection

  • A1393
  • Collection
  • 2005

Collection of maps containing Dominion Land Grant information, including the names, dates and legal land locations of the original land grants issued by the federal Department of the Interior, Dominion Lands Branch from 1871 to 1930 and by the Government of Saskatchewan, Lands Branch since 1930.

Each map includes an alphabetical index by surname.

Not all rural municipalities in Saskatchewan are included in this collection.

Records of Canada Department of the Interior, Dominion Lands Branch

  • Micro. R-2.287 to Micro. R-2.297
  • Collection
  • copied 19--(originally created 1881-1938)

Records of the Dominion Lands Branch of the Canada Department of the Interior relating to land transactions and allocations, etc. for and inspection of land colonization companies, settlement of ethnic groups (Lady Cathcart Scottish crofters, Germans, Mennonites, Hungarians, etc.) and reports on land companies. Includes file nos. 44447 to 5617880. Includes references to Regina townsite; John Lister Kaye; and various land and colonization companies, including (not inclusive) Saskatchewan Land and Colonization Company, Qu'Appelle Land and Colonization Company, Primitive Methodist Colonization Company, York Farmers' Land and Colonization Company; and Qu'Appelle and Long Lake Land Company Limited.

File 53834 includes a memoranda regarding the history of crofter settlement under patronage of Lady Gordon Cathcart.

Records of the Immigration Branch

  • Micro. R-2.483 to Micro. R-2.506; Micro. R-2.514 to Micro. R-2.561; Micro. R-2.586 to Micro. R-2.661
  • Collection
  • copied 19--(originally created 1873-1953)

Microfilm copy of records of the Immigration Branch (Public Archives of Canada, Record Group 76). The Immigration Branch was part of several different federal government departments, including the Canada Department of Agriculture; Department of the Interior; Department of Immigration and Colonization; Department of Mines and Resources; and Department of Citizenship and Immigration.

Records of the Canada Department of the Interior, Dominion Lands Branch

  • Micro. R-5.11
  • Collection
  • copied 19--(originally created 1885-1906)

Records of the Dominion Lands Branch of the Canada Department of the Interior consisting of land records and claims of Métis and Original White Settlers (National Archives Diffusion Program, Record Group 15). Indexes included.

Relief records of the Government of Saskatchewan

  • Micro. R-6.1 to Micro. R-6.50
  • Collection
  • 1886-1941

Records created, accumulated and used by various departments of the Government of Saskatchewan relating to the provision of relief.

Micro. R-6.1 to Micro. R-6.29: Records created, accumulated and used by the Saskatchewan Department of Highways and the Saskatchewan Department of Agriculture, including the Grain and Fodder Division and the Land Utilization Branch. Includes records relating to the movement of settlers.

Micro. R-6.30 to Micro. R-6.40: Relief records created, accumulated and used by the Saskatchewan Bureau of Labour and Industries and Saskatchewan Bureau of Labour and Public Welfare including legislation; correspondence; newspaper clippings; statistics; reports; and correspondence with cities and rural municipalities. 1931-1941.

Micro. R-6.41 to Micro. R-6.50: Relief records of the Saskatchewan Department of Highways, including highways maintenance files and miscellaneous maintenance files.