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Information about James H. Dickson likely compiled by staff of Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan (at the time known as Saskatchewan Archives Board) from homestead file in the Saskatchewan Archives. [195-?-197-?].

Copy of letter from A. R. Turner, Provincial Archivist, to A. I. Bereskin, Controller of Surveys, Department of Natural Resources, regarding information about James H. Dickson and his history in Saskatchewan, dated June 22, 1965. Date copied June 22, 1965.

Copy of letter from Ruth Dyck Wilson, Staff Archivist, Saskatchewan Archives Board, Regina, Saskatchewan, to Mr. Michael L. King, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, U.S.A., regarding information about the settlement of black persons in Saskatchewan. July 19, 1984. Date copied unknown. [2 copies].

One page of handwritten notes regarding the history of black Canadians in Saskatchewan. Creator of notes unknown, [after 1949].

Photocopy of chapter fourteen from the book entitled Many Trails, by R. D. Symons, Copyright 1963 R. D. Symons, Windjammer edition 1970. Chapter fourteen is entitled Dixie Transplanted, and describes a visit to a black settlement in northern Saskatchewan. Date photocopied unknown. [2 copies].

Articles from various sources regarding immigration and homesteading by black persons in Saskatchewan and Alberta. [after 1946-1972]. Some copies included, date copied unknown.

Copy of article entitled The Creek-Negroes of Oklahoma and Canadian Immigration, 1909-1911, by Harold Martin Troper, The Canadian Historical Review, Vol. LIII No 3 September 1972. Date copied unknown.

Correspondence between Allan R. Turner, Provincial Archivist, Regina, Saskatchewan, and Mr. Robin W. Winks, Department of History, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, regarding the history of black Canadians in Saskatchewan, with particular interest in a settlement near Maidstone, dated July-October, 1959. Letters sent from Turner are copies of originals, copied the same date as the letters were written.

Article entitled How they kept Canada almost lily white: The previously untold story of the Canadian immigration officials who stopped American blacks from coming to Canada, by Trevor W. Sessing, printed in Saturday Night, September 1970.

Items are images showing clearing bush in a forested area of northern Saskatchewan.

Items are photocopies of maps of western Canada (Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba) showing German (Catholic, Lutheran, Mennonite) settlements and population.

Maps reproduced from the publication: The German Canadians, by Heinz Lehmann, (1938) 1985.

Compilation of former pamphlet collections in the Regina office of the Saskatchewan Archives Board.

File 35 contains the publication Farm Life in the Selkirk Colony. Files 14 and 46 relate to mounds and mound builders. File 49.25 includes Wapella Farm Settlement by Cyril Edel Leonoff. Includes article on the life and times of Archbishop Alexandre A. Taché by Maurice Prud'homme (No. 11, 1956, p.4-17). File 13 relates to chinook winds. Files 2, 20, 23, 49.5, 49.10 and 49.26 relate to fur trade.File 49.17 relates to Archibald Dale, a cartoonist with the Winnipeg Free Press. File 30 relates to Crow Wing Trail. Files 3 and 49.12 relate to Alexander Kennedy Isbister.

Includes Exploration Photographer: Humphrey Lloyd Hime and the Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition of 1858, by R. Huyda (Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba Transactions Series III No. 30, 1973-74). No. 27 (1970-71) includes biographical information on William Kennedy (1814-1890).

No. 29, 1972-73, includes an article by Dr. E.C. Shaw entitled The Kennedys - An Unusual Western Family.

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.

Log house on the homestead of Fleetwood and Rotha Cragg at Ditton Park near Aylsham, ca. 1916.

Compilation of former pamphlet and clipping collections in the Regina office of the Saskatchewan Archives Board. Materials promote immigration to Western Canada and describe the country, climate, homestead regulations, etc. for intending immigrants.

Includes publications issued by the Canadian Department of the Interior and the Department of Immigration and Colonization. File 8 includes the publication entitled The Last West. Files 15, 20 and 21 relate to irrigation. Includes records relating to land, land classification and land agents. File 66 includes a photocopy of a document entitled The Esterhaz colony: as it was and is now, 1885-1902.

List of School Lands to be Offered for Sale by Public Auction at Zealandia, Saskatchewan on November 23, 1909. Issued by the Canada Department of the Interior.

Map showing disposition of lands, corrected to Jan. 1, 1911.