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Pioneer Questionnaires collection

  • (S)X 2
  • Fondo
  • 1905, 1953-1971 (predominant: 1953-1956)

Collection consists of responses received by the Saskatchewan Archives following their distribution of a series of ten questionnaires to early settlers of the province, in particular those who lived in Western Canada prior to 1914. Each questionnaire focused on one of the following particular subjects: pioneer diet; general pioneer experience; schools; churches; recreation and social life; farming experiences; folklore; health; housing; and local government. The collection also includes responses to an eleventh questionnaire on Christmas that formed part of the material gathered by the Archives for a radio program and that was sent to selective respondents of the folklore questionnaire.

Questionnaire number 1 on nutrition was organized into sections on: flour and other grain products; sugars and syrups; dairy products; meat and fish; beverages; vegetables and dried fruits; canning and preserving; baking; water supply; soaps; fuels; methods of cooking and types of utensils; and wrappings and containers.

Questionnaire number 2 on pioneer experiences included questions on: places lived; income; family relations; travel; commerce; "firsts"; sources of place names; availability of historical source materials; and important changes since their arrival.

Questionnaire number 3 on schools was organized into sections on: personal experiences of early school activity; building and equipment; organization and administration; school attendance; classroom activities; school health conditions; school grounds, games and entertainment; district social life; general.

Questionnaire number 4 on churches included questions on: religious services attended; location of services; buildings used; music and choirs; organizations; youth services; activities and special events (e.g. picnics, suppers, fund raisers); administration and financial support; membership; records available; and special features.

Questionnaire number 5 on recreation and social life was organized into sections on: neighbourly visiting, parties, etc.; organizations and meetings; children's games; picnics and sports; reading; musical entertainment; hobbies and special interests; and general.

Questionnaire number 6 on farming experiences included questions on: dates, locations, and acquisition details of land; financing; machinery; crops, livestock and other commodities; co-operative societies; hazards and difficulties (e.g. pests, weather); harvesting and secondary production activities; exhibitions and fairs; gardening; and interactions with North West Mounted Police.

Questionnaire number 7 on folklore was organized into sections on: introductory information; settlement - the land (location, man-made features; associated stories and jokes), climate (tales/believe about weather phenomenon; associated animal behaviour), celestial bodies (associated stores/beliefs), supernatural beings (stories of ghosts/fairies/strange beings), human beings (anecdotes on individuals who performed unusual deeds), animals; supporting oneself after settlement (how were skills developed; household help); family or group gatherings in the pioneer community (storytelling, singing, jokes); life cycle in the pioneer community - childhood (naming; birthdays; songs, rhymes and stories; superstitions), marriage (accessories; good and bad luck), death (foreshadowing; ceremonies); good and bad luck (signs; attracting/avoiding); and proverbs and proverbial phrases.

Questionnaire number 8 on health was organized into sections on: services of a doctor (e.g. distance; competency; visitation; charges and payment); hospital services (e.g. distance; organization; visitiation; births); home remedies (e.g. associated illnesses and treatments; sources; treatment of serious accidents; aids for the handicapped); public health problems (e.g. vaccinations; epidemics); dental services (e.g. distance; visitation; treatments and services); and general (e.g. prevention; steps taken by the community for improvements).

Questionnaire number 9 on housing was organized into sections on: temporary structures (e.g. sod or log houses; even if the family lived in the building for many years); permanent structures (e.g. including the "better" house built after living for a time in quarters mentioned in temporary structures, a permanent home built upon arrival, or the "homestead shack" that may have been added to and continued as a permanent house); and general (e.g. winterizing; additions; animals/pets; furnishings; windows and ventilation; windbreaks; fire protection and emergency measures/features).

Questionnaire number 10 on local government was organized into sections on: statute labour districts and local improvement districts before 1908; township local improvement districts and rural municipalities after 1908; villages; and towns and cities.

Questionnaire on Christmas included suggested questions on: preparations; foods; guests; gifts; songs; correspondence; impact of weather; amusements; changes over time.

Saskatchewan Archives Board

Land

  • Pamphlet File - Land
  • Unidad documental compuesta
  • 1883-2002

The Regina District and the Lands of the Provident and Commercial Land Co. Limited: A Glance at the Greatest Wheat Producing Lands Within the Fertile Belt of the North-West. Issued by the Provident and Commercial Land Company Ltd., 1883. 18 p.

Federal Land Settlement: A Brief Outline of the More Important Features of a Proposed Constructive Federal Land Settlement Policy, Prepared by the Land Settlement Committee of the Association of Dominion Land Surveyors. Presented to and Approved by the Association at their Annual Meeting, February 4, 1921.

Word Pictures of the Land in Townships Along the Line of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway: Reports of Government Land Surveyors for use in connection with Homestead and Purchase Land Pamphlets of the Railway. Section West of 4th and 5th Meridian, Pamphlet L5 issued by the General Passenger Department, Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. [19-?] 47 p.

8,000 Free Homesteads in 1911 Along the Lines of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway in the Most Fertile Section of Western Canada: List of Vacant Lands, Map and Homestead Regulations issued by the General Passenger Department of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company. Pamphlet L1, April 17, 1911.

Our Territorial Lands: A Brief Statement of the Case for Provincial Control of the Crown Domain. An address delivered before the Young Men's Liberal Club of Calgary by Charles A. Stuart of Osgoode Hall, Toronto. 11 p. [19-?]

Canada Land Inventory Index issued by the federal Department of Regional Economic Expansion. August, 1969. Index relates to forestry, recreation, agriculture, wildlife-ungulates and wildlife-waterfowl.

Revised and enlarged edition of publication entitled Understanding Western Canada's Dominion Land Survey System, written by Robert B. McKercher and Bertram Wolfe and published by University Extension Press, Extension Division, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, August 1986.

Third printing of publication entitled Back to the Land: A Genealogical Guide to Finding Farms on the Canadian Prairies, including an index to townships in the 1901 Census, compiled and published by Dave Obee (David Brian Obee), February 2002. (26 p.)

Swift Current (Town Plan)

  • A786
  • Unidad documental simple
  • 1907

McVittie, Archibald Westmacott, 1858-1926

German Settlements and Population

  • A48
  • Unidad documental simple
  • 1938

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.

Memoir, photographs of W.D. Roberts

  • TR-283
  • Unidad documental simple
  • 1915-193?, 1981 [digitized 2015]

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.

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