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Memoir, photographs of W.D. Roberts

  • TR-283
  • Item
  • 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.

Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba

  • R-1527
  • File
  • 1800-1979

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.

Immigration and Emigration

  • R-1109
  • File
  • ca. 1840 to 1960

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.

Canada. Department of the Interior

  • (S)E 10
  • File
  • 1871-1885

Orders-in-Council concerning Dominion Lands, 1879-1885 (photocopies) and Orders-in-Council, 1871-1877 (printed).

Canada. Department of the Interior. Lands Branch

  • (S)E 12
  • Item
  • 1871-1946

List of files (#1-2429973 with gaps) giving date, file numbers, correspondent and a brief description of the subject. These files are now in the Public Archives of Canada. All files relate to settlement, survey and use of land in the four western provinces and two territories.

Watt, Thomas : NE 10-17-20-W2

This file part consists of federal Department of the Interior records related to homestead applications, land grants (letters patent), and/or land use enquiries that are associated with the person or organization (e.g. grantee, patentee) and (where identified) the land location specified in the title of the record description.

Canada. Dept. of the Interior

Sayer, Harry : E 18-16-08-W2

This file part consists of federal Department of the Interior records related to homestead applications, land grants (letters patent), and/or land use enquiries that are associated with the person or organization (e.g. grantee, patentee) and (where identified) the land location specified in the title of the record description.

Canada. Dept. of the Interior

Robinson, James L. : NW 10-17-09-W2

This file part consists of federal Department of the Interior records related to homestead applications, land grants (letters patent), and/or land use enquiries that are associated with the person or organization (e.g. grantee, patentee) and (where identified) the land location specified in the title of the record description.

Canada. Dept. of the Interior

McDonald, Donald H. : NW 16-13-21-W2

This file part consists of federal Department of the Interior records related to homestead applications, land grants (letters patent), and/or land use enquiries that are associated with the person or organization (e.g. grantee, patentee) and (where identified) the land location specified in the title of the record description.

Canada. Office of the Registrar General of Canada

Clements, Luke : NW 6-14-20-W2

This file part consists of federal Department of the Interior records related to homestead applications, land grants (letters patent), and/or land use enquiries that are associated with the person or organization (e.g. grantee, patentee) and (where identified) the land location specified in the title of the record description.

Canada. Office of the Registrar General of Canada

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