Showing 124 results

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

This series consists of homestead records created, accumulated and used by the federal Department of the Interior, Dominion Lands Administration between 1872 and 1930. Each file pertains to a specific parcel of land (typically a quarter section or portion thereof) available for settlement under the provisions of the Dominion Lands Act, 1872 (An Act respecting the Public Lands of the Dominion, S.C. 1872, c. 23). A file usually covers the period from date of entry until grant of patent, at which time file was closed. Files contain information pertaining to various types of land grants including homesteads; pre-emptions; scrip grants to North West Métis entrants and to South African volunteers; grants to soldiers of the Great War; and homesteads on First Nations reserves. The fonds also includes: applications for Letters Patent that were separated from certain original homestead files and filed independently; and administrative records regarding the management of lands designated for schools.

The types of records included are applications for entry and for patent; land condition and valuation reports; land transfer documents; sale deeds and receipts; notarial certificates; naturalization documents; cattle grazing and haying permits; soldier land settlements; maps; and correspondence.

To facilitate access to the records in this series via the Threshold description tree, the series has been arranged into sub-series, sub-sub-series and file parts.

Samples of Red River Rebellion Military Bounty Land Warrants, North-West Mounted Police Warrants, North-West Rebellion Military Bounty Warrants and Land Certificates, Half Breed Scrip Certificates and Land Certificates of the Canada Homestead Settlement Co. Ltd., and the Free Homestead Company Ltd.

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.

North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) memo regarding Fort Pelly Indians; memos dated May 5, 1876 and January 7, 1876 and letters from Swan River, August 12, 1876 and June 21, 1875 regarding articles to be supplied. Records were loaned for copying by Cliff Shaw of Yorkton, Saskatchewan and filmed in April 1952.

Half-breed lands assignment, no. 1287, July 19, 1877, Theresa Martin to J.M. House; and discharge of mortgage, Joshua M. House to George Blight, May 29, 1890.

Prize list for the Rothbury and Logberg Agricultural Show, 1895.

Printed letter issued by S.G. Fisher on March 7, 1896 to prospective suppliers of cream concerning operations of the creamery at Saltcoats, Saskatchewan.

Pamphlet entitled A Few Facts regarding Saltcoats District for Home Seekers, issued by the Saltcoats Board of Trade. 1900?.

Report of the Superintendent of Highways on Highway Improvement, issued by the Saskatchewan Department of Public Works, Highways Branch, 1907. 45 p.

Address of thanks by Cabinet to the Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan, William J. Patterson, for the Speech from the Throne, with signatures. 1953.