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Item is a recording of an interview of Colin Martin Lepage by D'Arcy Hande. Details include Lepage's reminiscences about the Lepage family background in Ontario, the move west to Saskatchewan in 1906, homesteading and blacksmithing at Prud'homme, early welding techniques, sports, village politics, and operating a John Deer dealership at Prud'homme.
Recording continues for approximately 10 seconds onto side B and is followed by a recording of a speech by Dr. Efstathios William Barootes. See description of Tape S-258a for additional details about the Barootes speech.
Item is a recording of an interview of Colin Martin Lepage by D'Arcy Hande. Details include Lepage's reminiscences about the Lepage family background in Ontario, the move west to Saskatchewan in 1906, homesteading and blacksmithing at Prud'homme, early welding techniques, sports, village politics, and operating a John Deer dealership at Prud'homme.
Item is prececeded on side A by a recording of a speech by Dr. Efstathios William Barootes. See description of Tape S-258a for additional details about the Barootes speech.
Sound recording of an interview with Len R. Blakely of Regina, Saskatchewan conducted by Ed C. Morgan, a staff archivist with the Saskatchewan Archives Board, on February 2, 1970. Blakely discusses his work as a salvage inspector with the Saskatchewan Department of Municipal Affairs; settlement patterns in northern Saskatchewan; Green Lake Metis Settlement; ethnic settlements; operations of the Northern Settlers Re-establishment Branch; the Northern Affairs Branch; and challenges encountered such as medical aid, education, agriculture, social and psychological distress, and the administration of government programs.
Records include sixty photocopied letters, written by Syver Aasberg of the Findlater-Chamberlain, Saskatchewan district to family back home in Norway, between ca.1904 and 1951 of his first-hand accounts of emigrating from Norway to Canada, homesteading and raising a family. Letters were translated to English by Omar Aschim in 2003. Records also include copies of homestead records, family educational certificates, death certificates, family pedigree charts, ancestral farm information, and family photographs, compiled by Aasberg's daughter, Anne Enmark.
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.
Copy of letter from the Saskatchewan Archives Board to R. Bodey of Kindersley, Saskatchewan containing general information on South African scrip; soldier grants; Metis scrip; pre-emptions and purchased homesteads.
Letter written by Mr. W.E. Rusling, Shand Creek P.O. Saskatchewan to Reverend Myline, East Meon. Vic. Petersfield, regarding the Porcupine Soldier Settlement area, in northern Saskatchewan.
James Alexander Munro Johnstone family tree and pages from William Ferguson Munro family tree, compiled by Barbara Joan Munro; copies of homestead records; notes on Johnstone family by Barbara Joan Munro; inventory of private collection of B. Joan Munro; explanatory letter dated July 10, 1995.
How to Settle on the Prairie, by W.F. Munro, ca. 1900,9 p.; typewritten document entitled, Johnstones pre-1900.
Three letters addressed to John S. Mackay of Lovat, Nova Scotia in response to inquiries by members of the family when they were considering moving from Nova Scotia to Saskatchewan. Letters were written at Coleville, Ashford and Viewfair, Saskatchewan.
Photocopied deed of land that is dated April 11, 1883 and issued to Regina Mary Rowell of Regina, North-West Territories, by Richard B Angus, et al. for lot number twenty-three in block number two hundred eighty-two in the town site of Regina.
Correspondence written by Regina Mary (Rowell) Craig of Fiske, Saskatchewan to Mrs. Austin Bothwell of Regina, dated August 18, 1932, concerning the deed of land issued in her name in 1883 and her claim that the City of Regina revoked the deed. Correspondence with similar content was also written on June 8, 1953 by Craig (then of New Westminster, British Columbia) to a Mrs. Robson.