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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.

Saskatchewan Historical Society fonds

  • F 635
  • Fonds
  • 1845-1945

This fonds consists of records created, accumulated and used mainly by the secretary of the Saskatchewan Historical Society during its operation in Regina, Saskatchewan. The fonds contains the administrative records of the Society along with the records relating to the history of the province from the mid 19th century to 1945 compiled and collected by the Society in fulfillment of its mandate.

The types of records included are secretary's annual reports; correspondence; minutes; financial statements; a constitution; an annual meeting programme; newspaper clippings; personal narratives; essays; obituaries; biographical sketches; photographs; articles and speeches.

No series assignment was applied to the records in this fonds.

See SHS 97 for a letter regarding the massacre of Blackfoot and Blood Indians by Crees (Red Ochre Hills massacre) and an article by C. Wetton regarding Fine Day, Cree warrior. See SHS 94 for a letter and note regarding a table in the Saskatchewan Legislative Library known as the confederation table. See SHS 129 for correspondence regarding Indians serving in World War II and an Indian gathering on Assiniboin Reserve, September 9, 1941, to dedicate themselves to war services, enfranchisement of Indians, etc. See SHS 159 for document written by Neil Brodie entitled Twelve Days with the Indians, May 14 to May 26, 1885, regarding his experiences in Poundmaker's camp during the rebellion of 1885. See SHS 150 for the 1935 report of the Royal Commission on the Natural Resources of Saskatchewan.

Saskatchewan Historical Society, 1936-1951

Red River Settlement

  • Pamphlet File - Red River Settlement
  • File
  • 1849-1970

Pamphlet entitled, Review of the Claims of "The Pioneers of Rupert's Land", 1836 to 1870. Prepared and issued by the Executive Committee, Pioneers of Rupert's Land, Winnipeg, March 20, 1914. 14 p.

Programme for the Centenary Pilgrimage To The Churches of the Red River Valley, October 14, 1920; being the hundredth anniversary of the arrival of the Reverend John West, the first Anglican missionary to the Red River settlement. (2 copies)

Pamphlet entitled, Red River's Festive Season, by Margaret Arnett MacLeod. October, 1962. Published at Winnipeg, Manitoba. 18 p.

Booklet on Saint Boniface, Manitoba in celebration of their 150th Anniversary, 1968. Includes information on Joseph Norbert Provencher (1787-1853) and Alexandre Antonin Taché.

Huson's Bay Company (Red River Settlement) Return to an Address of The Honourable the House of Commons, date February 9, 1849. 115 p. (original and photocopy)

Volume 100, No. 1, Centennial Edition of The Nor'-Wester, Winnipeg, July 15, 1970. Includes information on the North-West Rebellion, 1885.

McNeil Family

  • R-1520
  • File
  • 1859-1976

Original and photocopied records including correspondence, publications and photographs. Includes information on home remedies and Saskatchewan Co-operative Elevator Company, Rainton Local No. 94 (file 19). Includes map of Europe entitled War Map, 1915, issued compliments of The Dick + Walker Co. and copyrighted by H. Adelbert MacDonald; and two maps of the Dominion of Canada, 1912 and 1914, issued by the Canada Department of the Interior showing railways, distances, construction etc. with references to the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, the Canadian Pacific Railway, the Canadian Government Railways, and the Canadian Northern System. Includes McNeil family photographs and portraits of James, Fred and Charles McNeil.

Lane, Grace

  • R-809
  • File
  • 1864-1984

Correspondence and memoranda relating to a variety of topics which include co-operatives, credit unions, homes for the handicapped, Regina and Saskatoon associations for the mentally retarded, United Church of Canada; diary of Gavin Middleton of Carnduff, Saskatchewan, 1882-1884; Sixty Years of CGIT, 1915-1975; correspondence regarding Grace Lane's book, Sturdy Strands of Faith; photographs; and an undated map of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan issued by the Moose Jaw Chamber of Commerce showing streets and points of interest, etc.

Vogelsang, Roland

  • R-422
  • File
  • 1870-1970

Includes: "Nichtagrarische Pionierseidlungen in Kanada Untersuchungen zu einem Siedlungstyp, Dargestellt an Beispielen aus Mittel - und Nordsaskatchewan," by Dr. Roland Vogelsang, 1980, 393 p.; and published edition: "Nichtagrarische Pionierseiglungen in Kanada Untersuchungen zu einem Siedlungstyp an Beispielen aus Mittel - und Norsaskatchewan", 1980, 294 p. (Translation of title: Non-agrarian pioneer settlements in Canada: Research into settlement type from examples from middle and northern Saskatchewan).

Roland Vogelsang is a professor.

Smith, Christian

  • R-398
  • File
  • 1870-1973

Includes speeches, articles, radio addresses, notes, press clippings and pamphlets relating chiefly to developments in health services in Saskatchewan and in other areas of the world, and to other aspects of Saskatchewan's history.

Christian Smith (1900-1977) was a journalist and a civil servant.

File nos. 7 and 8 contain articles by and biographical information concerning Dr. Robert George Ferguson. File number 9 includes the experiences of the Smith family in Manitoba and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. File number 9 includes a series of articles on the psychiatric hospital in Battleford published in the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix in October 1937. File 9 also includes a biographical sketch of R.D. Roberts. File 5 includes an article on Leask, Saskatchewan by Mrs. A. Webb. File 9 relates to the experiences of the Smith family, a Dutch family, in Manitoba and Saskatoon. File no. 3 includes a biographical sketch of Henry Joseph Schmitt. File 7 includes a biographical sketch of Maurice MacDonald Seymour. File no. 5 includes an article on Skipton Post Office by Mrs. A. Webb. File 7 includes an article by Reginald Oliver Davison on the history of public health in Saskatchewan reprinted from The Canadian Public Health Journal, December 1935. File no. 8 includes biographical information on James Walter McNeill.

Lee, Oscar Amandus : SE 18-33-04-W2

  • S 42.091942A
  • File
  • 1872 - 1930

This file 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

Anstett, Frank Anthony : NE 12-35-21-W2

This file 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

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