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Letter from Dr. Lewis Thomas, Provincial Archivist, to Mr. W. E. Simmons, C.N.R. Telegraphs, Regina, Saskatchewan regarding rail and telegraph mileage in Saskatchewan in 1905, dated December 22, 1954. Includes map of railway lines in Saskatchewan at the end of 1905.

Newspaper clippings from various sources on the subject of railways. 1903-1960. Includes article by Alan Longstaff entitled Colonist car adventure [from Regina to Saskatoon over snowed-in line], 1943.

Interview: Mr. Lang talks about his ideas on why the government should expropriate land and railines from the Canadian Pacific and Canadian National Railways.

News: (1) Mr. Langlois on a board of reference proposed by the Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation. (2) Shots of the Canadian National Railway cars being moved in the yards at Saskatoon (silent). (3) Mr. MacKinnon on medical research and treatment a University Hospital. (4) Glen Penner on improving the city transit service to Montgomery Place. (5) Peter Zakreski, Glen Penner and Jim Beveridge in city council meeting discuss solutions to Saskatoon's landfill problems. (6) George Taylor, Owewn Mann, and Glen Penner on city street lighting.(7) Don Junor on Montgomery Place. (8) Cliff Wright on unidentified construction project. (9) Owen Mann and Alex Sojonky in city council meeting on city transit union contract negotiations.

Agricultural film: Scene of a train travelling along a track.

Indicates railways, rural municipalities and unorganized units. Twps. 1-67. Corrected.

Indicates electoral districts (Saskatchewan), municipality boundaries and railways. Twps. 1-75. Corrected.

Shows municipal boundaries, and local improvement districts, and railways to Jan. 1, 1912. Twp. 1-75. Corrected.

Map showing judicial districts, land registration districts, municipalities, townships and sections, cities, villages, post offices and stations, railway lines with distances between stations. The back of the map has an index of Saskatchewan including population figures in accordance with the Official Census of 1911 and an official estimate of population in 1919.

Statistical information compiled by Paradise Hill Farmers Development Association.

Books of reference created by Canadian National Railway staff that accompanied Canada Department of Interior location survey plans for lands required for railway purposes. Includes information pertaining to: station distances; widths of right of ways; land owners and occupants; land locations and acreage distances. Within the file are books of reference for: 1) Townships 49 to 46, Ranges 26 to 28 W2 and 1 to 6 W3 (Dept. of Interior plan 15276, 1909); 2) Township 5, Ranges 7 to 11 W2 (plan 15649, 1909); and 3) Townships 49-50 and Ranges 3 to 4 W3, and Unsubdivided Townships 50 to 56, Ranges 5 to 7 W3 (plan 15890, 1910).