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Mrs. McNaughton (1879-1968) was the first president of the Women's Grain Growers Association and served for many years as women's editor of the Western Producer. Her records include personal and family correspondence; correspondence related to her work and interests; pamphlets and photographs.
Farm account journals of Lew W. Elliott (1886-1971) of Flaxcombe, 1901-1967, including lists of expenditures and wages for hired men. Journal by L.W. Elliott, 1930, while foreman of construction of Highway No. 7 from Flaxcombe east; also includes farm fuel records for the farms of L.W. Elliott, his son, Frank and Sheldon, and his son-in-law, E.J. McCullough.
Typewritten document entitled The History of John Cowell. Cowell was a pioneer of the Jansen and Mullingar districts; and photographs mainly of the Cowell family.
Edward Alexander Partridge was active in early farm movements. These records consist of two letters written by Ben Lloyd to E.A. Partridge, February and April, 1927 and one letter written by Mr. Lloyd to Miss E. Partridge, 1928. A copy of Partridge's book entitled A War on Poverty is included.
Three copies of the unpublished memoirs of J.D. MacFarlane (1892-1982) of Nipawin, Saskatchewan. He homesteaded in the Aylsham district and served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan (MLA) from 1934 to 1938.
Revised copy of a document entitled Peat Bogs of Northern Saskatchewan, written by Don MacPhedran of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. The document relates to the large land reclamation by farmers in northern Saskatchewan in the 1930s, 1940s and early 1950s and includes details on settlement of land covered in peat bogs, peat fires, and techniques such as burning peat, growing sweet clover, and introducing leaf cutter bees to improve the soil.
Copies of published reminiscences of Anna Tordon, who describes her family's experiences homesteading at Burgis, Saskatchewan and her own experiences as a farmer's wife in the Preeceville area.