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This fonds consists of records created, accumulated and used by the William Pearson Company, Ltd. in their activities buying, selling, and advertising land in the Last Mountain Valley, Saskatchewan area.

The types of records included are: correspondence of Wm. Pearson Co. Ltd. and its successor, Pearson & Son, Ltd.; land examination and crop reports from 1909-1913 (T20-30 R24-25 W2; T21-28 R26-27 W2), 1925 (T7-30 R24-26 W2), 1929 (T20-30 R24-26 W2; T38-39 R4-9 W2), and 1934 (T20-30 R14-26 W2), including its successor, Middle West Land Co. (Manitoba); promotional brochures, pamphlets, booklets, and hand-coloured glass lantern slide transparencies which were taken on excursions in the Last Mountain Valley area; a lantern slide projector; maps of the land holdings and sales of Wm. Pearson Co. Ltd.; a mimeographed copy of memoirs written by William Pearson; and a photograph of the Strassbourg rail station.

No series assignment has been applied to the records in this fonds.

William Pearson Land Company dock facilities at Last Mountain Lake.

Hand-coloured lantern slide taken during William Pearson Co. Ltd. excursions to the Last Mountain Valley, Saskatchewan area. Image shows landseekers sitting in front of a house.

The Wiliam Pearson Land Company Driving Outfits, several horse-drawn buggies on a Lumsden street.

Hand-coloured lantern slides to promote William Pearson Co. Ltd. excursions to Last Mountain Valley, Saskatchewan area. Images are portraits, including (1)-(2) William Pearson.

Hand-coloured lantern slides taken during William Pearson Co. Ltd. excursions to Last Mountain Valley, Saskatchewan area. Images are of the Valeport, Saskatchewan properties of the Wm. Pearson Co. Ltd., including (1) the Valeport bridge, (2)-(3) the Summer Resort Pavillion, (4) the Lake Ridings Ranch building, and (5)-(7) a large Wm. Pearson Co. Ltd. Props building with garden.

Hand-coloured lantern slides taken during William Pearson Co. Ltd. excursions to the Last Mountain Valley, Saskatchewan area. Images are (1) a group of unidentified men standing by a lake, (2) men holding rhubarb, (3) four men sitting on rocks, (4) two men walking (possibly at the Pearson Valeport Properties), and (5) a man in a coat and hat.

Hand-coloured lantern slides likely taken during William Pearson Co. Ltd. excursions to the Last Mountain Valley, Saskatchewan area. Image is of students and a priest possibly in front of an Indian Residential School.

Hand-coloured lantern slide taken during William Pearson Co. Ltd. excursions to the Last Mountain Valley, Saskatchewan area. Image is of four grain elevators at Holdfast, Saskatchewan with the note that "over 400,000 shipped last year from this point."

Hand-coloured lantern slide taken during William Pearson Co. Ltd. excursions to the Last Mountain Valley, Saskatchewan area. The composite image shows the lobby and dining room of the Arlington Beach Hotel, Last Mountain Lake.