Historical trailers: Consists of a series of eight 1 minute vignettes related to different Saskatchewan places or historical events:

(1) Looks at the Legislative Building in Regina. Includes interior and exterior shots of the building and scenes of the opening of the legislative session with the Lieutenant Governor in attendance.
(2) Looks at the Saskatchewan Museum of Natural History (now Royal Saskatchewan Museum) building in Regina. Includes exterior and interior shots of the building and of the dioramas depicting the wildlife of Saskatchewan.
(3) Contemporary black and white film footage of men operating old steam powered threshing machinery and women providing meals to the men. Includes shots of a modern self-propelled combine operating in a farm field.
(4) Shots of a church, constructed of field stone at the turn of the century, at Dilke, Saskatchewan. Includes exterior and interior shots of the church.
(5) Looks at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) barracks at Regina. The site has served as the Force's main training base since 1882. Includes scenes of the grounds, the little chapel and the museum.
(6) Highlights a log structure at Fort Qu'Appelle that was part of the Hudson Bay post built in 1864. The building is a designated national historic site and is open as a museum.
(7) Looks at the potash deposits in the province and their importance to the province's economy. Includes exterior and interior shots of a potash mine.
(8) Highlights the Qu'Appelle Valley as a place for water sports and other recreational activities.

Aerial views of southern Saskatchewan geological formations which can be identified by the Saskatchewan Research Council. 01: Looking southeast at Cactus Hills. 02: East along Ardill End Moraine. 03: East at Rockglen melt water channel. 04: North at ablation moraine. 05: Southeast along Rockglen channel. 06: Into melt water channel. 07: Ardill End Moraine. 08: South of contorted ridges of bedrock, in the Dirt Hills. 09: Near Fife Lake. 10: Erosion near Lisieux. 11: South of Claybank, looking southwest. 12: Looking west at Dirt Hills. 13 and 32: East along south wall of Big Muddy Valley. 14: Erosion remnants north of Rockglen. 15: East along contorted ridge of the Dirt Hills. 16 to 17: North along road to Spring Valley. 18: North of partially filled melt water channel. 19: Escarpment of unglaciated Wood Mountain Upland. 20: Alluvial fans and recent lake sediments. 21 to 22: Knob and kettle topography on Missouri Coteau Upland. 23: Looking south of Big Muddy Lake. 24: Graded slopes and erosion remnants, southeast of Rockglen. 25: Ablation moraine on the Dirt Hills. 26 to 27: South of Claybank, looking west. 28: Alluvial fans, east of Avonlea Creek. 29: Erosion surfaces and melt water channels southeast of Big Beaver. 30: Erosion surfaces and remnants near Canadian border. 31: Pediment surfaces, south wall of Big Muddy Valley. 33 to 34, 49 to 50: Condie Moraine. 35 to 36, 42, 47 to 48: Buffalo Pound Lake. 37, 40, 46: Arm River Valley. 38, 45: Wascana Creek. 39: Slumping, Qu’Appelle Valley. 41: Moose Jaw Creek Valley. 43: Slumping, east bank of Moose Jaw Creek. 44: Cottonwood Creek. 51: Landslide east of Lumsden.

Agricultural film: (1) Scene of cattle grazing on a pasture. (2) Scene of Canal Church (St. John's) Anglican Church in the Qu'Appelle Valley.

File consists of the response by Miss Sarah K. Binnie to the Saskatchewan Archives' questionnaire pertaining to general pioneer experiences about her father Francis (Frank) Binnie. Archives staff recorded that the respondent indicated on the questionnaire that they or their family came to Saskatchewan and/or the Canadian prairies in 1882.

Questionnaire number 2 on pioneer experiences included questions on: places lived; income; family relations; travel; commerce; "firsts"; sources of place names; availability of historical source materials; and important changes since their arrival.

Copy of article on John (Jack) Leader, a homesteader in the Qu'Appelle Valley and member of the North-West Mounted Police. Leader died in 1941 at the age of 84. Source possibly the Fort Qu'Appelle Times newspaper.

Article by James McCook entitled Charles Pratt was a model of a good man. Published in The Leader-Post, Regina. 1972?.

Article regarding a plaque commemorating Charles Pratt, a missionary who worked in the Gordon's Reserve area. The Qu'Appelle Crusader, December 1961.

Typewritten copy of the journals of Charles Pratt, a native catechist of the Church Missionary Society (Anglican) in the Hudson's Bay Company territory dating from 1851 to 1860. Journals copied from the microfilm of the Church Missionary Society records in the Public Archives of Canada, possibly by A.R. Turner in November 1959.

Item is a photocopy of a map showing the railways, trails, and telegraph lines used in the Riel Rebellion of 1885 for the districts of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Keewatin, Assiniboia, and Manitoba, along with parts of Montana and North Dakota. Along top edge of sheet are illustrations of: Qu'Appelle Valley; Sir John A. MacDonald; and Medicine Hat (showing bridge crossing over South Saskatchewan River); along bottom edge of sheet are illustrations of: Kopiassiswean (alternately known as Koriassiswean or Bird Skin) based on photograph taken near Calgary in 1884; Major General Sir Frederick Dobson Middleton; crossed rifles with bayonets; "Savage Indian Warfare" - a depiction of a First Nations' warrior standing over a prone figure with a raised arm; Louis Riel; crossed tomahawk and Indian pipe; and Ne-Raip-A-Shaw.

Boats and people at Katepwa Lake in the Qu'Appelle Valley.

Boats docked and people on pier at Katepwa Lake in the Qu'Appelle Valley.

Preliminary reports of the federal Department of Mines, Bureau of Economic Geology entitled: Ground-Water Resources of the Rural Municipality of Glen Bain No. 105 Saskatchewan, prepared by B.R. MacKay, H.H. Beach, and E.L. Ruggles (1936, 44 p.); and Ground-Water Resources of the Rural Municipality of North Qu'Appelle No. 187 Saskatchewan, prepared by B.R. MacKay, H.N. Hainstock and G.L. Scott (1936, 40 p.).