Records created and accumulated by the Dominion Department of the Interior pertaining to Fort Livingstone, located near Pelly, Saskatchewan. Records refer to the role of the Fort as the first capital of the North-West Territories government and home of its Lieutenant-Governor, David Laird (1876-1877), and the site of the first North-West Mounted Police barracks and headquarters (1874). Includes a hand-drawn map, depicting the site as used by the North-West Mounted Police. Also includes a plan of Township 34, Range 32, West of the 2nd Meridian, as surveyed by the Department of the Interior in 1899 and 1900.

Reminiscences and manuscripts written by former North-West Mounted Police (N.W.M.P.) Sergent-Major Frank Wyman Spicer. Includes his reminiscences of the N.W.M.P. and his interactions with various Blackfoot leaders.

Clipping of article entitled, John G. Oliver, Western Pioneer, written by Efiie L. Storer and published in The Saskatchewan Farmer. Article profiles John Graves (Jack) Oliver of Ingersoll, Ontario, and his travels west in his role as engineer and foreman of a crew tasked with the construction of a North-West Mounted Police barracks at Battleford in the summer of 1874.

Publications: In The Footsteps of Thomas Blakiston - 1858 (56 p.); 1874 Trek, Hamilton Junior High, Lethbridge, Alberta (50 p.); Historic Trails: 1874 N.W.M.P. Trek, Hamilton Junior High School (66 p.); as well as a promotional pamphlet for the Historic Trails Society.

Item is a mounted image from the southern Alberta badlands showing a First Nations person standing beside a horse, next to two men (possibly Northwest Mounted Police [NWMP] officers) on horses (one in profile, one shown from the rear). Scrub plant growth is in foreground of image and rocky outcrops (hoodoos) in background.

Image appeared in Canadian Illustrated News, May 22, 1875 (volume XI, number 21, p. 324).

Recollections of Alfred Stewart of Regina, Saskatchewan, and formerly of the Royal North-West Mounted Police (N.W.M.P.) about the 1885 North-West Rebellion. Includes Stewart's recollections of his career in the N.W.M.P and his life in the years that followed the Rebellion.