Photographs created, accumulated and used by members of the Grant family. Includes images of agricultural machinery; post office in Riverhurst; buildings and Main Street in Landis; buildings and railway station in Dundurn; buildings and Atlantic Avenue in Kerrobert; Richlea lumber yards; farming operations; Wiseton School; an exterior view of Saskatchewan Legislative Building with grounds in front under development and cannon sitting on sidewalk in foreground; J.I. Case yards in Saskatoon ca. 1913; exterior view of St. Paul's Hospital, Saskatoon; Travellers Day in Saskatoon, 1918; Stanley Almighty Voice Jr. and family taken on One Arrow Indian Reserve near Batoche, Saskatchewan on October 13, 1940; and postcards sent to Ross Grant, James Grant and Mrs. James Grant in Ontario. A few images were taken by Skewis of Saskatoon.

Unidentified people standing in front of Roman Catholic church with rectory and school in view. Image taken by Louis Cochin.

Item component is an article by Diane P. Payment that appears in volume 55, issue 1 of Saskatchewan History beginning on page 31. Article is a biographical sketch of educator and artist, Mlle Onésime Dorval (1845-1932), who came out west from Québec in 1877. As an educator Dorval laid the groundwork for bilingual French and English education in Saskatchewan at Battleford, Batoche, St. Laurent and Duck Lake. Meanwhile as an artist and wood-worker she left many fine examples of her work for posterity. Dorval was also a witness of the armed conflict of 1885 at Fort Battleford, and kept a journal of these events, her travels and other highlights of her long and productive life.