Manuscript and Photographic Supplement
| Database ID | 27064 | |
| Institution | Saskatchewan Archives Board | |
| Fonds/Collection | Pearce, William | |
| File/Item Reference | A 254 | |
| Date of creation | 1925 | |
| Physical description/extent | 1 folder; 2.5 cm | |
| Number of images | 1 | |
| Historical note | The author biography in the preface reads: "For many years as a surveyor and agent of the Dominion Government and later as an officer in the Natural Resources Department of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company at Calgary, he has had unique opportunities of travel throughout the West, and of securing at first hand full information on the topics concerning which he writes" | |
| Scope and content | A copy of an account of the development of the prairie provinces with particular reference to homesteading, railways, postal service, telegraph and telephone communications, river navigation, transportation, Metis settlements, buffalo pounds, and extermination of buffalo, and wolfers. | |
| Restrictions on access | There are no restrictions on access. | |
| Copyright holder | Unknown | |
| Type | Archival | |
| Primary Media | Textual documents | |
| Specific document types | Books | |
| Provenance Access Point | Pearce, William | |
| Treaty boundaries | Canada -- National | |
| Cultural region | Plains Subarctic | |
| Subject | Community Histories Metis | |
| Date Range(s) | 1920-1929 | |
| Permanent Link | https://digital.scaa.sk.ca/ourlegacy/permalink/27064
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