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- Microfilmed 1986 (originally created 1884-1933) (Creation)
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Extent and medium
3 microfilm reels
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Emily Eliza Steele Gordon Cathcart, ?-1935, wife of Sir Reginald Archibald Edward Cathcart, bart., of Cluny Castle, Sauchen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, inherited estates in the Western Isles of Scotland. Concerned about the welfare of her crofters (tenant farmers), in 1883 and 1884 she sponsored the settlement of 45 crofter families on lands owned by the Canada North West Land Company in the vicinity of Wapella, Saskatchewan. She continued to have an interest in lands in that district into the 1930s.
For further information see: A Study of Locational Changes among Hebridean Immigrants in Southeast Saskatchewan, 1883 to 1926 / Marilyn Lesley Lewry (M.A. thesis, University of Regina, 1985); and Help us to a Better Land : Crofter Colonies in the Prairie West / Wayne Norton. -- Regina : Canadian Plains Research Center, University of Regina, 1994.
Repository
Archival history
Loaned by Lady Gordon Cathcart’s heir, Robin Linzee Gordon, to David Breen for microfilming.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Purchased from David Breen, 1986.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
The fonds consists of correspondence, reports, lists of settlers with their holdings, maps, copies of land deeds, memoranda of leases, reports on land examinations, municipal tax notices and receipts, cheque stubs, and inventory of documents transferred (1902).
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Conditions governing access
No restrictions on access.
Conditions governing reproduction
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Script of material
Language and script notes
The material is in English.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
No finding aid.
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
The original records were transferred to the University of Aberdeen and may have been misplaced.
Existence and location of copies
Another copy is held by the Saskatchewan Archives Board.
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Title based on contents of records.
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Microfilm-Gordon Cathcart