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File · [1930’s – 1940’s]
Part of Prairie Ephemera Collection

Assorted materials and documents produced by the Hudson Bay Company (HBC), Land Department, including:

  • A form for advertising a land sale, with blank spaces to be filled in with the details of the particular parcel of land on offer.
  • Forms for use by travelling representatives of the department, to be used to record land inspections and the performance of interviews.
  • Form letters for arranging meetings
  • A note accompanying a prospect book and interview report, explaining the purpose of the book. Only the note is included in this file; the prospect book itself is not present.
  • A land department interim receipt book
  • Unused HBC land department stationary
  • Newspaper coupons, to be mailed in for a free informational booklet on land available for purchase from HBC
  • A receipt, made out to Mr. C. E. Bodnar, of Loon Lake Saskatchewan, for $18.
  • Various correspondence sent to C.E. Bodnar by HBC managers, chiefly regarding payment arrangements for the amounts owed by Mr. Bodnar for his farmland.
  • A crop declaration form, to be filled out by the farmer on HBC lands, to indicate their production for the season
  • A producer acknowledgement form, which consents to the assignment of part of the signing farmer’s crop to the HBC