File
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[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