Invitation Letter to Dr. Ferguson regarding the 1945 meeting of the Advisory Committee on Indian [Indigenous] Tuberculosis (NRC).

Letter to Ferguson from Ninette Sanatorium regarding the Advisory Committee on Indian [Indigenous] Tuberculosis (NRC).

Letter from Dr. Ferguson to the Hon. J. G. Gardiner, Minister of Agriculture discussing Lebret Indian Residential School, Onion Lake Indian Residential School, Delmas Indian Residential School, Duck Lake Indian Residential School, and securing funding for tuberculosis testing and treatment for students.

Letter to Dr. Ferguson from the Director of Indian Affairs thanking him for conducting tuberculosis surveys in Residential Schools.

The fonds consists of correspondence from Rev. Sam Kennedy, before and during his ministry in Saskatchewan, as well as photographs of Kennedy and the United Church in Francis, Saskatchewan. His correspondence includes: letters written by Kennedy to his mother, from his postings in Alameda (1917) and Francis (1925-1928); to Margaret Kennedy, from various places in Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan (1909-1919, 1927, 1937, 1944-1946); and to Isabel, from Francis, Saskatchewan (1928).

Murray Point, Emma Lake, image on the front of a Christmas card from Walter and Christina Murray, between 1938-1945.

The fonds, related to the Hovdestad family, were accumulated by the source. No other information was captured at the time of transfer to the Swift Current Museum.

The content has not been professionally appraised, arranged, or described. The following is a basic listing of the unprocessed contents:

-10 cards addressed to Louise Hovdestad ( Colleen Eliason, donor's mother)
-3 cards addresses to a father from his children (Lois, Orlando, Stanley, Dennis and Elmer)
-a letter from Francis in Saskatoon, SK to Sydney Olson (Colleen Eliason, donor's father?) in Stewart Valley, SK
-three black notebooks (the notebooks contain prose and poems in English and Norwegian)