Citation reads: "Federal school on piles (Sir Alexander Mackenzie School), Inuvik, N.W.T. August 22, 1965."

This collection contains the material kept by Professor Deverell in his capacity as Secretary for the Quance Lecture Series. It includes minutes of the committee meetings, correspondence with lecturers, and an almost complete set of both the manuscripts and the published lectures. Missing are the lectures by D.H. Russell (1953), G.E. Flower (1964), and J.R. Kidd (1966) (see University Lectures). Lecturers included J.G. Althouse, ME. LaZerte, W.P. Percival, H.L. Campbell, J.P. Gilmour, C.E. Phillips, G.A. Frecker, H.P. Moffatt, W.H. Swift, W.S. Lloyd, Msgr. I. Lussier, R.W.B. Jackson, J.M Paton, S.R. Laycock, J.F. Leddy, W.R. Wees, F. MacKinnon, J.A. Corry, H. Janzen, A. Renaud, C.D. Ovans, and S. Shack.

This fonds contains minutes, reports, budgets, and correspondence relating to the administration and activities of the department. Also included are correspondence, minutes, drafts, submissions and reports pertaining to the activities of the Saskatchewan Department of Education's Curriculum and Instruction Review Committee.

This collection contains mostly textual materials related to Cecil King’s work in Aboriginal Education. His papers, translation work, speaking notes, and teaching materials are included, as are significant documents from his committee work. The collection includes a number of important documents surrounding the aboriginal education work done by such institutions as the University of Saskatchewan, Queens University, the Indian and Northern Education Program, the Indian Teachers Education Program, the Northern Teachers Education Program, the Saskatchewan Urban Native Teachers Education Program, the First Nations University of Canada (formerly SIFC), the Gabriel Dumont Institute, the Saskatchewan Indigenous Cultural Centre, and more. The history of troubles at the First Nations University of Canada is tracked through nearly-daily news reports collected by King from 2005-2010. King also extensively collected materials on Aboriginal Education, language, and general matters of indigenous interest..

Correspondence, accounts books, and other textual material.

A collection of charts and diagrams that would have likely been used in a classroom setting. Many of them are hand painted, with some being commercially created. The topics include botany, agriculture, zoology, and general science.

Photograph albums, other family and community "milestone" albums (marriage, death, births, anniversaries, graduations, awards, news clippings of local history); materials relating to teaching school in Saskatchewan 1947-1951.