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Here are detailed file-by-file descriptions of the contents of specific fonds and/or links to scanned documents.


Lady Dawson and W. M. Graham, Winnipeg, Manitoba
August 1930
NA-5462-33

William Morris Graham and Alice Tye fonds

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Inventory

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Series 1

William Morris and Helena Violette Graham

M-8097-1Letters to William Morris Graham. - 1882-1934. - File also includes some letters written by Graham.
M-8097-2AGraham's memoirs- pages 1-149. - n.d.
M-8097-2BGraham's memoirs- pages 150-282. - n.d.
M-8097-2CPhotographs from Graham's memoirs. - n.d.
M-8097-3APhotocopy of Graham's memoirs- pages 1-149. - n.d.
M-8097-3BPhotocopy of Graham's memoirs- pages 150-282. - n.d.
M-8097-3CEdited version of Graham's memoirs. - Published by Glenbow-Alberta Institute copyright 1989. - Note this file can be found in M-8097-oversize.
M-8097-4Papers regarding Treaties 4, 7, 8 and 10. - 1876- 1931
M-8097-5Papers regarding Reservation on the Prairie Provinces. - 1885-1930 and n.d. - File includes Order in Council (1918) and financial statement regarding work on the Reserves (1913-1922).
M-2474 Graham's article "The Life of Otter Skin, Saulteaux Indian" about a File Hills resident. - 1935
M-8097-6Maps. - 1877, 1926, 1930 and n.d. - File includes Qu'Appelle Indian Agency and area.
M-8097-7Superannuation- application and valuation. - 1924 and 1932
M-8097-8Invitations. - 1919, 1932 and n.d.
M-8097-9Manuscripts by Helena Violette Graham (Mrs. W. M. Graham). - n.d. and 1819
M-8097-10Scrapbook of newspaper clippings regarding W. M. Graham and First Nations affairs. - 1917-1937. - Note this file can be found in M-8097-oversize.
M-8097-11Newspaper clippings regarding First Nations issues, events and affairs. - 1902-1954
M-8097-12"The Cree Monthly Guide" newsletter, written in Cree. - March 1931

Series 2

Alice Tye (Cousin of W. M. Graham)

M-8097-13 Correspondence, including letter to Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance. - 1958-1965. - Note file missing as of 2001.
M-1259 Correspondence. - 1924-1933. - Consists of papers relating to Long Lance, letters from Long Lance to Alice Tye and W. M. Graham (1924-1931); newspaper account of Long Lance's death (1932); and letters regarding Long Lance's education and war record.
M-2473 Correspondence. - Consists of letters regarding the uniforms of Indian Agents (1823); and letter from Erastus Wiman to Sir John A. Macdonald, offering to take Poundmaker for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show (1886).
M-8097-14Tye's outline and research notes for proposed book regarding First Nations of the Prairie Provinces and Graham. - 1917-1965 and n.d.
M-8097-15Tye's poems and short stories. - 1905-1965 and n.d.
M-8097-16Tye's paper on Italian Art. - 1916
M-8097-17Income tax. - 1937-1939 and 1941
M-8097-18Magazine articles regarding First Nations affairs. - 1926-1965 and n.d. - File also includes map of Treaties.
M-8097-19Newspaper clippings. - 1924, 1940-1956 and n.d. - Consists of various events including the death of Lord Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts, Hollywood in Regina, and the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip.
M-8097-20Newspaper clippings regarding Tye family information. - [1904, 1915] and n.d.
M-8097-21Sheet Music for "Oh Canada". - 1909


Series 3


Photographs

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NA-5462-(1-33) Views of William Graham, Cree people and events, the File Hillls Agency, etc. - [ca. 1901]-1930. - 33 photographs
PA-3227 Views of William Graham, Cree people and events, the File Hillls Agency, etc. - [ca. 1901]-1930. - 47 photographs
PB-784 Portrait of W.F. Tye. - 1 photograph
PD-269-vol.1 Album of views of the Graham family, friends, Cree, agency activities, etc. - 1906-1908, 1910. - ca. 300 photographs. - Includes views of a 1910 trip to the Bahamas.
PD-269-vol.2 Album of views of the Graham family, friends, Cree, agency activities, etc. - 1908-1910. - 75 photographs
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