About Our Collection

The Provincial Archives plays an important role in preserving the cultural resources of the province.  It acquires and preserves records essential not just for self-knowledge, but also for the protection of our rights, individually and collectively.  The Archives collects both private and public records, and once acquired, these records are made part of the permanent collection.

In this section of our website, you can:

• Browse the Finding Aids of our Collections
• Index
  • Please use this alphabetical index to review available guides and to locate guide numbers.
     
• Guides 
  • Please by patient, due to the large number of guides this link will be slow to open
  • Once open, please use Ctrl-F to open a search window in the Smartfile browser to search for a specific guide number, using this format:
    • GS_256
    • GR_10
    • SAFA_458
  • If scrolling or browsing, please be aware that the listing is not sorting into ideal apha-numberic order at this time.
     
• Search Threshold, our archival management database, to identify records in the Provincial Archives' Collection, or search for a pre-1930 homestead file
• Learn about land records in the Provincial Archives' Collection, learn about the history of land management in Saskatchewan, and search for a pre-1930 homestead file
• Learn more about the types of records in the Provincial Archives' Collection, including:
  • court records
  • documentary art
  • education and school records
  • family history sources
  • ressources en français / French resources
  • government records
  • maps and architectural drawings
  • moving images
  • municipal records
  • newspapers and other publications
  • photographs
  • political and ministerial records
  • recorded sound
  • records from private donors.
     
• View virtual exhibits which feature reproductions of archival documents from the Provincial Archives' Collection