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Correspondence, 1925
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Correspondence and other textual material, including manuscript drafts of promotional texts by MacDonell, accounts received by MacDonell of Hebridean settlers travelling expenses, and memoranda by MacDonell regarding requirements for settlers. Also includes specifications for cottages constructed for settlers and farm workers in Alberta by the Scottish Immigrant Aid Society, a Scottish newspaper cartoon depicting Scots answering 'The Call of the West', a pamphlet copy of the Immigration Act and Regulations. Additionally, 'Months diary May 1925' is included along with other draft monthly and yearly reports to the Scottish Immigrant Aid Society prepared in 1925 by MacDonell, as well as minutes of Society meetings, and a copy of an agreement in 1925 between the Society and the Department of Immigration and Colonization.
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