Searching for Ancestors in Saskatchewan The Sources on this Page Dominion Land Grants lets you search for a name on ArchiviaNet and get the location of the corresponding homestead in Canada. Homestead Forms illustrates typical forms that might be in a homestead file. Links to Wheat Pool maps and how to read land surveys. Saskatchewan Country Elevator Maps locates small towns and railways using the old Wheat Pool Elevator Maps. Indexed by towns and by township and range land description. Saskatchewan News Index lets you search for obituaries and news items in Saskatchewan. Saskatchewan Archives Reference Service will print and mail homestead papers for a copying fee. They also have Cummins Maps that show land ownership in a district around 1920. Send your requests by e-mail. National Library of Canada resAnet catalog search will locate any of their holdings. National Archives of Canada has searches for locations of old post offices, photographic archives, and other information. Elizabeth Dafoe Library at the University of Manitoba has the largest Icelandic collection in Canada. Vestur-Íslenzkar Æviskrár by Benjamin Kristjánsson and Jónas Thordarson, published in 6 volumes by O. Björnssonar and Skjaldborg [1961-1992] in Akureyri. This is a collection of family histories of Icelandic immigrants to North America in Icelandic. Many are drawn from obituaries in Icelandic newspapers. Many entries are about residents of Saskatchewan. With the help of an Icelandic-English dictionary, the reader can usually determine the year of immigration, ancestors, siblings, and children of the people recorded in the book. Hálfdan Helgason - Reykjavík - Iceland halfdan@itn.is back