Indian Head (N.W.T.)

A celebration in horse and buggy days

IHM.2021.0136
Item
[ca 1900]

Part of Town Collection

A large gathering on Grand Avenue, Indian Head with many people, horses, and buggies,

Account book for Sunny South SD 161

IHM.2021.0446
Item
1890-1908

Part of School Collection

Contains audited records of revenue and expeditures for the years 1890 to 1908.

Angus Mackay writes of this "Great Lone Land"

IHM.2022.0355
Item
1902

Part of Town Collection

Newsclipping of a contribution by Angus Mackay (Superintendent of the Experimental Farm) with his recollections of the early days of settlement of Indian Head and district.

MacKay, Angus

Arthur S. Burrill

IHM.2021.0325
Item
December, 1896

Part of Town Collection

A portrait photo taken of Arthur Burrill on the Christmas of 1896.

Bell barn and portable granaries

IHM.2022.0077
Item
[ca. 1900]

Part of Agriculture Collection

Bell barn photographed from the road (#56). There are farm implements in the foreground and portable wooden granaries on their sides beside the barn. The photograph was likely taken on the same day as IHM.2022.0075 and IHM.2022.0076.

Bell Farm house / headquarters

IHM.2022.0075
Item
[ca. 1900]

Part of Agriculture Collection

Bell Farm house/headquarters building photographed from the road (#56) with two people standing in the doorway and half of the Bell barn on the right of the picture.

Bell Farm house and barn

IHM.2022.0076
Item
[ca. 1900]

Part of Agriculture Collection

Bell Farm house and barn photographed from across the road (#56). There are horses and a wagon in front of the door of the house. The photograph was taken on the same day as IHM.2022.0075.

Ben Holden farm - 12 binders, Indian Head

IHM.2022.0078
Item
[ca1900]

Part of Agriculture Collection

Twelve horse-drawn binders in a field with several farm workers posing in the centre of the photograph and horse and wagon and a woman on a horse on the left of the photo.

Breaking the virgin prairies.

IHM.2021.0384
Item
[189-?]

Part of Agriculture Collection

A man on a plow pulled by oxen breaking the virgin lands.

Brown family farm with a large 12-furrow plow

IHM.2021.0342
Item
[189-?]

Part of Town Collection

The Brown family using a large steam engine to plow their fields. Picture is of three women and five men posing with the big plow - the women and two men seated in two horse-drawn buggies.

Bulls - Experimental Farm, Indian Head, Assiniboia. Canadian Pacific Railway

IHM.2022.0024
Item
[190-]

Part of Gordon Goddard fonds

Photograph of three bulls being shown by three Experimental Farm employees.

Valentine & Sons Publ. Co.

Certificate of title to the Indian Head townsite

IHM.2022.0356
Item
1898

Part of Town Collection

Large certificate listing the specific blocks of land owned by Angus, Smith, Osler and Scarth. Presumably, this was part of the process of organizing the townsite for sale/distribution to private citizens. The town was incorporated in 1902.