- IHM.2020.0088
- Item
- 1934
Part of Book Collection
A small 224-page paperback novel about life in the Canadian west.
Part of Book Collection
A small 224-page paperback novel about life in the Canadian west.
Black Baseball Players in Canada - A Biographical Dictionary 1881-1960
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A 203-page softcover book with an alphabetically organized series of biographies of about 500 baseball players who played for various teams throughout Canada from 1881 to 1960. It includes many players of the barn-storming teams that played on the prairies during the 1950s, including the Indian Head Rockets. Writeups include: Nathaniel "Nat" Bates, who pitched for the Rockets in 1952 and visited Saskatchewan in 2022 for the induction of the Indian Head Rockets (1950-1954) into the Saskatchewan Baseball Hall of Fame in Battleford and for the opening off the Indian Head Rockets display at the Indian Head Museum; Elijah "Pumpsie" Green who also played for the Rockets and was the first black player on the Boston Red Sox. Many other Indian Head Rockets players are also included.
Swanton, Barry
E. J. Brooks Letters to His Wife
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The full collection of E. J. Brooks's letters to his wife Helena (Nellie) in Sherbrooke, Quebec. It also contains a 1-page biography written by his son, Murray; a reprint of an article written by E. J. Brooks titled "Pioneer Days" that he wrote for the Vidette newspaper - December 19, 1900.
Brooks, Edwin Jackson
Echoes of the Qu'Appelle Lakes District
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A local history by former Indian Head school principal, including local aspects of the fur trade, the North-West Resistance, the CPR and agriculture settlement.
Petty, Thomas
Finders, Keepers - A photographic survey of Saskatchewan museums
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110-page softcover book containing photographs of Saskatchewan museums. .Page 75 is of the Indian Head Museum's Mary Skinner working at the table on the second floor of the fire hall.
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Two copies of a 188-page paperback book based on Ms. McLaughlin's life with her husband, Roy, from 1938 to 1949 while he managed the grain elevator at Archydal, northwest of Moose Jaw.
Indian Head Elementary School Cookbook
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A large 279-page coil-bound book full of recipes sent in by students and staff of the Indian Head Elementary School.
Indian Head Elementary School
Indian Head: History of Indian Head and District
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Large hardcover history book with a worn grey cover sleeve. The book contains the history of Indian Head and district as well as black and white images and maps.
Jerry's Journey - Memoirs of Gerald Michael Willerth
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141-page softcover book. Contains stories by Jerry Willerth of his childhood and youth on the farm east of Indian Head. Also stories of his many years of farming and involvement in soil conservation organizations - the Saskatchewan Soil Conservation Association, the Soil Conservation Council of Canada and the Indian Head Agricultural Research Foundation. Also stories of his work in the Bell Barn Society and memories by many friends and colleagues about Jerry and his accomplishments.
Looking Back: A History of the Robert and Hannah (Swinton) Williamson Family 2013 - 1783
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A large green 288-page hardcover book containing genealogical information about the Williamson family.
Mavis (Guest) (Gray) Jealous - Memories, stories and more.
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A coil-bound 24-page summary of the life of Mavis Jealous and photographs for reference, based on interviews conducted by Bev Deschenes.
Deschenes, Bev
Memories of the Royal Canadian Air Force
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Two copies of a homemade 118-page book written by Arnold Dales about his time in the Royal Canadian Air Force during WWII. Dales was a bomber navigator whose plane was shot down over Winterswijk, the Netherlands, on February 21, 1945. He had a broken leg and when that was mended by German medical staff, he was placed in a POW camp near the Danish border. A month later, the war had ended and he was able to return to Canada. He was a real estate agent in Indian Head, mayor of Indian Head and a key person in the creation of the Indian Head Museum.
Dales, Arnold
Our Game Too - Influential Figures and Milestones in Canadian Baseball
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A 447-page softcover book about baseball in Canada. Contains a chapter - "Indian Head and Canada's Greatest Baseball Tournament 1947-55" - by Max Weder (pp. 386-396).
Prairie Doctor Dad - Thomas Milroy
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A self-published glossy 71-page book (staple-bound) by Doctor Thomas Milroy about growing up in Indian Head and his medical career throughout Canada and the United States. Milroy was born in Alberta in 1919 to John Murray Milroy and Marjorie (Taylor) Milroy. The following year, his father was transferred to manage the Union Bank of Canada branch at Indian Head. Thomas's parents, John and Marjorie Milroy, stayed in Indian Head for the rest of their lives (see Indian Head History Book pp 562-563).
Milroy, Thomas
Saskatchewan History Autumn 1957 Vol. X No.3
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A small magazine about Saskatchewan history. This issue contains Part 1 (of 3) of the letters of Edwin Jackson Brooks from July 4, 1882 to March 11, 1884 that he wrote home to his wife Helena (Nellie). in Sherbrooke, Quebec.
Brooks, Edwin Jackson