- IHM.2021.0333
- Stuk
- [189-?]
Part of Town Collection
Looking over Indian Head, you can see the Gordon Hotel as well the Methodist Church and, in the distance, the original Presbyterian Church.
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Part of Town Collection
Looking over Indian Head, you can see the Gordon Hotel as well the Methodist Church and, in the distance, the original Presbyterian Church.
Part of Town Collection
A group of people standing in front of Crawford & Company - store and post office.
Indian Head town hall and Commercial Hotel
Part of Town Collection
This photo includes the town hall (centre), John Brown's blacksmith shop (far left) and the Commercial Hotel otel across from the town hall.
Part of Town Collection
Indian Head's public school shortly after it was built in 1901. There is a second copy in postcard format
Hand-drawn map/sketch of Indian Head in 1882
Part of Town Collection
Sketch/map by Edwin J. Brooks of the CPR station and buildings along the railway - all labelled. A path (later Grand Avenue) goes to the northwest and is labelled "To Bell..."
Zonder titel
Angus Mackay writes of this "Great Lone Land"
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.
Zonder titel
Part of Town Collection
Faded photograph of a building on Grand Avenue and neighbouring buildings. Two men stand in front of the building and two horse-drawn wagons full of lumber are beside it. The photo is glued onto yellow manila paper with the caption "J. Conn's store"
The old Peltier Block at the corner of Water Street and Grand Avenue
Part of Town Collection
Photograph of the Peltier (Pelletier) Block including two shops - Hamilton Brothers Furniture and Tufnell's Mens Store. There are three men in the doorway of the former and one man in the doorway of the latter.
A celebration in horse and buggy days
Part of Town Collection
A large gathering on Grand Avenue, Indian Head with many people, horses, and buggies,
Purchase of cemetery plot by William J. Sandercock
Part of People Collection
Hand transfer certificate for cemetery plot-lot 23: block 3 from the town of Indian Head to William John Sandercock.
Part of People Collection
A painted portrait of William Dixon.
Letter from Alex Stibbard to Frank, a relative in England
Part of People Collection
Photocopy of a handwritten letter, along with a typed version of a personal letter. In the letter, Stibbard says that he has "the 1/2 section south of the Bell Farm house." letter describes farming and crops and names local Indian Head area farmers. It finishes by requesting Frank to send him and his wife a "girl ... Protestant preferred."
Bell barn and portable granaries
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.
View of the Bell farmyard in 1884
Part of Agriculture Collection
Laminated reproduction of a photo from the Notman Photographic Archives, McCord Museum of Canadian History, Montreal. The labels at the bottom of the photograph identify: "Bell Farmhouse"; "round stone barn"; "proposed new barn site" (with an arrow); "wooden barns".
Newsclippings about the Bell Farm
Part of Agriculture Collection
Three newsclippings about the Bell Farm. "The farm that failed" (Leader-Post? - date?); "The Bell Farm: Largest 'bonanza' in the British Empire" (Free Press Weekly, March 4, 1972); "Major Billy's lovely legacy" (Western People, May 3, 1990)