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,
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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,
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.
MacKay, Angus
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A portrait photo taken of Arthur Burrill on the Christmas of 1896.
Brown family farm with a large 12-furrow plow
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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.
Certificate of title to the Indian Head townsite
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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.
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A group of people standing in front of Crawford & Company - store and post office.
Elevator row - Indian Head, Sask
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A photo taken from afar of elevator row with six visible grain elevators.
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A street view of Joseph Glenn office above E.L. MacVicar & Co. as well as the Commercial Hotel and Massey Harris.
Hand-drawn map/sketch of Indian Head in 1882
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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..."
Brooks, Edwin Jackson
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Part of Town Collection
This is a photo taken of the Indian Head Canadian Pacific Railway Station. In this photograph there are eight people and a dog posing for the photo.
Indian Head Grain Elevators 1890s
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Photograph of ~100 people posing before grain elevators with horses and wagons.
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Indian Head's public school shortly after it was built in 1901. There is a second copy in postcard format
Indian Head town hall and Commercial Hotel
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This photo includes the town hall (centre), John Brown's blacksmith shop (far left) and the Commercial Hotel otel across from the town hall.
James and Margaret (Dixon) Conn house 507 Eden Street
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Photo of James and Margaret Conn's house at 507 Eden Street (northwest corner of Eden Street and Grand Avenue - now Eden House Bed and Breakfast). Men, women and children are in front and on the verandah. The house was built in 1897.