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Around the World in the Yacht Sunbeam

A small 12 cm X 19 cm) green 368-page hardcover book written by Anne Brassey and containing her memoirs from the trip she and her husband, Lord Thomas Brassey took around the world in their yacht, the Sunbeam, from July 1, 1876 to May 26, 1977.

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Black Baseball Players in Canada - A Biographical Dictionary 1881-1960

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.

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The Country Doctors

272-page book with biographies of 28 country doctors in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, including maps and b&w photographs. Dr. Robert George Ferguson of Fort San (Fort Qu'Appelle) (pp 203-220) and Dr. Fredrick W. Hart of Indian Head (pp 221-224) are two of the doctors.

Gladys (Wade) Perrin took a colorful path

Biography of Gladys (Wade) Perrin, who taught in Indian Head (Grade 7) from 1941 to 1944. Hand-written note on the article says: "formerly Gladys Wade who taught in IH 1941-1944. Beth Dechief"

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Copithorn family - writeup by S.R. Copithorn

Two typed pages about S.R. Copithorn's Uncle Samuel B. Copithorn and his father, Richard Copithorn, who came to Indian Head from Bolton, Ontario in 1881 and 1898, respectively.

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100 years of age

Newspaper article about the 100th birthday of Mrs. Thomas Kavanaugh of Balcarres.

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Some Extracts and Reminiscences of a Lifetime

A small (12 cm X 19 cm) green 165-page hardcover book containing the published memoirs of Geraldine F. Ball. This copy has been signed by the author.
Geraldine F. Ball lived in England and moved to Grenfell (Sask.) in about 1890. She She was married to William H. Ball and had four children Elizabeth, Fred, Alfred and Olive. Additional information about Geraldine F. Ball can be found in the Grenfell history book a digital copy is available at http://contentdm.ucalgary.ca/digital/collection/p22007coll8/id/51819

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WWII Memories of Stan Scislowski

51 single-sided pages of email printouts from Stan Scislowski of Windsor, Ontario, to Doug Roberton of Indian Head, containing his memoirs of his WWII experience in Aldershot, England and then in action in Italy as a private in the Perth Regiment.

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Indian Head People Scrapbook

A small 14 cm X 20 cm leather-bound 60-page scrapbook of newspaper clippings with biographies and articles about well-known Indian Head citizens, including 16 of the series in the Indian Head News called "Our Own Who's Who".

Alexander McCaughan: A Canadian Soldier

A duo-tang containing an 11-page (single-sided) biography of Alexander McCaughan, a young Irishman, who had come to Indian Head and then enlisted with the Canadian Army and fought in WWI.

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Who's Who of Indian Head

A 19 cm X 28 cm 48-page scrapbook of laminated sheets held together by 2 rings and containing newspaper clippings about various residents of Indian Head. Book was made by Louisa Tyson before she moved to England. After her death in 2002 the scrapbook was sent to Beth Liggett who appears to the one who laminated it.

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