- INH
- Series
- 1903 - 2022
Part of Rural Municipality Collection
Photos and Items Related to the RM of Indian Head and the people inside it.
Part of Rural Municipality Collection
Photos and Items Related to the RM of Indian Head and the people inside it.
Part of Town Collection
Booklets, posters, and photos about the naming of Indian Head, homecomings or other significant events in Indian Head history
Indian Head
Part of Recreation Collection
Most of the items relate to the Indian Head Rockets of the Western Canadian Baseball League in the early 1950s - especially the young black American players/teams that drew huge crowds for several years at that time.
Part of Book Collection
Includes well-known literature (Sinclair Ross, Maureen Hunter) as well as smaller circulation and personal publications.
Part of Book Collection
This series consists of books that do not fit the other series but are of local interest for other reasons.
Part of Military Collection
Articles, photos, memoirs about Indian Head and WWII
Part of People Collection
History or correspondence, related to particular individuals
Part of Businesses Collection
Business write-ups or records of businesses that operated in Indian Head and district, including blacksmiths, grocery stores, pharmacies, etc.
Part of Indigenous Collection
Articles about First Nations history and culture
Part of Businesses Collection
The CPR track was laid through Indian Head in August, 1882.
Part of Town Collection
Consists of records, articles, reunion materials related to the Orange Home for Dependent Children, including several items related to the Orange Lodge and the Orange Benevolent Society. This is in addition to Orange Home records and photos scanned from binders loaned to the museum by Janice McBain - previous Director of the Orange Home when it closed.
Part of Organizations Collection
The RCMP (and NWMP) and their relation to Indian Head and district
Part of Businesses Collection
Items related to the Grand Theatre ( formerly called the Auditorium, the Garry Theatre and the Nite Hawk Theatre)
Part of Indigenous Collection
7 interviews with Metis knowledge keepers
Part of Agriculture Collection
The Bell Farm Series contains photos, maps and textual records about the 57,000 acre Qu’Appelle Valley Farming Corporation (called “The Bell Farm”), of which Major William Robert Bell of Brockville, Ontario, was the founder in 1882 and the farm’s general manager. Financial difficulties associated with crop failures as well as the 1885 Northwest Resistance at Batoche (led by Louis Riel Jr.) arose at the farm. During the Resistance, Major Bell and most of his workers and horses were in the service of the Canadian militia and little or no crop was planted or harvested. In 1886, much of the farm’s land and assets were sold and the corporation was re-financed, resulting in a smaller company registered as “The Bell Farm Company.” This company also failed financially by 1889 and was liquidated.
Major Bell retained a personal holding of 12,000 acres, which he farmed from 1889 to 1895, supported by investors. Further misfortunes, primarily, the destruction by fire of his flour mill and the sudden death of his wife caused Major Bell to leave Indian Head in 1895. His land and assets were sold by auction.
The archival materials include photos of the farm buildings, including the large stone house and the round barn which, in 2020, continues to be a museum dedicated to telling the story of Major Bell’s huge farming company. Other photos and textual records tell the stories of the people and the operations of the farm.