Photograph of the reconstructed Bell barn with utility building in background - built according to the pattern for the many cottage homes that were spread across the huge Bell farm..

The fonds was donated to the museum in 2012 by staff of the Government of Canada’s Agroforestry Centre, prior to its closure in 2014. From 1901 to 2013, the nursery provided over 650 million tree and shrub seedlings and rooted cuttings (poplar and willow) to the prairie regions of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, as well as the Peace River District of BC for use in farmyard, field and roadside shelterbelts for wind, snow and erosion control. It was the major single employer in Indian Head for most of its existence.
It was previously known as the Shelterbelt Centre, the Tree Nursery and the Forest Nursery Station and belonged, at times, to the Department of the Interior, the Department of Regional and Economic Expansion and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. It operated under the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration (PFRA) from 1963 to 2008 and under the Agri-Environment Service Branch (AESB) from 2008 to 2013.
The distribution of trees and shrubs for shelter was initiated by Angus MacKay, first superintendent of the Experimental Farm. Because of the rapid increase in demand by farmers, a dedicated Forest Nursery Station was created south of Indian Head.
The fonds contains historic reports, publications, correspondence and documents from 1890 to 1994. All of the items are contained in letter-sized plastic sleeves. The slides are grouped in the cabinet by subject area and by years and are all numbered and titled and indexed in two accompanying binders that are used as a finding aid. Most of the slides are technical in nature (pictures of trees and shrubs, insects, shelterbelts, etc.) but some categories include people who were, in some way, involved in the shelterbelt program.

Pages 26-32 of Folklore magazine describe the medical case of Evelyn Dyers hyperparathyroidism and her diagnosis by Dr. Gordon Fahrni of Winnipeg and Indian Head's Dr. Alfred C. Scott

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.

A blue 3-ring binder with 8 single-sided laminated pages of memories of Trevor Quinn about the St. Andrew's United Church in Indian Head.

Newsclipping describes Leo's Pool Room/Barber Shop at 616 Grand Avenue (torn down in 2021), which was a fixture in Indian Head since 1965.

A laminated newspaper clipping of an article in the Indian Head - Wolseley News about the unveiling of a commemorative cairn in honour of members of Carry-The-Kettle (Ce-Ga-Kin) First Nation who served in the military.

Six newspaper clippings five of which are laminated all pertaining to the television show Little Mosque on the Prairie which filmed all of its outside scenes in Indian Head.

Two copies of the Annual Remembrance Day special edition of the Indian Head - Wolseley News for the year 2007 with 32 pages (in two sections of 16 pages each) of articles about men and women from the Indian Head area who served in the military, including WWI, WWII or other conflicts.

Allan Hubbs, Indian Head's 28th Mayor. He held office from 2006 to 2012.

Open letter on behalf of the Bell Barn Society asking for donations to rebuild the Bell Barn. The rebuilt Bell Barn currently (2022) is a museum 1 km north of Indian Head, west of Highway 56.

The Annual Remembrance Day special edition of the Indian Head - Wolseley News for the year 2006 with 32 pages (in two sections of 16 pages each) of articles about men and women from the Indian Head area who served in the military, including WWI, WWII or other conflicts.

A single page in a St. Andrew's United Church post-marked 2007-08-10 with John C. Massel's obituary sent to Freddie Stanger by Sheila McLeod, in response to Ms. Stanger's request.

Four laminated pages of newspaper clipping - two articles about the Orange Home in Indian Head. There is a second, unlaminated copy of the first page.

Letter to Bill Towill from his father (Bill Towill Sr.) who was the superintendent of the Experimental Farm with attached article about the Experimental Farm [ca. 1940]