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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.

Swanton, Barry

Saskatchewan History Autumn 1957 Vol. X No.3

A small magazine about Saskatchewan history. This issue contains Part 1 (of 3) of the letters of Edwin Jackson Brooks from July 4, 1882 to March 11, 1884 that he wrote home to his wife Helena (Nellie). in Sherbrooke, Quebec.

Brooks, Edwin Jackson

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.

Memories of the Royal Canadian Air Force

Two copies of a homemade 118-page book written by Arnold Dales about his time in the Royal Canadian Air Force during WWII. Dales was a bomber navigator whose plane was shot down over Winterswijk, the Netherlands, on February 21, 1945. He had a broken leg and when that was mended by German medical staff, he was placed in a POW camp near the Danish border. A month later, the war had ended and he was able to return to Canada. He was a real estate agent in Indian Head, mayor of Indian Head and a key person in the creation of the Indian Head Museum.

Dales, Arnold

Prairie Doctor Dad - Thomas Milroy

A self-published glossy 71-page book (staple-bound) by Doctor Thomas Milroy about growing up in Indian Head and his medical career throughout Canada and the United States. Milroy was born in Alberta in 1919 to John Murray Milroy and Marjorie (Taylor) Milroy. The following year, his father was transferred to manage the Union Bank of Canada branch at Indian Head. Thomas's parents, John and Marjorie Milroy, stayed in Indian Head for the rest of their lives (see Indian Head History Book pp 562-563).

Milroy, Thomas

The Race and Other Stories by Sinclair Ross

A small 137-page paperback book containing multiple short stories all written by Indian Head author Sinclair Ross and compiled by University of Ottawa professor Lorraine McMullen.

Ross, James Sinclair

Grainbuyer's Wife

Two copies of a 188-page paperback book based on Ms. McLaughlin's life with her husband, Roy, from 1938 to 1949 while he managed the grain elevator at Archydal, northwest of Moose Jaw.

Sinasia Remembers

A green 150-page (single-sided) paperback book about a long-time nurse, originally from Indian Head, whose nursing career took her to many First Nations and villages throughout BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The book conatains many anecdotes about people and events from her career.

Jerry's Journey - Memoirs of Gerald Michael Willerth

141-page softcover book. Contains stories by Jerry Willerth of his childhood and youth on the farm east of Indian Head. Also stories of his many years of farming and involvement in soil conservation organizations - the Saskatchewan Soil Conservation Association, the Soil Conservation Council of Canada and the Indian Head Agricultural Research Foundation. Also stories of his work in the Bell Barn Society and memories by many friends and colleagues about Jerry and his accomplishments.

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