- RMC
- Collection
- 1890 - 2022
Items related to the Rural Municipality of Indian Head and other nearby RMs.
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- MIC
- Collection
- 1881 - 2022
Articles, photos and stories about Indian Head people who served in various military conflicts
- REC
- Collection
- 1900 - 2022
Sports and other recreational events and activities over the years
- PEC
- Collection
- 1880 - 2022
Archival materials related to local individuals or families
- BOC
- Collection
- 1880 - 2022
Books related to Indian Head and district - either about this area or by or about people who lived in the area.
- GGF
- Fonds
- 1900 - 2021
Textual material excerpted from Gordon Bannerman and Marg Hryniuk, plus historic postcards, including the Imperial Hotel.
Goddard, Gordon
- AGC
- Collection
- 1882 - 2020
The collection consists of various documents and photos about Indian Head's agricultural heritage, including the Bell Farm, the federal Tree Nursery and the federal Experimental Farm. The Agriculture Collection includes materials related agriculture and includes, especially, series pertaining to three major agricultural developments in Indian Head 1) The Bell Farm (Qu'Appelle Valley Farming Company) which was a huge farming venture of 57,000 acres promoted by Major William Robert Bell in 1881-1882 to Eastern Canadian and American shareholders. The venture finally failed and Major Bell left Indian Head in 1895. 2) The federal Experimental Farm which was established in 1887 under the superintendency of Angus MacKay and continues to conduct research as Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's Indian Head Research Farm . 3) The federal Tree Nursery (PFRA) resulted from the promotion of trees and shrubs for shelter by Angus MacKay , the superintendent of the Experimental Farm . Established as a separate federal government station in 1901 under the superintendency of Norman Ross, it provided trees and shrubs for farmers throughout the prairies until its closure in 2014.
- INC
- Collection
- 1923 - 2020
Articles. write-ups and stories about First Nations and Metis history, culture and people
- ORC
- Collection
- 1900 - 2020
Most of the material is included in a few series (Glenn Lunn Circle, Friendly Neighbors Club, 4H Club) - many books of club minutes, events or projects. Other series, such as the lodges, RCMP, Postmasters Association have only a few items.
- IHC
- Collection
- 1882 - 2020
Documents, photos and maps related to the history of the Town of Indian Head from the arrival of the first farmer settlers to the present.
- SCC
- Collection
- 1882 - 2017
In this collection there are many photographs of the school houses, children and staff, as well as textual records detailing their construction and operation.
- TNF
- Fonds
- 2010 - 2013
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.
Government of Canada
- HSF
- Fonds
- 1926 - 2011
Minutes of meetings, programs of annual shows and other correspondence and records
- HEC
- Collection
- 1894 - 2009
News articles, write-ups and other information about health care in Indian Head and district
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