MemorySask

Little girl (toddler) on wooden walkway

FA1.017
Item
[early 1900s]

Part of Rosetown General Photograph Collection

Girl wearing winter coat, hat, stockings, shoes.

Members of Moose Jaw Sioux Indian band

68-277
Item
[1900?]

Part of MJ General Photograph Collection

Moose Jaw Sioux seated for portrait wearing native dress. Seen from left to right: Emma and her husband John Okute, Big Joe, Joe Ferguson and his wife Katrine (Emma's sister). Men seen holding rifles and one holding a peace pipe.

Sod House

69-51
Item
early 1900s

Part of MJ General Photograph Collection

Unidentified family (nine individuals and one dog) standing in front of their sod house, located northwest of Moose Jaw.

J.H. Ellis store at Ellisboro

EL-0021
Item
ca. 1900

Part of WHFA Photos Collection

John Hoskins Ellis established a general store in 1883 in the area that took his name, Ellisboro. This is his first sign, which puts the date in the early days of his business. The log house to the right was used for community functions, such as church and dances.

Yorkton 1901- sketch Stanley Turner

YJ0262
Item
1901

Part of Howard Jackson Collection

Sketch of Yorkton from First Avenue

Thomas Blenkin Harvest Outfit 1901

IHM.2021.0064
Item
1901

Part of Agriculture Collection

Posed harvest crew photo of 15 men standing and sitting as a group in front of threshing equipment.

Edison Franklin Lynn fonds

MG 627
Fonds
1899-1901

This fonds consists of a single handwritten diary containing detailed, daily entries from the date of Lynn’s departure from Belleville on 23 October 1899, until his return home and a ceremony with the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York on 11 October 1901, in Toronto. The entries provide detail of Lynn’s voyage; his immediate call to the front upon his arrival in Cape Town, and all aspects of his service and battles.

Lynn, Edison Franklin

Indian Head Public School souvenir 1901

IHM.2023.0063
Item
1901

Part of School Collection

Photocopy on one page of a 4-page souvenir booklet with a brief history and description of the new elementary school building

The Vidette

Indian Head Public School

IHM.2021.0207
Item
[ca 1901]

Part of Town Collection

Indian Head's public school shortly after it was built in 1901. There is a second copy in postcard format

Yorkton 1901 Sketch

YJ0261
Item
1901

Part of Howard Jackson Collection

Sketch of Yorkton

Wolseley Wheat Blockade

AG-0001
Item
February, 1902

Part of WHFA Photos Collection

Wolseley wheat blockade February 1902. Men stand on and near horses hitched to wagons and sleds at the approach to the Dominion Elevator. Box cars are seen to the right and another elevator is seen in the background.

Brown's Outfit Wide Awake 1902

IHM.2021.0036
Item
1902

Part of Agriculture Collection

A posed photo of the harvest crew on the Brown Farm in the Wide Awake area north of Indian Head.

Angus Mackay writes of this "Great Lone Land"

IHM.2022.0355
Item
1902

Part of Town Collection

Newsclipping of a contribution by Angus Mackay (Superintendent of the Experimental Farm) with his recollections of the early days of settlement of Indian Head and district.

MacKay, Angus