MemorySask

Brooks/Donnelly/Gerry Album

BDG
File
1896-1929

Part of People Collection

Photo album of the Brooks, Donnelly and Gerry family.

Wedding day photo of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Leach

IHM.2020.0006
Item
November 17, 1897

Part of Lil Leach Fonds

Arthur Leach and Edith Dixon on their wedding day.

Leach, Arthur

Account Book of John Livingston

IHM.2020.0203
Item
1886 - 1898

Part of School Collection

A small (17 cm X 25 cm) 36-page unlined paper school exercise book (Humber Practice Book) containing notes and financial records. Many of the financial entries involve groceries (apples, tea, sugar) and "Wide Awake" entitles some of the pages. There are also personal notes, apparently by Mr. Livingston

Wide Awake School District #54

Letter from Alex Stibbard to Frank, a relative in England

IHM.2022.0359
Item
September 25, 1898

Part of People Collection

Photocopy of a handwritten letter, along with a typed version of a personal letter. In the letter, Stibbard says that he has "the 1/2 section south of the Bell Farm house." letter describes farming and crops and names local Indian Head area farmers. It finishes by requesting Frank to send him and his wife a "girl ... Protestant preferred."

The Vidette Indian Head Northwest Territories Christmas Annual (1898)

IHM.2020.0013
Item
December, 1898

Part of Town Collection

Newspaper special issue with advertising and stories about local businesses, people and institutions including the Experimental Farm

The Vidette

Certificate of title to the Indian Head townsite

IHM.2022.0356
Item
1898

Part of Town Collection

Large certificate listing the specific blocks of land owned by Angus, Smith, Osler and Scarth. Presumably, this was part of the process of organizing the townsite for sale/distribution to private citizens. The town was incorporated in 1902.

Four sons of Edwin Jackson Brooks and Helena (Nellie) (Oughtred) Brooks

IHM.2021.0039
Item
1899

Part of People Collection

Collage of four head-and-shoulders studio portraits of (clockwise from top left): Harry, Edwin (Ned), Murray and Allan Brooks

Overlooking Indian Head

IHM.2021.0333
Item
[189-?]

Part of Town Collection

Looking over Indian Head, you can see the Gordon Hotel as well the Methodist Church and, in the distance, the original Presbyterian Church.

Crawford's store, Indian Head

IHM.2021.0336
Item
[189-?]

Part of Town Collection

A group of people standing in front of Crawford & Company - store and post office.

Indian Head Station

IHM.2020.0015b
Item
1884-1899

Part of Businesses Collection

Two photographs of the Indian Head CPR train station in the late 1880s. There are people on the platform, including three indigenous people with blankets.

Xmas Greetings

IHM.2021.0323
Item
[189-?]

Part of Town Collection

A photo of two people in a sleigh outside a brick house in the winter. Reverse says: "With Xmas greetings from Kie house (?). Indian Head. Canada"

Brown family farm with a large 12-furrow plow

IHM.2021.0342
Item
[189-?]

Part of Town Collection

The Brown family using a large steam engine to plow their fields. Picture is of three women and five men posing with the big plow - the women and two men seated in two horse-drawn buggies.