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The Historic Bell Barn

The Historic Bell Barn

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..

Loran, Dan

Bell Farm house / headquarters

Bell Farm house / headquarters

Bell Farm house/headquarters building photographed from the road (#56) with two people standing in the doorway and half of the Bell barn on the right of the picture.

Bell Farm house and barn

Bell Farm house and barn

Bell Farm house and barn photographed from across the road (#56). There are horses and a wagon in front of the door of the house. The photograph was taken on the same day as IHM.2022.0075.

Bell barn and portable granaries

Bell barn and portable granaries

Bell barn photographed from the road (#56). There are farm implements in the foreground and portable wooden granaries on their sides beside the barn. The photograph was likely taken on the same day as IHM.2022.0075 and IHM.2022.0076.

View of the Bell farmyard in 1884

View of the Bell farmyard in 1884

Laminated reproduction of a photo from the Notman Photographic Archives, McCord Museum of Canadian History, Montreal. The labels at the bottom of the photograph identify: "Bell Farmhouse"; "round stone barn"; "proposed new barn site" (with an arrow); "wooden barns".

Letter from Dr. Edmond M. Eberts

Letter from Dr. Edmond M. Eberts

Laminated newspaper article entitled "Interesting letter recalls early days of Indian Head and district" (date and newspaper not given). The article reproduces a letter written by Dr. Edmond M. Eberts - Professor of Surgery at McGill University, son of the Bell Farm's secretary-treasurer H.J. Eberts.

Newsclippings about the Bell Farm

Newsclippings about the Bell Farm

Three newsclippings about the Bell Farm. "The farm that failed" (Leader-Post? - date?); "The Bell Farm: Largest 'bonanza' in the British Empire" (Free Press Weekly, March 4, 1972); "Major Billy's lovely legacy" (Western People, May 3, 1990)

Experimental Farm

The Experimental Farm Series contains photos, maps and textual records of the Government of Canada’s Indian Head Experimental Farm – now the Indian Head Research Farm.
Angus MacKay, who had come to Indian Head as a settler, became the first superintendent. It originally occupied Section 19, Township 18, Range 12, West of 2, which was purchased from the Bell Farm, and Section 30 (the North Farm) was added later. The main office is at coordinates 50.5328; -103.6520.
Angus MacKay’s priorities in the first years were to find and demonstrate adapted cereal crops, vegetables, fruits and shelter trees and shrubs for prairie settlers. The shelterbelt trees and shrubs were in such high demand that a separate Forest Nursery Station (Tree Nursery) was created by the federal government south of Indian Head on an unused “school quarter” in 1901.
The archival materials span the entire history of the Experimental Farm / Research Farm, including stories like the testing and introduction of Marquis wheat, long-term crop rotations, summerfallowing, direct seeding and livestock research. There is information about many past employees and there are many publications that originated from this important and historic research station.

Government of Canada

Experimental Farm plaque

Experimental Farm plaque

A photo taken of a plaque created by the Government of Canada's "Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada" giving a brief description of the federal Indian Head Experimental Farm in both English and French. The original plaque is on the grounds of the Indian Head Research Farm.

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