The CPR track was laid through Indian Head in August, 1882.

The collection consists of primarily textual items, published by the Presbyterian Church in Canada. Contents include published Acts and Proceedings (with minutes of the General Assembly, reports, etc.), materials related to the Committee on Church Union and the Presbyterian Church Association, as well as a range of other documents and publications about Church Union, especially the Presbyterian debates on that topic.

The fonds consists of textual materials generated by Carlyle Pastoral Charge and its constituent congregations – the church boards, committees and related bodies, local women’s units and other groups.

Contents include: minutes of official boards, managers, session, and congregational meetings; some correspondence, financial records, annual reports and newsletters; communion rolls and related membership records; an early Circuit Register; and a register of baptisms, marriages, and burials held at Carlyle, Moose Creek, Sutherland, and related locations.

Published minutes of Saskatchewan Conference and its predecessors, published under variant titles (some as shared multi-region volumes): Manitoba and North-West Conference; Manitoba Conference; Manitoba, Assiniboia and Alberta Conferences; Manitoba and Saskatchewan Conferences; Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta Conferences; and Saskatchewan Conference.

Volumes contain reports, statistical information and station lists, and clergy for areas included in Saskatchewan Conference and the other areas noted in the titles. Some localities in Manitoba were included in the Assiniboia and Saskatchewan Conferences.

Consists of various articles and other documents, relating to the Presbyterian Church in Canada and meetings of its committees, boards, synods and other internal organizations.

Publications:

• First Report of Historical Committee. (Adopted by the General Assembly, 1917.) 15 p.
• Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church in Manitoba and the North-West. June, 1884, 16 p.
• Annual Report of the Church and Manse Building Fund of the Presbyterian Church in Manitoba and the North-West, June, 1886. 32 p.
• Annual Report of the Church and Manse Building Board of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, for Manitoba and the North-West Territories. June, 1887. 16 p.
• The Acts and Proceedings of the Second Synod of Manitoba and the North-West Territories of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, May 19-22, 1885. 25 p.
• Minutes of the Thirty-sixth Synod of Manitoba, October 13 - 15, 1919. 26 p.
• Overture to the General Assembly Presented to the Presbytery of Winnipeg, by Rev. Prof, George Bryce, Member of the Assembly's Union Committee, 4 p.
• Presbyterian Convocation: Instructions To Delegates, June 5 and 6, 1917. 1 p.
• Presbyterian General Assembly: Railway Arrangements For Delegates. June 6-15,1917. 1 p.
• Statement on Church Union from the Session of St. Paul's Church. [Prince Albert, Sask.]. [1924], 4 p.
• Commissioners to the Fiftieth General Assembly, Presbyterian church in Canada, June, 1924. 15 p.
• Presbyterian Church in Canada, General Assembly: Docket of Business and Roll of Assembly, June 1924. 16 p.
• The Presbyterian Record, vol. L., No. 5 (Montreal, May 1925). Pp. 131-158.

This fonds documents the lives of the Copland, Hunter and Anderson families, notably their early years following Margaret and William Hunter's move to Canada and years in Saskatoon. It includes materials relating to events such as the 1885 Resistance; later material documenting student life, at the University, as well as materials documenting the daily life of a pioneering farm family. It also includes a card collection maintained by her Barbara Anderson's daughter, Bertha; agricultural fair ribbons from Bertha’s husband, George; and University of Saskatchewan memorabilia from Bertha and George’s daughter, Thelma.