MemorySask

Bill Cram - Superintendent 1958-1978

IHM.2023.0073
Item
1978

Head and shoulders photograph of Dr. Bill Cram (IHM.2023.0073a) and a laminated page entitled "Bill Cram Inducted into Saskatchewan Agriculture Hall of Fame" with a biography of him (IHM.2023.0073b)

Staff photo

IHM.2023.0127
Item
[192-?]

Part of Agriculture Collection

Photo of 33 men in field work clothes kneeling (3 standing behind). The historic barn and cattle are in the background

Capitol Studios

Other Agriculture

OTH
Series
1886 - 2010

Part of Agriculture Collection

This includes minutes from local farm organizations and early photos of local farming activities and operations.

Experimental Farm

EXP
Series
1890 - 2005

Part of Agriculture Collection

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

Breaking the virgin prairies.

IHM.2021.0384
Item
[189-?]

Part of Agriculture Collection

A man on a plow pulled by oxen breaking the virgin lands.

Agricultural contestants from Indian Head with trophies

IHM.2022.0138
Item
1930

Part of Agriculture Collection

Posed photo of twenty Indian Head boys in suits and dresses and with ribbons on their chests and trophies and shields in front of the group. W.H. Gibson, superintendent of the Indian Head Experimental Farm and William Martin stand behind the group.

Campkin's Outfit 1907

IHM.2023.0111
Item
1907

Part of Agriculture Collection

Harvest crew on the Campkin/Lee Farm.

Campkin's Outfit 1907

IHM.2023.0110
Item
1907

Part of Agriculture Collection

Harvest crew on the Campkin/Lee Farm.

Campkin's Outfit 1909

IHM.2021.0035
Item
1909

Part of Agriculture Collection

Harvest crew on the Campkin/Lee Farm.

Perkins' Outfit 1890s

IHM.2023.0099
Item
[ca.1890]

Part of Agriculture Collection

The harvest crew at the Perkins Farm near Sintaluta.

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.

Unidentified threshing outfit

IHM.2021.0497
Item
[191-?]

Part of Agriculture Collection

Photograph of seventeen men and a little boy posing with threshing equipment, horses and wagons and a tractor

Indian Head grain elevators

IHM.2023.0069
Item
1978

Part of Agriculture Collection

Fall photo of 4 grain elevators from right (foreground) to left "Saskatchewan Pool No. 3 Indian Head"; "Paterson Indian Head"; Cargill; unknown. Label on front says 1978 and handwritten inscription on reverse: "By Jack Fleger 1978"