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Mainly, the newspapers consist of complete bound copies of many years of the Indian Head News and Indian Head - Wolseley News from 1917 to 1984. As well, there are a miscellany of other newspapers - the Vidette
The main newspaper collection was donated to the Indian Head Museum by the Indian Head - Wolseley News in 2019 and is kept on metal shelving in the basement of the museum's schoolhouse
Missing Years 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1970,1971, 1972, 1974,1975, 1976, 1981, 1982
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The Indian Head - Wolseley News subseries was donated to the museum by the newspaper. Most of the years included from 1913 to 1983 are sets bound between two pieces of stiff cardboard (by year). Some of the early year bindings have come loose and the first and last issues are sometimes frail and crumbling. New cardboard covers are being cut for the years in the worst shape to prevent further deterioration.
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Historic newspapers and newspaper clippings of local content/interest
The Vidette was first published in Fort Qu'Appelle in 1884. It moved to Indian Head in 1896 and was owned by E.W. Miller (see Indian Head History Book pp 153-155).
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Newspaper special issue with advertising and stories about local businesses, people and institutions including the Experimental Farm
Myra (Smith) Stilborn was born at Indian Head in 1916, the daughter of Wilbert and Jessie Smith. After graduating from Regina Normal School, she taught school in southern Saskatchewan. Coming back to Indian Head, she taught at Squirrel Hills School and then at Indian Head Collegiate. She married Arthur Stilborn and moved to Saskatoon (see Indian Head History Book p 679).
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One newspaper article about Myra Stilborn and her poetry.
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The 20-page September 3, 2002 issue of the Indian Head - Wolseley News highlighting the 100th Anniversary of the incorporation of Indian Head, featuring the RCMP Musical Ride and a visit from Lt-Gov Lynda Haverstock.
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A photocopy of a newspaper clipping about the building of the Indian Head Curling Rink by Arthur James (A.J.) Osment in 1888 for $2500. Annotations: "Curling club was organized in 1888 and at the time was the pioneer club of the then Northwest Territories"
The newspaper was first published as The Leader in 1883 by Nicholas Flood Davin, soon after Edgar Dewdney, Lieutenant-Governor of the North-West Territories, decided to name the vacant and featureless site of Pile-O-Bones, renamed Regina by Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, the wife of the Governor General of Canada, as territorial capital, rather than the previously-established Battleford, Troy and Fort Qu'Appelle, presumably because he had acquired ample land on the site for resale.
The first Leader Building, Regina, Assiniboia, 1884
"A group of prominent citizens approached lawyer Nicholas Flood Davin soon after his arrival in Regina and urged him to set up a newspaper. Davin accepted their offer – and their $5000 in seed money. The Regina Leader printed its first edition on March 1, 1883."[2] Published weekly by the mercurial Davin, it almost immediately achieved national prominence during the North-West Rebellion and the subsequent trial of Louis Riel. Davin had immediate access to the developing story, and his scoops were picked up by the national press and briefly brought the Leader to national prominence.
Davin's greatest coup was sending his reporter Mary McFadyen Maclean to conduct a jailhouse interview with Riel. Maclean obtained this by masquerading as a francophone Catholic cleric and interviewing Riel in French under the nose of uncomprehending anglophone watch-house guards.
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Six newspaper clippings five of which are laminated all pertaining to the television show Little Mosque on the Prairie which filmed all of its outside scenes in Indian Head.
Harry J. Painter was the last of the Riel jury to pass away.
Edwin Jackson Brooks was born in Lennoxville, Quebec, in 1949. He and his twin brother Edward arrived in July, 1882 and chose land just west of Indian Head, only to be told that the land had already been reserved by the Qu'Appelle Valley Company (Bell Farm). He later chose land north of Indian Head (Wide Awake District). He became a prominent citizen and merchant in Indian Head. In 1885, he was selected to serve on the jury for the trial of Louis Riel.
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Two newspaper clippings. One is full-page article in the Vidette - Indian Head's newspaper at the time, - entitles "Pioneer Days" by E.J. Brooks and the other is an article about him entitled "Brooks Last Survivor of Riel Jury".
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34 newspaper clippings all about Arthur Leach a former mayor and postmaster of Indian Head.
Clipping is from the Indian Head Wolseley News
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News story tells of Lil Weaver trying to see if her father (Herbert Russel Sauder) is in one of the photographs also showcased in the clipping. Photos in the clipping are of the Indian Head Flour Mill and of the town firehall with firefighters and a firewagon.
Donated by Lil Weaver Sept 17, 2002
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Museum Artifact# 2002-39-1