Indian Head, Saskatchewan

Indian Head is a town in southeast Saskatchewan, Canada, 50 km east of Regina. The town is directly north of the Trans-Canada Highway. The town is known for having a federally operated experimental farm and a tree nursery that produces seedlings for shelterbelts in the province.

Related Topics:
Town - Saskatchewan - Canada - Regina - Trans-Canada Highway

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The first settlers moved into the district in 1882, a few months ahead of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The Bell Farm at Indian Head consisted of 53,000 acres and was so huge and out of the ordinary that on many occasions the passenger trains would stop and let the passengers watch the harvesting operation.

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In 1887 the Dominion Experimental Farm was founded, as one of the original research stations in Canada and today is still doing research and giving valuable information to farmers. In 1902 the P.F.R.A. Tree Nursery was started and is still shipping out several million trees each year for farm shelterbelts in the three prairie provinces.

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Indian Head was incorporated as a town in 1902 and in that year the Canadian Journal published by James McAra noted that Indian Head was the largest point of initial shipment of wheat in the world.

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