Indian Head, Saskatchewan

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Indian Head is a town in southeast Saskatchewan, Canada, 69 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.

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. This 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.

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.

Indian Head was incorporated as a town in 1902. 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.

The Anglican Diocese of Qu'Appelle was originally centred in the nearby town of Qu'Appelle, whose parish church was the pro-cathedral for southern Saskatchewan. The Bishop's Court, the residence of the diocesan bishop, was in Indian Head.

1 Notable people from Indian Head
2 Interesting Facts
3 Census Data
4 External links

[edit] Notable people from Indian Head

Mark Brayford - lawyer for Robert Latimer, Colin Thatcher and many other notable Saskatchewan cases
Maureen Hunter - Governor General's Award winning playwright
Dave Karpa - National Hockey League athelete
Eric Peterson - television and stage actor
Ron Robison - Western Hockey League Commissioner, former Head of Hockey Canada
Sinclair Ross - noteworthy Canadian Author (went to school in I.H. until grade 11)
David Geiss - filmmaker and actor

[edit] Interesting Facts

Indian Head is home to the Saskatchewan Rural Sports Hall of Fame and Museum.
The innovative local Internet news program Indian Head Today has been featured on CBC's "The National"

[edit] Census Data

According to the Canada 2001 Census:

Population:	1,758 (-4.1% from 1996)
Land area:	3.17 km²
Population density:	554.2 people/km²
Median age:	43.9 (males: 41.0, females: 46.1)
Total private dwellings:	815
Mean household income:	$33,213