This Album includes people of all ages who lived, and sometimes worked, on the Bell Farm during the era that Major Bell lived here (1882-1896) and afterwards.

John Boyd married Eliza Jane Thompson in Brandon, Manitoba in 1881.

Stereoscope photo of harvesting, with men from a nearby First Nation helping make the stooks.

Photo by: Bingham and Thom, Winnipeg, Manitoba, ca. 1883. A stereoscopic view of plowing at the Bell Farm in the 1880s.

Sketch based on an as-yet unlocated photograph.

Photo of the Bell Farm by Hall and Lowe, Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Sketch based on photo by Hall and Lowe - Sketch of Harvesting on the Bell Farm - 1883.

Close-up view of one of the horses at the Bell Farm, in front of the stone Bell Farmhouse, with Major Bell on the right, wearing a dark jacket.

View of Bell Farm employees during the first harvest - late summer or early fall, 1883.

This Album includes people of all ages who lived, and sometimes worked, on the Bell Farm during the era that Major Bell lived here (1882-1896) and afterwards.

Multiple units of men, horses and machinery harvesting wheat on the Bell Farm.

This First Nation woman is photographed near one of the large wooden barns on the Bell Farm, probably in 1883. Source: Bell Family Collection - Shelagh Whitaker

Nine teams of three horses each pull a single sulky plow through the virgin prairie soil.

Photo: McCord Museum, Notman Collection: V1388 - taken 1884 - Source: McCord Museum Image V1388

George Bingham worked in the Bell Farm during the 1880s.

Thomas Blenkin was born in Clinton, Ontario in 1869; Rose Anna Newstead was born in 1868, also in Ontario, likely near Haliburton.

PHOTO: Joseph Parnham Calcraft (back row, third from left, with moustache) and his parents [Joseph & Anne Elizabeth] and siblings in England, about 1899, several years before he sailed to Canada in 1903.

Harry Herbert Campkin (1869-1941) came to Indian Head in 1885 and started the first school in the community.

Henry Carre (1833-1918) was the Dominion Lands Surveyor who surveyed the original boundaries for the Bell Farm.

William Bromley Dickin (1858-1937) was born in England; while Elizabeth Marshall Blythe (1856-1945) wa born in Ireland.