James McLean, Flora, Elizabeth, Nellie and Neil
Photo credit: James Mclean Family - Saskatoon Public Library, Local History Room [PH-94-98-1]
1916 - The bunk house is built. The Nursery Station distributes its first ash, poplar and willow seedlings.
1921 - 'The shelterbelts surrounding the nursery were beginning to afford the young seedlings and cuttings more protection and production went more smoothly'. Sara Williams, Saskatoon Forestry Farm Park & Zoo: A Photographic History.
1930 - The Sutherland Forest Nursery Station overtakes Indian Head by shipping out three and a half million trees to Indian Head's almost three million.
Control of natural resources and public lands is transferred to the provinces and the nursery stations face closure.
1931 - After much public protest, Prime Minister Bennett transfers control of the nursery stations to the Experimental Farm Branch of the Department of Agriculture.
1935 - In combined efforts with the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration (PFRA), the nurseries become heavily involved in field shelterbelt production.
1942 - William Leslie (Les) Kerr becomes the Station's second Superintendent.