Son of Major W.R. and Catherine (Elwood) Bell - Sherwood Ambler Bell (1868-1870) was born in Elizabethtown, Ontario in approximately June 1868.

A hunting party with their canoe, dogs and catch of birds, possibly at the south edge of the Qu'Appelle Valley, north of the Bell Farm in the 1880s.

A second view of the Duck Hunters includes this inscription on the back: "Major Bell with W. Crawley Ricardo, Compliments" This notation could indicate that Crawley took the photo, and sent a copy back to Major Bell.

Photographed at the John Ross Studio, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Major Bell (left) and an unidentified man, photographed around 1882.

Formal portrait of Major W.R. Bell in the 1880s.

Major Bell [centre] and others at the doorway of the Bell Farmhouse, 1883. Major Bell is wearing a pith helmet that is visible in several historic photos.

Major Bell's first wife, photographed at the Bell Farmhouse, Indian Head, 1884.

Jack McKee was the nephew of Major and Catherine Bell. He lived at or near Barrie, Ontario, and is recorded by the "Northern Advance", published in Barrie, as going to the Bell Farm for the autumn in August, and returning in December, 1891, to visit his Aunt at Indian Head.

Major Bell, posing in a studio between 1893 and 1894, when Robert Randolph Bruce took a number of photos of important western personalities at his photographic studio in Calgary.

Major Bell's Apartment during his 1894 trip to England.

It appears that this sketched image of Major Bell may have been taken from a photo taken the same day as the view where the Major faces directly into the camera. Note the similarity of the suit and tie, as well as his hair style.

Major Bell in 1911, three decades after starting the Bell Farm Major Bell is visiting with one of the Indigenous women of the region, standing at the base of the large flagpole in front of his Farmhouse.

Side view sketch of Major Bell wearing a top hat.

Major Bell in a dense forest, wearing his pith helmet.