Item is a 56-page Hilroy scribbler with an illustration of a camp site and "CAMP SITE" written on the cover. The notebook contains Hope McPhee's recollections of meeting Roscoe Fillmore and stories about his life and career as a horticulturalist and political activist. Notes are written in pencil.
Item is notes and plastic overheads associated with the class History of Agriculture taught by John Edward Shuh at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in the early 1970's.
Series contains records relating to the history of the Nova Scotia Agriculture College and its relationship with agriculture in Nova Scotia and across the world. This includes early drafts for a university motto and crest, past principal's signatures, and contributions to the provincial government between 1904-2010. Subseries' includes History of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College and agriculture in Nova Scotia. Record types found are textual files, reports, drawings, correspondence, books, and photographs.
Fonds contains Dr. Herbert MacRae’s obituary and tribute articles dedicated to the former Nova Scotia Agricultural College principal. Additionally, the fonds contains a plaque naming the NSAC library in his honour in 1990, and correspondence between Herbert F. MacRae and Layman T. Chapman from 1974.
Fonds contains records created and collected by Harry Brown related to sheep in Nova Scotia and Canada. There are two series', one in the Canadian Co-operative Wool Growers Limited, and the second includes records related to the exhibition and breeding of sheep, and Nova Scotia Sheep Breeders Association records. Records are meeting minutes, financial records, correspondence, and memorandums.
Series contains publications related to agriculture and wildlife issued by the Government of Canada between 1878-2003. It is arranged into two subseries: Agriculture Canada and Miscellaneous Departments.
Series consists of government reports and publications relating to agricultural issues, pastures, livestock, crops, dairy, etc., along with resources for active military service members and veterans, selective statistics and acts and regulations published between 1880-2006.
Fonds consists of reports and studies on Nova Scotia farming and marketing between 1924-1990. Series are comprised of papers, reports, correspondence, photographs, newspaper articles, and signs created and collected by Gordon Kinsman during his Nova Scotia berry research. Materials focus on blueberries, strawberries, the strawberry industry, berry box making, berry shipping, general agriculture, the history of agriculture, dairy, creameries, direct marketing of blueberries and apples, exhibitions in Nova Scotia, the Maritimes, and Canada between 1924-1993.
File contains 25 exam papers likely taken by Glen Stephen Ells between the junior and senior year (1913-1915) for subjects associated with agriculture at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College. The exam papers are mostly typed and cover a range of topics from entomology, dairy, animal husbandry, commercial law, mathematics, and English literature. The exams are annotated and scribbled over and appear to mainly belong to one student Glen Stephen Ells. One exam paper in particular shows strategy planning for a hockey game on the reverse of which Ells was a team-member.
Fonds contains agricultural records, government documents, reports and photographs that were created by, or belonged to, George MacKenzie. Subjects include agriculture, crops, the Nova Scotia Agricultural College, and the Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture.
Fonds consists of reports and publications, most written by George Retson, related to the economics of farming in Canada. Topics include strawberries, apples, dairy, milk, hogs, poultry, livestock production, and others, across mainly Atlantic Canada between 1948-1976.
Fonds contains correspondence from Dr. Frederick Waldemar (Waldo) Walsh to Dr. A. H. Harrington, regarding the Fruit and Vegetable Marketing Co-operative Organization in Nova Scotia in 1963. There are two series, one for certificates of Dr. Walsh, and another series for photographs taken at different events such as 4H events, Department of Nova Scotia Agriculture and Marketing conferences, retirement gatherings, and schools, while Walsh was a professor of Animal Husbandry [at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College] and sheep and swine promoter. Photos were taken and collected between 1910-1963.
Fonds includes published and unpublished papers, correspondence to and from Fred Sears between 1905-1907 while he was Professor of Horticulture at Nova Scotia Agricultural College. The glass negative, lantern slides, and copy negatives and contact prints depict apples and orchard practice around the Agricultural campus and Nova Scotia. Notes on some of the sleeves of the negatives suggest that they date from the period 1898-1907.
File contains the guide notes for a 10 part radio broadcasting series called "Farm Planning Series." Topics of this radio series include farming types, enterprises, management, economics, etc., broadcast in 1941.
Collection consists of one time capsule that contains documents, realia, and photographs that were created by or about the Farm Equipment Museum located on the Provincial Exhibition grounds in Bible Hill, Nova Scotia. There is an inventory created by the Farm Equipment Museum and 2 keys; one key will be retained by the Farm Equipment Museum and the other key with Agricola.
Item consists of the draft of a lecture delivered by Kenneth T. MacKay at the International Conference on Basic Techniques in Ecological Agriculture, October 1978, titled "Exploration of Self-Sufficiency at the P.E.I. Ark".
Item consists of a clipping from the May 7, 1975 issue of The 4th Estate, titled "Experimental P.E.I. 'Ark' will do it all" about the design and construction of the New Alchemy Institute Ark in Spry Point, Prince Edward Island.
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