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MacRae Library Atlantic Canada farm and rural life collection File
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Field notebooks and soil profile descriptions in Nova Scotia

File contains field notebooks and soil profile descriptions in Nova Scotia from the 1940s to the 1960s. The field notebooks are initialed J.D.H. for Hants county, one initialed A.M.M. covering Berwick and Annapolis County, one initialed D.C.M. / C.B. covering Hants County, Debert, Truro, Upper Kennetcook, one initialed C.B. for Margaree and Richmond county, one initialed Annp, for Annapolis Valley, one that highlights Musquodoboit, one for Lunenburg, Queens, Shelburne etc. A datebook for 1970 noting the Masstown and Belmont areas, no name, Inside front cover marked Government of Canada employee. There are also photographs from Ontario, depicting agriculturalists, agricultural activities in orchards in Ile d'Orleans, Many photographs are marked by F.F.M. from 1945 in New Liskeard, Cochrane, Strickland Ontario, properties of Peter Johnson and others, a Temiskaming [sic Timiskaming] farmstead, and Temagami forest. Photographs feature and crop fields, farm homes and structures, the condition of a soil surveyor's car, and soil samples. There is also soil sample data from Halifax, Shelburne, Guysboro [sic Guysborough], Digby, Lunenburg, Queens, Yarmouth, Colchester, Cumberland, Valley, and the South Shore.