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Photograph of early 20th century short course participants at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, PB Box 10, Folder 8
File
[191-?]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

File contains a b&w group picture of Nova Scotia Agricultural College students enrolled in a short course in the early 20th century.

Catalogue of plants the Nova Scotia Agricultural College received from Washington Department of Plant Distribution

UA-43, Box 4, Folder 18
File
[191?]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Deeds for sale of lands in Pictou County to John Ives Meagher

MS-2-145, SF Box 25, Folder 6
File
1875-1876

File contains two indentures evidencing the sale of lands in Pictou County. The first indenture (dated 1875) records a land sale from Robert Moran to John Ives Meagher. The second indenture (dated 1876) records a sale from Alexander and Sarah A. McKenzie to John Ives Meagher.

Meagher, John Ives, fl. 1875-1876

School of Agriculture in Bible Hill, Nova Scotia ink sketch from 1892, later known as the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, OVR PB Box 18, Folder 9
File
1892

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Photocopy of an article from the Truro Daily News vol.14:no.135, Thursday, June 9, 1904

UA-43, Box 1, Folder 33
File
June 9, 1904

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

The sheep industry in Nova Scotia

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 1, Folder 50
File
Nov. 27, 1907

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

Photograph of the 1908 graduating class of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, OVR PB Box 8, Folder 10
File
1908

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

File contains a b&w photograph of Nova Scotia Agricultural College graduates in 1908.

Photograph of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College silo and first set of dairy barns ca. 1909

UA-43, PB Box 2, Folder 34
File
1909

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Proceedings of the fourteenth annual meeting of the Nova Scotia Farmers’ Association held in New Glasgow, NS, January 25, 26, 27, 1910

UA-43, Box 1, Folder 34
File
January 1910

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Photograph of the 1911 short course participants at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, PB Box 10, Folder 7
File
1911

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

File contains a b&w group picture of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College students in aashort course in January, 1911.

Large horse barn photograph, original barns built in 1912 on the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus

UA-43, PB Box 24; Folder 3
File
1912

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Two 1915 Nova Scotia Agricultural College junior year English literature tests

UA-43, Box 1, Folder 30
File
1915

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Photograph of the 1915 short course participants at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, PB Box 10, Folder 9
File
1915

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

File contains a b&w group picture of Nova Scotia Agricultural College students enrolled in a short course in January 5-15, 1915.

1915 tables of dates of sowing, plowing and working plans of vegetable plots for the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, Box 4, Folder 20
File
1915

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

File contains tables of dates of sowing, plowing, and working plans of vegetables plots for the 1915 season on the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus. Created by James Allan, Superintendent of Horticulture.

1915 exhibition vegetable plot plan at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus

UA-43, Box 4, Folder 17
File
1915

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Glenn Stephen Ells exams

MS-14-47, MS-14, Box 134, Folder 5
File
December 1913 - March 1915

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.

Ells, Glenn Stephens

1915 graduating class of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, OVR PB Box 11, Folder 9
File
1915

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

File contains a photograph of Nova Scotia Agricultural College faculty and graduating students in 1915.

1916 list of perennials grown at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, Box 4, Folder 19
File
1916

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Photocopied 1916 newspaper article re. Nova Scotia government agricultural policy

UA-43, Box 2, Folder 20
File
1916

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

File contains a photocopy of a 9 June 1916 news item from The Pictou Advocate written by Robert H. MacKay, R. Henry Graham, and Robert M. MacGregor, "The Farmers Candidates," entitled "The Policy of the Government in Respect to AGRICULTURE is Centralized at the Provincial College and Farm at Truro."

The value of field and orchard crops in Nova Scotia 1923

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 1, Folder 55
File
1923

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This file contains 5 textual records, which consists of a research article, along with accompanying work which include newspaper article, research table, and correspondences. These records were written by Dr, Melville Cumming in 1923.

The value of field and orchard crops in Nova Scotia 1924

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 1, Folder 56
File
1924

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This file contains 4 textual records, which consists of a research article, along with accompanying work which include newspaper article, research table, and a correspondence. These records were written by Dr, Melville Cumming in 1924.

Melville Cumming articles

MS-14-1, MS-14 OVR Box 1, Folder 11
File
1919-1926

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

File contains two articles written by Nova Scotia Agricultural College principal Melville Cumming on the Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture and an article prepared for MacDonald College Magazine.

Cumming articles related to farming and agriculture

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 1, Folder 19
File
[1905?]-[1927?]

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

File contains four articles by Melville Cumming on farming, farm life, and agriculture.

Melville Cumming articles

MS-14-1, MS-14 OVR Box 2, Folder 18
File
1911 & 1927

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

File contains two articles written by Nova Scotia Agricultural College principal Melville Cumming, one from May 1911 published in MacDonald College Magazine, "The Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Truro, N.S.", and one from 1927 for "The Herald" entitled "The Nova Scotia Agricultural College".

Photograph of attendees of the 1928 Canadian Society of Technical Agriculturists meeting

UA-43, AV8 Drawer 5, Folder 2
File
1928

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

1933 graduating class of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, OVR PB Box 10, Folder 16
File
1933

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

File contains a b&w photograph of 1933 Nova Scotia Agricultural College graduating class.

The foundation of Nova Scotia Agriculture College / by C.E. Thompson

UA-43, Box 3, Folder 6
File
1932-1933

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Correspondence to E.I. Hancock from Robin Phillips, District Veterinary Inspector. Feb. 1, 1934.

UA-43, Box 2, Folder 6
File
Feb. 1, 1934

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

1936 graduating class of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, OVR PB Box 10, Folder 6
File
1936

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

File contains a b&w photograph of the 1936 graduating class of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College.

Photographs of the South Side Baddeck, etc. Garden Club Show, 1938, "Club work"

MS-14-8, PB Box 25, Folder 13
File
1938

Part of Canadian agriculture collection

File contains photographs of the 1938 South Side Baddeck, etc. Garden Club Show, 1938, "Club work". People and individuals are depicted in front of tables of fruits and vegetables and plants on exhibit. Also featured are groups of people in a field where they appear to be showing cattle, beef or dairy.

Community Development / William Saxby Blair

UA-43, Box 2, Folder 2
File
1912-1938

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

File contains a report titled "Community development" by William Saxby Blair. Blair was the first supervisor of the Experimental Farm in Kentville, Nova Scotia from its creation in 1912 until his retirement in 1938.

The curriculum and the rural schools of Nova Scotia / Alexander Laidlaw

UA-43, Box 2, Folder 7
File
1942

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Memorandum by the [Nova Scotia] Interdepartmental Committee on Agricultural Education on adult education in the field of agriculture in 1943

UA-43, Box 1, Folder 3
File
1943

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Meeting minutes from 1943 from the Committee on Co-operation and Co-ordination

UA-43, Box 2, Folder 5
File
1943

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Account journal and letter of Charles Tupper Logan

MS-2-38, SF Box 15, Folder 4
File
1926-1928, 1943

File consists of one journal of daily accounts (1926-1928) and a letter of appointment to the School Board of Cumberland County (1943).

Logan, Charles Tupper, 1867-1961

Memorandums and correspondence and various records from 1943 related to the Canadian Legion War Services Inc. Educational Services

UA-43, Box 1, Folder 2
File
1943

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Meeting minutes, memorandums, and various records related to agricultural education

UA-43, Box 1, Folder 1
File
1942-1944

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Poultry plucking machine patent

MS-14-43, MS-14, Box 134, Folder 3
File
1944

File contains a poultry plucking machine patent that was issued on July 4th, 1944 to Angus Edward Banting, Truro, NS. Banting signed all his rights, title and interest of the invention over to the Department of Agriculture and Marketing of the Province of Nova Scotia.

Banting, Angus

Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus buildings and landscapes photographs taken in 1930 and 1946.

UA-43, PB Box 20, Folder 1
File
1930 & 1946

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Text of valedictory by Keith Russell for the May 1946 graduation commencement ceremony held at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, Box 1, Folder 16
File
May, 1946

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

1947 advanced farm class of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, OVR PB Box 18, Folder 1
File
1947

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

File contains a b&w photograph of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College advanced farm class in 1947.

Photographs of Ayrshire field day [at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College] in 1948

UA-43, PB Box 23, Folder 24
File
1940 or 1948

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

File contains two photographs of the Ayrshire field day [at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College] in 1948, one photograph has inscribed on the back: "Micmac [sp?]" Shubenacadie, [sp?]

1948-1949 farm classes at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, PB Box 20, Folder 14, Items 1-4
File
1948-1949

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

File contains Nova Scotia Agricultural College farm class photos from 1948-1949. Photo taken outside of a wooden shingled building with pane windows. Photos have been cut and reattached as composites originally. Staples have been removed for preservation.

1948-1949 farm classes at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, PB Box 2, Folder 41, Items 1-2
File
1948-1949

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

File contains Nova Scotia Agricultural College farm class photos from 1948-1949. Photo taken outside of a wooden shingled building with pane windows. Photos have been cut and reattached as composites originally. Staples have been removed for preservation.

Nova Scotia Agricultural College E.S. Archibald Testimonial Scholarship 1950 correspondence and receipt