Archives Catalogue

Contract for the construction of the Head House to the greenhouse on the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus

UA-43, OVR, Box 1, Folder 10
File
November 5, 1913

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

File contains the contract for the construction of the headhouse to greenhouse at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College between W.K. Murray (contractor) and Department of Public Works including modifications to specifications. The contract is dated November 5, 1913. Signed by "? Cobb" Architect; "E. H. Armstrong" Commissioner for Public Works and Mines; and "W.K. Murray" contractor.

Correspondence re. construction of the Head House to the greenhouse on the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus

UA-43, Box 2, Folder 17
File
1913

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

File contains correspondence and a document regarding the construction of the headhouse to greenhouse at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in November 1913.

Athletics - photograph of 1914 Nova Scotia Agricultural College hockey team

UA-43, PB Box 37, Folder 5
Item
1914

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Item is a photograph of Nova Scotia Agricultural College, also known as NSAC or Aggies, 1914 hockey team.

1914 senior class and staff of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, OVR PB Box 34, Folder 3, Item 16
Item
1914

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Photograph of main classroom in the Nova Scotia College of Agriculture Science Building, circa 1914

UA-43, PB Box 41, Folder 2, Item 1
Item
[1914]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Postcards of Bible Hill and Salmon River, Truro, N.S., and the Nova Scotia Agricultural College and a reproduction of the postcard

UA-43, PB Box 39, Folder 9
Item
1912-1914

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

File includes 2 postcards with a view of Bible Hill and Salmon River, Truro, N.S.. Including the Nova Scotia Agricultural College, one can see the top of Cumming Hall, the water tower, and electric wind mill generator. Presumably sent from NSAC students, post-dated 1912 & 1914, included as well is a reproduction of the postcard. One card was sent from Truro, Sept 13, 1912, from [Marg?] to Miss C. Maude Pines, Waterville, Kings Co. Nova Scotia. The other was sent from Nuttby, Sept 26, 1914 from [Eff?] to Miss Ruth E. Windrow, The Willows, New Ross, Lun [sp.] N.S.

1914 senior class and staff of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, AV8, Drawer 6, Folder 6
File
1914

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

1914 senior class and staff of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, OVR PB Box 17, Folder 6
File
1914

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

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.

1915 class of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, AV8 Drawer 6, Folder 7
File
1915

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

1915 class of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, OVR PB Box 34, Folder 3, Item 15
Item
1915

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

1916 class of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, OVR PB Box 34, Folder 3, Item 14
Item
1916

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

1916 class of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, AV8 Drawer 6, Folder 8
File
1916

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

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

Nova Scotia Agricultural College horticultural and landscape architecture records

Subseries
1913–1916

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Subseries contains records relating to horticulture and landscape architecture of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus. Records include the working plan of plots, list of perennials, and tables of dates of sowing, plowing and working in vegetables plots for seasons between 1913-1916.

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."

Written account of Henry Ford's donation to the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, Box 2, Folder 21
File
1917

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

File contains an account, unsigned but believed to have been written by Dr. Melville Cumming, in regards to the donation of a tractor by Henry Ford to the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in 1917. Mr Ford had previously met then Premier the Honorable George H Murray and was introduced to Melville Cumming, Secretary for Agriculture and Principal of NSAC (1905-1927). There are annotations on the first page "Thanks very much - Len" and on the second page "He was here I understand on a trout fishing exhibition (expedition?)."

1917 class of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, AV8 Drawer 5, Folder 9
File
1917

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

1917 class of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, OVR PB Box 34, Folder 3, Item 13
Item
1917

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Athletics - photograph of 1918 Nova Scotia Agricultural College hockey team

UA-43, PB Box 37, Folder 6
Item
1918

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Item is a photograph of Nova Scotia Agricultural College, also known as NSAC or Aggies, 1918 hockey team.

1918 class of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, AV8 Drawer 6, Folder 2
File
1918

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

1918 class of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, OVR PB Box 34, Folder 3, Item 12
Item
1918

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

1919 class of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, AV8 Drawer 6, Folder 9
Item
1919

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Nova Scotia Agricultural College superintendent of grounds and gardens annual reports

UA-43, Box 4, Folders 2-7
File
1913-1919

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Files contain the first, third, sixth, and seventh (1913-1919) annual reports submitted by Peter F. J. Shaw, the superintendent of ground and gardens and horticulturist for the Nova Scotia Agricultural College.

1919 class of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, OVR PB Box 34, Folder 3, Item 11
Item
1919

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Photograph of Collins Horticultural building with the old science building behind it

UA-43, PB Box 41, Folder 4, Item 1
Item
July 11, 1920

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

1920 class of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, OVR PB Box 34, Folder 3, Item 10
Item
1920

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Photograph of Nova Scotia College of Agriculture, prior to 1920

UA-43, PB Box 41, Folder 2, Item 3
Item
[1905?]-[1920?]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

College days 1921 / Ontario Agricultural College 1923

UA-43, AV8 Drawer 1, Folder 2
File
1921

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

1921 class of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, OVR PB Box 34, Folder 3, Item 9
Item
1921

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

1921 class of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, AV8 Drawer 5, Folder 8
File
1921

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Panoramic photograph of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus taken in 1921

UA-43, AV8 Drawer 7, Folder 10
File
1921

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

File contains a panoramic photographic print of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College from 1921. Printed on the back : "Mrs. Mathew [sic Matthew] Frizzell". Removed a piece of a receipt taped to the back of the photograph during processing; it may have been used to indicate cropping when an enlargement was made to hang behind the circulation desk of the MacRae Library. The receipt and description card are attached to the accession form in the case file. The blown up panoramic shot still hangs in the staff work area on Level 1 of the MacRae Library as of April 2020.

Athletics - photograph of 1921-22 Nova Scotia Agricultural College basketball team