Archives Catalogue

File contains three photographs, two of E.L. Eaton with the wooden chains and board he carved and mounted and one close up photograph of the board with wooden chains. The photographs were taken in 1983 of the work done in 1981.

Agricultural correspondence collection

MS-14-7
Collection
1881-1979

Collection contains correspondence and an article, some are from Nova Scotia Agricultural College principals, or faculty, topics cover early education, the Canadian fruit trade, and trotting.

Correspondence to Dr. [Herbert] MacRae from L.T. [Lyman] Chapman

MS-14-7, MS-14, Box 5, Folder 4
Item
April 30, 1979

Part of Agricultural correspondence collection

Correspondence written by Charles Tupper re: the Canadian Fruit Trade

MS-14-7, MS-14, Box 5, Folder 5
Item
Aug. 18, 1886

Part of Agricultural correspondence collection

Tupper, Charles, Sir, 1821-1915

Correspondence to the editor by Sir J.W. [John William] Dawson re: early education published in the Companion

MS-14-7, MS-14, Box 5, Folder 6
Item
May 7, 1897

Part of Agricultural correspondence collection

Correspondence from J.S. Bubar, and an article about Sir William Dawson

MS-14-7, MS-14, Box 5, Folder 7
File
1974

Part of Agricultural correspondence collection

File contains a letter from J.S. Bubar, Head of the Department of Plant Science, Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Jan. 25, 1974. Also included in an article on Sir William Dawson.

Correspondence from J.S. Bubar (head of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College's Department of Plant Science) to Dr. Don MacNeil (Nova Scotia Institute of Agrologists)

MS-14-7, MS-14, Box 5, Folder 7, Item 1
Item
Jan. 25, 1974

Part of Agricultural correspondence collection

Bubar, John Stephen

Article on Sir William Dawson

MS-14-7, MS-14, Box 5, Folder 7, Item 2
Item
(ca. 1900s)

Part of Agricultural correspondence collection

Correspondence from William T. Withers to Marcelle Tupper re: trotting horses

MS-14-7, MS-14, Box 5, Folder 8
Item
Oct. 31, 1881

Part of Agricultural correspondence collection

Correspondence to Marcelle Tupper from J.H. Steiner, Secretary of the American Trotting Register Association, Chicago, Ill.

MS-14-7, MS-14, Box 5, Folder 9
Item
Aug. 23, 1901

Part of Agricultural correspondence collection

Alex Georgallas agricultural special collections books

MS-14-78
Fonds
1858-1923

Collection contains three special collections books related to agriculture written in the early 20th century.

Elements of agriculture

MS-14-78 SPC S 531 F7 1918
Item
1918

Part of Alex Georgallas agricultural special collections books

Successful farming

MS-14-78 SPC S 501 R46 1900
Item
1900

Part of Alex Georgallas agricultural special collections books

Elementary agriculture and nature study

MS-14-78 SPC S 531 B758 1909 c.4
Item
1909

Part of Alex Georgallas agricultural special collections books

Canadian agriculture collection

MS-14-8
Collection
[1900?]-[1999?]

Collection contains textual records, reports, and photographs related to Canadian agriculture. Topics include the development of agriculture in Canada, the banning of pesticides, the agricultural industry, exhibitions and garden clubs.

Development of a data processing strategy for the provincial government departments located in Truro, Nova Scotia / S.M. Katz

MS-14-8, Box 221, Folder 15
Item
March 1982

Part of Canadian agriculture collection

Item was prepared for : Department of Government Services, Province of Nova Scotia.
Purpose of this study was to provide an information system strategy to satisfy the known current and future needs of the government organizations located in Truro Nova Scotia :
The Nova Scotia Farm Loan Board,
Nova Scotia College of Agriculture,
The Department of Agriculture and Marketing,
The Nova Scotia Teacher's College and the
Department of Lands and Forests

Summary minutes of 1984 annual meeting of the Canadian Agricultural Services Coordinating Committee, Ottawa

MS-14-8, Box 221, Folder 16
Item
May 14, 1984

Part of Canadian agriculture collection

On the banning of pesticides / author unknown

MS-14-8, MS-14, Box 4, Folder 3
Item
[ca. 1970s]

Part of Canadian agriculture collection

Proposals regarding the development of Canadian agriculture submitted by Ministers of Agriculture of the Canadian Provinces to the Honourable H.A. Olson, Minister of Agriculture, Ottawa

MS-14-8, MS-14, Box 4, Folder 4
Item
Nov. 22, 1971

Part of Canadian agriculture collection

Photograph of Vera Avery

MS-14-8, PB Box 25, Folder 10
Item
[1900-1960]

Part of Canadian agriculture collection

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.

Photograph of G.K. Samis, Southdale, St. Thomas, Secretary Manager of the Canadian Turkey Federation

MS-14-8, PB Box 25, Folder 9
Item
[1948-1954]

Part of Canadian agriculture collection

Photograph of barley grown on farm of Alex McKay, esq. Lyons Brook, Pictou, County

MS-14-8, PB Box 37, Folder 8
Item
1923

Part of Canadian agriculture collection

Item is a photograph of barley grown on the farm of Alex McKay, esq. Lyons Brook, Pictou, Co. 1923. May have belonged to W.A. McKay (dairying) who graduated from the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in 1914. McKay. Depicted is Barley from a part of a field to which Malagash [Nova Scotia] potash land salt was applied and from a part of the same field with the same treatment except no Malagash potash land salt was applied.

Generator propeller

MS-14-86 - Museum / SLC exhibit case
Item
[1900-1999]

Item is a wooden generator propeller.

Norman MacLeod's collection of egg production and laying hen clippings and booklets

MS-14-87, MS-14, Box 288, Folder 9
Item
[192-]

Item is a hardcover notebook with loose and pasted newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and small booklets related to egg production and laying hens from the 1920s.

Atlantic Canada farm and rural life collection

MS-14-9
Collection
1851-2004

Collection consists of material related to farm and rural life in Atlantic Canada. Including historical accounts of farm life and agricultural management in Atlantic Canada. Series include graphic materials, maps, surveys, and sketches of farms in Nova Scotia, and reports and diaries related to farm and rural life in Atlantic Canada. Series are arranged alphabetically and range between 1851-2004.

Sketch of some coal and iron areas in Kemptown, Colchester County, Nova Scotia

MS-14-9, AV 8, Drawer 1, Folder 15
Item
October 4th, 1905

Part of Atlantic Canada farm and rural life collection

Item is a sketch of a survey of some coal and iron areas in Kemptown, Colchester County, Nova Scotia. It was surveyed for A.H. Learnment, et al., October 4th, 1905 by J.K. Eaton D.C.L.S. Scale 1":40.00 chains. Also shown are adjacent properties of J.H. McKay, Maple Leaf Prospecting Co., and J. McNaughton.

Sketch of property lying on the North side of the Intervale Road near I.R.C. Railway [Truro, Nova Scotia]

MS-14-9, AV 8, Drawer 1, Folder 17
Item
June 27, 1911

Part of Atlantic Canada farm and rural life collection

Item is a sketch of the properties lying on the North side of the Intervale Road near I.R.C. Railway crossing known as the Allan Loughead field [Truro, Nova Scotia]. Surveyed for the Hon. W.F. McCurdy, of Baddeck, Cape Breton. Truro, N.S. June 27, 1911 [by] J.K. Eaton, D.C.L. Surveyor. Scale 1":30'. Also shown are the property of Gov. Experimental Farm, Queen Street East or Intervale Road, the center of Logan's Gully, and the proposed new street. Adjacent properties are Miller, Mrs. Maud Work, Mrs. Adelaide Nowlin, and Wm.E. Logan. There is a handwritten note in pencil under the Surveyors label.

Double sided survey, Truro, Nova Scotia

MS-14-9, AV 8, Drawer 2, Folder 7
Item
June 3, 1905 - September 11, 1906

Part of Atlantic Canada farm and rural life collection

Item is a double sided sketch of surveys. One side of the page has on the right, in ink, a sketch of Truro Market Property, surveyed for John A. McKenzie & Sons, June 3, 1905. Scale 1: 20 chains. The McKenzie house and Market are on Havelock street and Prince Street. Also shown are edging adjacent properties Allan Loughead and G.O. Fulton on Inglis Street. There is a blank space in the middle of the page and on the left is depicted Beaver Dam Brook passing through the properties of James Hennigar, Henry Miller, McLearn, Patterson, McCulloch, and nearby Dodds, Underwood, Robert Barr and Scott, and Russel Brook. There are pencil annotations as well. The other side shows sketched in ink the property of T.G. McMullen, Prince Street East, Truro, Nova Scotia. The ink notation says "known as the Craig Hat Factory. September 11, 1906. By J.K. Eaton, D.C.L.S. Scale 1":30'". Shows Prince Street crossing Munroe Street, along Brook to W. Archibald's line, the properties of Estate Samuel Rettie, Alvin Fulmore's lot. In pencil: "Sketch of same surveys made at Debert Station, for Charles [McElmon?] January 12, 1906, this sketch made May 30th, 1906.

Sketch of a woodlot in Truro, Nova Scotia

MS-14-9, AV 8, Drawer 4, Folder 12
Item
December 26th, 1903

Part of Atlantic Canada farm and rural life collection

Item is a sketch of a woodlot Truro, Nova Scotia, surveyed for Indian Department, Ottawa, December 26th, 1903, by J.K. Eaton, D.C.L. Surveyor. It also shows the lands of Thomas B. Smith, R.H. Smith, and Henry Waller. The scale is 1":400 chains.

Sketch of farm at Valley Station [Nova Scotia]

MS-14-9, AV 9, Drawer 6, Folder 12
Item
January 19, 1899

Part of Atlantic Canada farm and rural life collection

Item is a sketch of a farm at Valley Station [Nova Scotia], surveyed for Mary Christie, January 19, 1899, by J.K. Eaton, D.C.L.S.

Field notebooks and soil profile descriptions in Nova Scotia

MS-14-9, MS-14 Box 299, MS-14 Box 300, Folders 1-6
File
1936-[1969]

Part of Atlantic Canada farm and rural life collection

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.

List of premiums offered by the New Brunswick Society for the Encouragement of Agriculture, Home Manufactures and Commerce

MS-14-9, MS-14 Box 4, Folder 5
Item
April 10, 1851

Part of Atlantic Canada farm and rural life collection

Circular No. 4: For the use of persons who propose settling or investing in the province of New Brunswick, Canada / Office of Agent-General for New Brunswick

MS-14-9, MS-14 Box 4, Folder 6
Item
[19-]

Part of Atlantic Canada farm and rural life collection

Reproduction of Cape Breton and the Western Harvest Excursions 1890-1928 / A.A. MacKenzie

MS-14-9, MS-14 Box 4, Folder 7
Item
1985

Part of Atlantic Canada farm and rural life collection

Item is a reproduction of Cape Breton and the Western Harvest Excursions 1890-1928 / A.A. MacKenzie, from "Cape Breton at 200: Historical Essays in Honor of the Island’s Bicentennial 1785 – 1985", pages 71-83. Published by University College of Cape Breton Press, Sydney, N.S. Original dated April 10, 1851, Fredericton, N.B.

Typed transcription of the farm diary of Zabud MacKay (Malagash)

MS-14-9, MS-14 Box 5, Folder 10
Item
April 12 - 0ct. 27, 1900

Part of Atlantic Canada farm and rural life collection

Earltown, Nova Scotia : a profile of a 19th century rural community [report]

MS-14-9, MS-14 Box 5, Folder 11
Item
[19-]

Part of Atlantic Canada farm and rural life collection

Memoirs of John Murphy (cream pick-up driver)

MS-14-9, MS-14 Box 5, Folder 12
Item
[19-]

Part of Atlantic Canada farm and rural life collection

Excerpts of King's County individual and family biographical sketches

MS-14-9, MS-14 Box 5, Folder 13
File
[19-]

Part of Atlantic Canada farm and rural life collection

Painting of Balmoral Grist Mill

MS-14-9, OVR PB Box 11, Folder 8
Item
[19-]

Part of Atlantic Canada farm and rural life collection

Photograph of the Bible Hill School Garden in Bible Hill, Nova Scotia

MS-14-9, PB Box 26, Folder 3
Item
1914

Part of Atlantic Canada farm and rural life collection

Item is a photograph of the Bible Hill School Garden in Bible Hill, Nova Scotia. The Bible Hill School was located on College Road in Bible Hill where the woodsman lot is located on the campus of the Dalhousie Agricultural Campus, formerly the Nova Scotia Agricultural College. The photograph is dated August 6, 1914. Initials "K.B.". Men, women and children working in the garden with hand tools, school featured in the background. Notation on the reverse of the photograph "Bible Hill School Garden. Truro NS. Aug 6. 1914."

Photograph of a family and horses standing in front of a house