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 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.
File includes photographs of people and buildings from the Nova Scotia Agricultural College and the Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture, the 1975 NSAC autumn assembly, and 1976-1979 Young Farmers Conference featuring young farmers who were NSAC graduates.
File contains a report created by Jean Pell for her CBC radio drama on everyday farm life entitled “The Gillans of Sunnybrae Farm” in the 1950’s and 1960’s. It also contains "Role of CBC in Agricultural Extension", by J.D. Johnson ; a draft copy of a script for the performance of: “The Gillans of Sunnybrae Farm: An informal History of Maritime Agriculture” written by Jackie Yarn [1994?].
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 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.
Item is a photograph album of the Digby Horticulture project. There are aerials, harvesting, grading strawberries, and loading for transport from 1966-1968.
Series contains papers, correspondence, newspaper clippings, reproductions of articles, photographs, and signs created and collected by Gordon Kinsman during his research of berries, specifically strawberries, the strawberry industry, berry box making, and blueberries in Nova Scotia between 1891 and 1993.
File contains Gordon Kinsman's papers and records related to the Burgess Basket Company, Newport Station, and a reproduction of an article titled "Hardwood hard to find for new company" / E and M Burgess Enterprises (hants County) from "Forest Times" 5, November, 1991.
File contains records related to berries, and the berry industry in Nova Scotia. There is correspondence from Gordon Kinsman to Joleen dated March 8, 1991. There are photographs of berry boxes, baskets and crates used in Nova Scotia, various reports and also correspondence related to berry crops, locations in Nova Scotia, their management and practices, and equipment used. Also included is the History of the blueberry industry in Nova Scotia, black and white photographs of the blueberry industry from the 1970s, shipping box blueprints, cards and tags used in blueberry boxes exported to the United States, Boston and New York from the 1930s-1980s, and black and white and colour photographs of people picking and enjoying blueberries.
File contains correspondence from Gordon Kinsman to R.A. Murray re: the Digby Horticultural project, fruit and vegetable container catalogues, and reproductions of articles related to berry and apple packaging, topics cover strawberry and raspberry, and blueberry.
This file contains 5 publication relating to the sheep industry. It was published by Quebec's Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food between 1972-1983.
Series contains publications related to livestock issued from the provinces of Canada and countries outside the country between 1918-2003. It is arranged into two subseries, Other Provincial Governments of Canada and Other Governments Outside of Canada.
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.
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 contains publications related to agriculture and wildlife issued from the government of Nova Scotia between 1908-1999. There are two subseries, the N.S. Department of Agriculture & Marketing Nova Scotia and Miscellaneous Nova Scotia Departments.
Subseries contains 6 books that were published by miscellaneous departments of the Government of Nova Scotia relating to wildlife and sheep identification program between 1977-1990.
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