Archives Catalogue

Photograph of the newly constructed Trueman House (student residence) at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, PB Box 20, Folder 6, Item 15
Item
[1960?]-[1969?]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Item is a photograph in a series of 8, of the newly constructed student residence Trueman House at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in the 1960s. They were taken from various angles of the front of the building facing quad. There were late 1960’s model cars parked at front of building. 6 seem to have been taken in the summer; 2 appear to have been taken in the winter (no snow).

Photograph of the newly constructed Trueman House (student residence) at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, PB Box 20, Folder 6, Item 16
Item
[1960?]-[1969?]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Item is a photograph in a series of 8, of the newly constructed student residence Trueman House at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in the 1960s. They were taken from various angles of the front of the building facing quad. There were late 1960’s model cars parked at front of building. 6 seem to have been taken in the summer; 2 appear to have been taken in the winter (no snow).

Photograph of 5 men standing in front of a greenhouse in 1966, on the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus

UA-43, OVR PB Box 11, Folder 10
File
1966

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Speech entitled 'Agricultural development of Cape Breton Island'

UA-43, Box 1, Folder 28
File
before 1966

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Nova Scotia Agricultural College college herd summaries

UA-43, Box 2, Folder 15
File
[1965?]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

File contains hand-written summaries of the animal herds at Nova Scotia Agricultural College [ca. 1900] to 1965. Records describe breeds of cattle: Guernsey, Jersey, Ayrshires, Herefords, and Holsteins; breeds of sheep: Scottish Blackface, Shropshire, and Hampshire; and horses: light horses, and Clydesdales. These descriptions include when and how many were purchased, herd book and individual animals name and numbers, and stud book records. The summaries also include details of two disease events that affected herd-wide health including 'Bovine Tuberculosis' and 'contagious abortion'. Mention is made of the conferring of a 'Superior Breeding Certificate' on Farm Superintendent, Archibald MacMillan. The summaries also make mention of the Nova Scotia Animal Breeders Coop Ltd with reference specifically to dairy cattle.

Photocopied 1965 newspaper article re. Opening of Provincial Agricultural College: at Bible Hill, Truro, NS

UA-43, Box 1, Folder 14
File
Feb. 15, 1965

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

File contains a reprint of a newspaper article in the Truro Daily News on Feb. 15, 1965. The original article was titled "Opening of Provincial Agricultural College: at Bible Hill, Truro, NS Tuesday, Feb. 14, 1905".

A history of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College / by Kenneth Cox ; foreword by W.A. Jenkins

UA-43, Box 3, Folder 3
Item
Sept. 1965

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Cox, Kenneth

Report of the Royal Commission to Investigate the Operation of the Provincial Laboratory at the Agricultural College at Truro by R.E. Ingis, Commissioner, May 22, 1963

UA-43, Box 3, Folder 4
File
May 22, 1963

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Photographs of animals at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

Subseries
[1917] - 1961

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Subseries consists of photographs of animals owned by the Nova Scotia Agricultural College.

Photograph of cattle in a field, [at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College] 1961

UA-43, PB Box 40, Folder 23
Item
Summer 1961

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Report of the Committee to study the Farm Courses of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College / Mr. C.E. Henry, 1960

UA-43, Box 1, Folder 5
File
1960

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Report of the Committee to study the Farm Courses of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College / Kenneth Cox, and other related records

UA-43, Box 1, Folder 8
File
1960

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

File contains a final draft titled "Report of the Committee to study the Farm Courses of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College", by Mr. Kenneth Cox in 1960. Also included are a draft copy, meeting minutes, correspondence, farm class tour survey, recommendations, and other related materials.

Cox, Kenneth

Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus 1959 aerial photograph

UA-43, PB Box 11, Folder 3
File
1959

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Aerial photographs of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

Subseries
1959

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Subseries contains one photograph of an aerial view of the Nova Scotia Agricultural campus, taken in 1959.

Photograph of Ayrshire cow, "Annie Laurie", owned by the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, OVR PB Box 11, Folder 5
Item
[1905?]-[1959?]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Item is a black and white photograph of the famous Ayrshire Cow "Annie Laurie", twice winner of first prize in milk test Guelph Ontario, owned by the [Nova Scotia] Agricultural College, Truro, Nova Scotia (45 x 52 cm). No date.

1957 degree class of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, PB Box 20, Folder 13, Item 11
Item
1957

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Item is a photograph of students of the 1957 degree class of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College. There are 10 men in two rows in suit jackets facing the camera. The front row is sitting.

1957 degree [or diploma?] class of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, PB Box 20, Folder 13, Item 12
Item
1957

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Item is a photograph of students of the 1957 degree [or diploma?] class of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College. There are 17 men in three rows wearing suit jackets facing the camera. The front row is sitting.

1957 advanced farm diploma class of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, PB Box 20, Folder 13, Item 2
Item
1957

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Item is a photograph of students of the 1957 advanced farm diploma class of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College. There are 6 men in suit jackets facing the camera.

1956 general class of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, PB Box 19, Folder 1
File
1956

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

File contains a b&w photograph of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College general class students in 1956.

Nova Scotia Agricultural College United Students Council 1922 to 1956 meeting minutes

UA-43, Box 2, Folder 12
File
1922–1956

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

1956 farm class of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, PB Box 20, Folder 13, Item 13
Item
1956

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Item is a photograph of students of the 1956 farm class of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College. There are 5 men in suit jackets facing the camera.

1956 degree class of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, PB Box 20, Folder 10
File
1956

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

File contains a photograph of the all-male Nova Scotia Agricultural College degree class of 1956 in three rows for a total of 19 people.

1955 first year degree class of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, PB Box 20, Folder 11
File
1955

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

File contains a black and white photograph of the 1955 first year degree class of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College. There are 30 students and people (29 men and 1 woman), mainly wearing double-breasted suits on the steps of a building at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College.

1954 first year farm class of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, PB Box 20, Folder 12
File
1954

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

File contains a black and white photo of the 1954 farm class. Thirteen men are posed in three rows looking at the camera.

1951 farm class of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, PB Box 2, Folder 40, Item 1
Item
1951

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

1951 farm class of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, PB Box 2, Folder 40, Item 2
Item
1951

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

1951 advanced farm class of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, PB Box 2, Folder 40, Item 3
Item
1951

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

1951? class A of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, PB Box 20, Folder 13, Item 1
Item
[1951?]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Item is a photograph of the 1951? class A of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College. There are 12 men in 2 rows facing camera smiling, the front row is seated.

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

UA-43, Box 2, Folder 1
File
1950

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Photograph of ditching machine and two men installing drainage tiles

UA-43, PB Box 21, Folder 1, Item 1
Item
[1940?]-[1949?]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Photograph of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus facing south-east, in view are Cumming Hall, the horticulture building, greenhouses, and original barns (where quad/library and Cox building are now)

UA-43, PB Box 21, Folder 1, Item 4
Item
[1940?]-[1949?]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

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.

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?]

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.

Nova Scotia Agricultural College photograph of the flowerbeds near the original science building before 1946

UA-43, PB Box 20, Folder 1, Item 2
Item
[before 1946]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

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

Photograph of the view over Truro from campus featuring homes and farmland in 1946

UA-43, PB Box 21, Folder 1, Item 2
Item
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

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

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

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

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

Photograph of short horn field day, [at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College] June 26, 1942

UA-43, PB Box 40, Folder 20
Item
June 26, 1942

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Item is a photograph of two short horns on short horn field day, [at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College] June 26, 1942.

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.

1936 graduating class of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College