Archives Catalogue

Fonds contains correspondence from Dr. Frederick Waldemar (Waldo) Walsh to Dr. A. H. Harrington, regarding the Fruit and Vegetable Marketing Co-operative Organization in Nova Scotia in 1963. There are two series, one for certificates of Dr. Walsh, and another series for photographs taken at different events such as 4H events, Department of Nova Scotia Agriculture and Marketing conferences, retirement gatherings, and schools, while Walsh was a professor of Animal Husbandry [at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College] and sheep and swine promoter. Photos were taken and collected between 1910-1963.

Walsh, Frederick Waldemar

Farm sprayers / D.T. Anderson and H.J. Mather

MS-14-REF, Box 2, Folder 48
File
1963

Part of Agricultural archives reference collection

Harry Brown fonds

MS-14-119
Fonds
1949-1963

Fonds contains records created and collected by Harry Brown related to sheep in Nova Scotia and Canada. There are two series', one in the Canadian Co-operative Wool Growers Limited, and the second includes records related to the exhibition and breeding of sheep, and Nova Scotia Sheep Breeders Association records. Records are meeting minutes, financial records, correspondence, and memorandums.

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

Farm machinery / Brian J. Bell

MS-14-REF, Box 2, Folder 30
Item
1963

Part of Agricultural archives reference collection

Equipment for cleaning brush from land

MS-14-REF, Box 2, Folder 32
Item
1963

Part of Agricultural archives reference collection

Disk plows / I.F. Reed

MS-14-REF, Box 2, Folder 35
Item
1963

Part of Agricultural archives reference collection

The national tillage machinery laboratory, Auburn, Alabama

MS-14-REF, Box 2, Folder 47
File
1963

Part of Agricultural archives reference collection

Materials handling for livestock feeding / John B. Dobie and Robert G. Curley

MS-14-REF, Box 2, Folder 31
Item
1963

Part of Agricultural archives reference collection

Dehorning / Anon. Published by the Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture and Marketing [pamphlet]

MS-14-REF, Box 11, Folder 17
Item
[1963?]

Part of Agricultural archives reference collection

Walter V. Grant fonds

MS-14-131
Fonds
1949-1963

Fonds consists of records that were collected by Walter V. Grant. They include a report on farming in Canada in 1949 and a series comprised of reports from the 1963 Nova Scotia Voluntary Economic Planning, Forestry Sector meetings.

Home Reading Course development collection - Division of Adult Education, Prince Edward Island

MS-14-132
Collection
1948-1963

Collection contains a folder titled "Home Reading Course - Division of Adult Education, Prince Edward Island". There are records and publications related to community development and extension work that seem to have been used to develop a home reading course. Several are authored by Hartwell Daley, and issued by the Division of Research, Department of Industry and Natural Resources, Prince Edward Island. Several publications are from the United Stated Department of Agriculture.

Photograph of Lloyd Palmer, and two other unidentified individuals

UA-43, PB Box 21, Folder 8
Item
June 4, 1964

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College photograph and audio visual collection

1963-1964 Sheep Producers' Association of Nova Scotia correspondence and reports

MS-14-22, MS-14, Box 38, Folder 4
File
1963-1964

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

Photograph of Maurice Woods presenting leg of lamb to Premier Stanfield

MS-14-22, PB Box 3, Folder 9
Item
1964

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

National Farm Radio Forum fonds

MS-14-34
Fonds
1937-1965

Fonds contains records about the National Radio Farm Forum, a national rural listening-discussion group project. Records relate to the operations of the Nova Scotia and New Brunswick regions and consist of pamphlets, scripts, correspondence, memos, newsletters, guides, National Secretaries report, annual reports from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick regions, and minutes from the regional and national meetings and conferences from 1937-1965. Also included is an account of the activity of the Earltown, Nova Scotia Farm Forum Radio Group from the period of 1961-1962.

National Radio Farm Forum sponsored by the Canadian Association for Adult Education, the Canadian Federation of Agriculture and CBC. Initially, this program was a dramatized discussion of farm problems in wartime, arranged in cooperation with the Canadian Federation of Agriculture, and the Canadian Association for Adult Education. Eventually, it evolved into discussions by individuals from various communities across the country. The program was developed by Orville Shugg and Neil Morrison.

Farm Radio Forum

Liquid manure storage and handling / J. Donald Gunn

MS-14-REF, Box 2, Folder 25
Item
1965

Part of Agricultural archives reference collection

1965 Sheep Producers' Association of Nova Scotia correspondence and reports

MS-14-22, MS-14, Box 38, Folder 5
File
1965

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

Lindwood Farms angus cattle

MS-4-135, Box 176, Folder 22
File
1965

Part of Oland and Son fonds

File includes photographs of the Aberdeen Atlantic Winter Fair.

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

Speech entitled 'Agricultural development of Cape Breton Island'

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

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

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

UA-43, PB Box 11, Folder 10
Item
1966

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College photograph and audio visual collection

Nova Scotia artificial insemination industry collection

MS-14-17
Collection
1846-1966

Collection contains records created by the early Artificial insemination industry in Nova Scotia, including original notebooks used by the first technician; also included were books on farming, shepherding, and the life of W.E. Gladstone.

1966 Sheep Producers' Association of Nova Scotia correspondence and reports

MS-14-22, MS-14, Box 38, Folder 6
File
1966

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

Development plans for farms in the North Shore area of Nova Scotia / J H Lovering

MS-14-REF, Box 24, Folder 8
File
1967

Part of Agricultural archives reference collection

1967 Sheep Producers' Association of Nova Scotia correspondence and reports

MS-14-22, MS-14, Box 38, Folder 7
File
1967

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

Technical & vocational training in Agriculture / by Dr. W.A. Jenkins, Principal, Nova Scotia Agricultural College [paper]

MS-14-42, Box 303, Folder 15
Item
June 5, 1968

Part of William (Bill) Angus Jenkins fonds

1968 Sheep Producers' Association of Nova Scotia correspondence and reports

MS-14-22, Box 38, Folder 8
File
1968

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

Photograph of Victor Aylward, of Windsor, Nova Scotia, and one of his Leicester sheep and Border Collie sheep dog in 1968

MS-14-22, PB Box 34, Folder 4
Item
1968

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

Item is a photograph of Victor Aylward, a well known sheep farmer of Cheviots and Leicester sheep.

Draft livestock development programme 1968-1973 / Ministry of Agriculture & Lands, Hope [Jamaica] [book]

MS-14-57, Box 138, Folder 13
Item
July, 1968

MS-14-66, Box 222, Folder 12
File
1965-1968

File contains textual records related to terracing crops in Nova Scotia that were created and collected by E.A. Olafson, Chief Conservationist, Atlantic Region. Records include correspondence, reports and publications.

Summary for Nova Scotia department of agriculture and marketing extension conference - Nappan - June 4-6,1968.

MS-14-REF, Box 13, Folder 3, Item 3
Item
1968

Part of Agricultural archives reference collection

Macintyre, T.M. 1968. management systems for beef cows project 52.01.18 - observations on cows kept in woods November 1967 to May 1968. Experimental farm, Nappan, N.S.

MS-14-REF, Box 13, Folder 3, Item 4
Item
1968

Part of Agricultural archives reference collection

Experimental and research station records

MS-14-REF, Box 13, Folder 3
File
1968

Part of Agricultural archives reference collection

Summary - field work, experimental farm, Nappan, 1968

MS-14-REF, Box 13, Folder 3, Item 2
Item
1968

Part of Agricultural archives reference collection

Lieutenant Colonel A. (Arthur) W. MacKenzie fonds

MS-14-40
Fonds
1946-1969

Fonds contains a transcript of the 1969 interview with Jack Hawkins and Lieutenant Colonel A. (Arthur) W. MacKenzie, former Minister of Agriculture for Nova Scotia and a photograph of MacKenzie from 1946.

MacKenzie, Arthur Whittier