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A boy from Cherry Hill / Garth Coffin

  • MS-14-62, SPC S 584.52 C64 2020
  • Item
  • 2020
Item is "A boy from Cherry Hill" by Garth Coffin, former principal of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Truro, Nova Scotia. A Boy From Cherry Hill is a story of a lad who grew up in a warm and loving family on a small farm in Prince Edward Island, Canada. It recounts his experiences and highlights his good fortune through receiving the Eaton Agricultural Scholarship, attending university in both Canada and the U.S. and successful pursuit of a series of career opportunities leading back to the Nova Scotia Agricultural College (NSAC) where his university studies began. Along the way, the memoir that spans eight decades includes international work and personal interests of the boy from Cherry Hill.

Milford W. Pierce fonds

  • MS-14-63
  • Fonds
  • 1883-1913
Fonds contains books, textbooks and government documents, and eight classroom notebooks kept by Milford Pierce during his studies at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College (1905-1907), as well as a book dating to his year at Macdonald College (1912-1913).

Nova Scotia Agricultural College class of 1942 students in a wooden fenced enclosure

Item is a photograph of 8 Nova Scotia Agricultural College class of 1942 students, possibly instructors, standing in a wooden fenced enclosure looking at a pig; there are two men with pieces of wood in their hands, four men with books under their arms, all wearing bowler hats.

Nova Scotia Agricultural College students, 1942-1943

Item is a photograph of 10 Nova Scotia Agricultural College students posed outdoors in front of Cumming Hall or the Science Building. They are dressed warmly. Annotated on reverse: “Back row – Left to Right Stuart Westcott, William Chaft, Charles Ash “Standing at back”. Front Row – Left to Right: David Milligan, Emerson Hennigar, Ronald Gillespie, Arthur Perlin, Augustine Joy, Vernon Heighton, Steven Tucker.

Photograph of four students holding beef cattle at the 1944 College Show at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

Item is a photograph of four students wearing white jackets and dark pants. They are outside holding beef cattle at the 1944 College Show at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College; one student has a ribbon pinned to their chest. The event was also called the Winter show, or later College Royal. The event allowed students to showcase their exhibition skills of showmanship and judging.

Photograph of two students holding horses at the 1944 College Show at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

Item is a photograph of two students holding horses at the 1944 College Show at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College. The event was also called the Winter show, or later College Royal. The event allowed students to showcase their exhibition skills of showmanship and judging.

Photographs of Cumming Hall

Items are copies of photographs and negatives of Cumming Hall. There is bare grass, leaves are still on the trees, three windows are open on the upper floor. There are bushes and shrubbery obstructing, or covering, the lower windows on the front the building. The addition to the back that now houses Alumni Theater can be seen. In one print the number "BL-365" is written in white ink in the lower right hand corner.

Photograph of Cumming Hall with cars parked in front of the building

Item is a photograph of Cumming Hall. There is bare grass and leaves are still on the trees, and cars parked in front of the building. The photograph was taken from the street and there are flag poles out front and Jenkins dining Hall can be seen to the right of the building.
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