File contains 8 photographs of students from the classes of 1942 and 1943, and faculty or instructors, from the Nova Scotia Agricultural College. There are men on the steps of Cumming Hall or the Science Building (?), near wooden fenced enclosures, and wooden fences, as well as near a greenhouse on campus.
File contains two? b&w photographs of the NSAC Winter Show, held 23 March 1944, and a farm meeting held at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College around 1943-1944.
Citation: Anon. 1944. Canadian War Orders and Regulations 1944. Wartime Prices and Trade Board. Volume IV. Published under Authority of Order in Council P.C. 10793 of 26th November, 1942.
File contains a poultry plucking machine patent that was issued on July 4th, 1944 to Angus Edward Banting, Truro, NS. Banting signed all his rights, title and interest of the invention over to the Department of Agriculture and Marketing of the Province of Nova Scotia.
File contains a b&w photograph of Nova Scotia Farm Association meeting, held on January 16, 1944. Presumably held at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College. The Association changed its name to the Nova Scotia Federation of Agriculture in 1946.
File contains two? b&w photographs of the NSAC Winter Show, held 23 March 1944, and a farm meeting held at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College around 1943-1944.
File contains black and white photographs of Nova Scotia Agricultural College staff and Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture and Marketing staff in 1944.
File contains a 1944 revised edition of the Canadian Veterans land act and six issues of the Canadian Legion Educational Services publication series. The text on the back of the series instructs students enrolled in courses to carry their textbooks with them while traveling overseas. Upon arrival at their new stations, they were encouraged to promptly connect with the Education Officer or Naval Schoolmaster. They were intended to travel with soldiers during the peak of World War II. They provide powerful insight into the hopes and dreams these students had for their futures.
File contains a black-and-white mounted photograph of the 1945-1946 Nova Scotia Agricultural College hockey team, championship team of the Truro and district hockey league. Players; front row, left, Bob Doyle, Dave Gillespie, Vernon Reid, Gus Kinsman, Angie Gillis, Moe Kennie ; bck row, left, Hermie Fielding, Dan McFadden, Bud Elderkin, Vic Holms, Hugh MacLeod, Ray Kennedy, Jack Gammon, Wayne Parker (manager). Absent is Win Langille, coach and Ron Fielding, mascot.
File contains photographs of Provincial farm buildings and early Nova Scotia Agricultural College buildings, including the original science buildings from 1898-1932.
File contains photographs of School of Agriculture buildings, and early Nova Scotia Agricultural College buildings, including the original science buildings, one which stood from 1898-1932 and the other from 1914-1946.
File contains five volumes related to agriculture. Titles include: 1. A reproduction of "A catalogue of the whole of the live and dead farming stock comprising 13 young and active cart horses.... steam engine.... also part of the household furniture.... which will be sold by Messr. W. Brown & Co. on Tuesday and Thursday September 28th and 30th, 1880... by direction of the trustees of the late Mr. Lasenby, who are giving up the Farm at Michaelmas. No. 1078. At head of cover "Charteridge, Chesham" 2. Herb garden : seeds for your herb garden / by Beatrice A. Clark. With authoritative books on herbs, a bifold cardstock with seed samples. Published by the Cypress Press ca. 1937. 3. Rothamsted Experimental Station : guide to the experimental farm -- Lawes Agricultural Trust. 1947. 4. Genetics of some new type foxes / C.K. Gunn. 1945. Publication / Dominion of Canada, Dept. of Agriculture ; no. 768. Technical bulletin / Dominion of Canada, Dept. of Agriculture ; no. 53. 5. Flax / William Saunders, Canada Department of Agriculture. 1896. Original issued in series: Bulletin / Dept. of Agriculture, Central Experimental Farm ; no. 25.
File contains one photograph of the Collin's Horticulture building at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College with the old science building in the background. The science building burned down in 1947.
