Series contains photographs, documents, flyers, scripts, and audio recordings of special events, celebrations, and workshops at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College. Records relate to Founders day, anniversaries, exhibitions, dramas, open houses, commencements, etc. between 1928-2006.
Series contains minutes, financial records, correspondence, student lists, reports, banquet programs, and newspaper clippings from the Nova Scotia Agricultural College Alumni Association from 1905-1983.
Series contains records related to the Nova Scotia Grain Marketing Board, the Grain and Forage Commission, and the Forage Council, and their formation of a joint board . Records have been filed in backwards chronology
Series contains reproductions of meeting minutes of the Nova Scotia Grain and Forage Commission. Interfiled in minutes are other item types including correspondence, reports, budget estimates, job advertisements, reproductions of Executive Council of Nova Scotia Orders, and other reports.
Series contains Dr. Frederick Waldemar (Waldo) Walsh photographs from different events such as conferences, retirement gatherings, and schools taken and collected between 1910-1963. Other photographs were taken and collected by Waldo Walsh of Nova Scotia Boy's and Girls Clubs in the early 1920s when Walsh was a professor of Animal Husbandry [at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College] and sheep and swine promoter. Places include Mabou, Pictou county, Annapolis (Lawrencetown) and Yarmouth; Lottie Austin and some Beaton's and Rankins may be in the Mabou pictures .
Series contains Melville Cumming's records, reports, related to courses he taught at the NSAC, and unpublished articles and research notes related to farming and agriculture.
Series contains publications related to Melville Cumming's agricultural research which he published between 1923-1957. Series is divided into three subseries: committee & association minutes, papers Cumming used for his research, and research articles by Cumming.
Series records relating to water resources in Nova Scotia, which includes water quality, water management, water sheds, tides, etc., published between 1911-1990.
Series contains sketches of a farm at Valley Station [Nova Scotia], a woodlot in Truro, N.S., Truro Market and properties in Truro of T.G. McMullen and others, and some coal and iron areas in Kemptown, surveyed by J.K. Eaton, D.C.L.S. Series is arranged chronologically from 1899 to 1911.
Series contains records created by Jean Mason Pell, Jackie Yarn, and J.D. Johnson related to agriculture in Nova Scotia and the "story" of the Gillans. There are also artifacts that were likely to have been used in an exhibit, or tribute at the MacRae Library.
Series contains records relating to the history of the Nova Scotia Agriculture College and its relationship with agriculture in Nova Scotia and across the world. This includes early drafts for a university motto and crest, past principal's signatures, and contributions to the provincial government between 1904-2010. Subseries' includes History of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College and agriculture in Nova Scotia. Record types found are textual files, reports, drawings, correspondence, books, and photographs.
Series contains records relating to agricultural extension services and campus research project records at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College from 1972-2006. Record types include textual records, photographs, posters, video cassettes, computer media, correspondence, conference programs, maps, books and newspapers. Subseries' include the Columbia project, field trial reports of the Nova Scotia Crop Development Institute, and Nova Scotia Agricultural College Department of Plant Science reports.
Series contains the histories of the Nova Scotia Association of Garden Clubs as written by various historians from 1954-2014. The series also includes the history of Westmount Park Garden Club from 1963-1988.
Series contains a record related to special events, celebrations, and workshops at Dalhousie University and the Faculty of Agriculture in Bible Hill, Nova Scotia. Records relate to anniversaries, exhibitions, community day, presidential installations, commencements, etc. from 2012 onward.
Series includes records related to sheep in Nova Scotia and Canada. Subseries include the Nova Scotia Sheep Breeders Association, and publications related to sheep. The series is arranged chronologically.
Series consists of photographs, albums, and video cassettes of events at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus between 1905 and 1998. These include students, staff, and faculty engaged in exhibitions, convocation/graduation, Autumn Assembly, Open house, sports events, theatre dramas, ceremonies, and campus life.
Series contains photographs of Nova Scotia Agricultural College students, staff, and faculty in classes, labs, during athletics, graduation, and other events.
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 periodicals, journals, newsletters, and magazines related to sheep and wool research, breeds, farming, and industry, published between 1930-2002.
Series contains photographs, film reels, video tapes, film reels, cassette tapes, paintings, and textual records relating to sheep between 1940-2002. The series is arranged into 2 subseries: photographs and films.
Series includes papers and correspondence to and from Fred Sears written between 1905-1907 while professor of horticulture at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College.
Series contains over 200 glass negative and lantern slides photographs depict apples and orchard practice. There are also copy negatives and contact prints that were made at a later unknown date. Most of the . Notes on some of the sleeves of the negatives suggest that they date from the period 1898-1907. Fred C. Sears taught at the Horticultural School in Wolfville which operated from 1894-1904 and then took up a position as Professor of Horticulture at NSAC from 1905-1907. In 1907 he accepted a position as Professor of Pomology at the Massachusetts Agricultural College. It was there in 1914 that he wrote a textbook entitled Productive Orcharding. The book is illustrated with photographs akin to those in this collection. One photo is the same as one in the collection, but from a different angle. It seems likely that many photographs illustrating the book were taken in Nova Scotia, probably Wolfville. Sears dedicated his book to Robert W. Starr, a close friend and former president of the Nova Scotia Fruit Growers Association. Also contains: - 120 b&w 5" x 7" prints made from the glass slides, - "'An Apple a Day' : a collection of photographs" exhibit catalogue produced for a 1998 display. - A copy of the [MacRae Library] "Library Trust Fund Update", vol.9:no.1. July 1998.
Series contains a painting, a reproduction of an etching, and a photographic print depicting various farm and rural life settings in Nova Scotia between 1880 and 1914.
Series contains speeches and addresses written and delivered by Dr. Melville Cumming at events between 1918-1957. Many of these occurred at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College to graduating students and commemorating NSAC's anniversary.
Series consists of the proceedings of conferences and workshops related to agriculture that were hosted at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus between 1965-1997.
Series contains administrative records of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College between 1912-1997. Arranged into three subseries: annual reports, correspondence, and facilities and buildings records. Record types include correspondence, architectural drawings, and speeches.
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 records related to home economics published between 1916-1982. Topics include methods of food preservation, and food storage, which include canning, sealing, and freezing, as well as publications for expectant and new mothers.
Series contains photographs of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus, which includes buildings and landscapes, residences, barns, athletic complex, library, etc. There are photographs from the ground, panoramic, and aerials shots, taken between 1889-2007.
Series contains farm machinery and implement catalogues and price lists that belonged to William Peers when he was an agent for Frost & Wood Farm Machinery.
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.
Series contains various publications and archival records from various sheep related associations, councils, boards, bureaus, and university faculties. There are four subseries': Nova Scotia Wool Marketing Board, Canadian Co-operative Wool Growers Limited, Canada Sheep Council, and other councils and associations. There are also files with records created by the Wool Bureau of Canada Limited, Manitoba Sheep Association, Wool-growers at Work, and University of Alberta Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry.