Archives Catalogue

Space Age Ark, Brand New Home : [clipping]

MS-11-13, Box 14, Folder 10, Item 3
Item
1977-11

Item consists of a clipping from the November 1977 issue of Chatelaine, titled "Space Age Ark, Brave New Home", written by Constance Mundell, about a visit to the Ark project in Spry Bay, Prince Edward Island.

Experimental P.E.I. "Ark" will do it all : [clipping]

MS-11-13, Box 14, Folder 10, Item 5
Item
1975-07-05

Part of Ecology Action Centre fonds

Item consists of a clipping from the May 7, 1975 issue of The 4th Estate, titled "Experimental P.E.I. 'Ark' will do it all" about the design and construction of the New Alchemy Institute Ark in Spry Point, Prince Edward Island.

Sermons, but no solutions at Man and Resources Institute : [clipping]

MS-11-13, Box 14, Folder 10, Item 11
Item
1979-09

Part of Ecology Action Centre fonds

Item consists of a clipping from the September 1979 issue of Atlantic Insight, written by Kennedy Wells, titled "Sermons, but no solutions at Man and Resources Institute" about the struggles of the Ark project, Spry Point, Prince Edward Island.

And as the Ark Sinks Slowly in the East : [clipping]

MS-11-13, Box 14, Folder 10, Item 12
Item
1981

Part of Ecology Action Centre fonds

Item consists of a clipping from a 1981 issue of Harrowsmith, titled "And as the Ark Sinks Slowly in the East...", about the decline of the Ark project in Spry Point, Prince Edward Island.

Architectural plan of the Prince Edward Island Ark property

MS-11-13, Box 14, Folder 10, Item 17
Item
[1976]

Part of Ecology Action Centre fonds

Item consists of an architectural plan outlining the New Alchemy Institute's Prince Edward Island Ark project, showing building designs and garden bed plot layout.

Exploration of Self-Sufficiency at the P.E.I. Ark : [manuscript]

MS-11-13, Box 14, Folder 10, Item 18
Item
1978-10

Part of Ecology Action Centre fonds

Item consists of the draft of a lecture delivered by Kenneth T. MacKay at the International Conference on Basic Techniques
in Ecological Agriculture, October 1978, titled "Exploration of Self-Sufficiency at the P.E.I. Ark".

Photograph of a lighthouse on land in the distance during the Purebred Sheep Breeders' Association tour to the Sheep Islands off Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, in June 1999

MS-14-22, PB Box 3, Folder 11, Item 4
Item
1999

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

Photograph of eggs in a small nest in the grass during the Purebred Sheep Breeders' Association tour to the Sheep Islands off Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, in June 1999

MS-14-22, PB Box 3, Folder 11, Item 8
Item
1999

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

Photograph of graded sheep carcasses

MS-14-22, PB Box 3, Folder 13
Item
1940

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

Photograph of a group of people with a sheep and a dog on Gull Island, in Wedgeport, Nova Scotia

MS-14-22, PB Box 3, Folder 14, Item 1
Item
1996

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

Photograph of a group of sheep standing on the rocks with a dog on Gull Island, in Wedgeport, Nova Scotia

MS-14-22, PB Box 3, Folder 14, Item 3
Item
1996

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

Photograph of a group of people with a group of sheep in a pen on Gull Island, in Wedgeport, Nova Scotia

MS-14-22, PB Box 3, Folder 14, Item 4
Item
1996

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

Photograph of a group of people shearing sheep in a pen on Gull Island, in Wedgeport, Nova Scotia

MS-14-22, PB Box 3, Folder 14, Item 5
Item
1996

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

Sheep on Gull Island (off Wedgeport, NS)

MS-14-22, PB Box 3, Folder 14, Item 6
Item
1996

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

Item is a typed description of the sheep on Gull Island, in Wedgeport, Nova Scotia, including information on the breed of sheep, the holding pen, movement on the island, and the work site on Gull Island, from 1996.

Reproduction of an aerial photograph used in the 2005 Nova Scotia Agricultural College centennial exhibit

UA-43, PB Box 35, Folder 22
Item
[2005]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

NSAC Centennial exhibit opening speech notes by Dale Ells

UA-43, Box 2, Folder 22, Item 3
Item
2005

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Item is a copy of the opening remarks of the exhibit “NSAC : 100 Years and Growing” by Dale Ells, exhibit Planning Committee. February 4, 2005. Discussing history, centennial, and museum exhibits.

Photograph of stallion Captain Aubrey and groomer A. Dwyer

UA-43, PB Box 23, Folder 16
Item
[1917]-[1929]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Item is a black and white photograph of Nova Scotia Agricultural College's prized stallion, Captain Aubrey, pictured with A. Dwyer driving a cart attached. From Dale Ells' Shaped through Service : an illustrated history of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College, page 95: Captain Aubrey was a bay horse that stood 15.3 hands in height, weighed around 1200 pounds. Captain Aubrey foaled in 1904 and had an impressive racing career until 1912, then began his career as a stud horse. He was purchased under the advice of Dr. Cumming for NSAC in 1917 and used for stud. Pure Bred Stallion Enrollment no. 14 Captain Aubrey 107 1/4 Son of Peter the Great 2:07 1 / 4.

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

Nova Scotia Agricultural College building - government experimental farm photograph

UA-43, PB Box 1, Folder 18, Item 38
Item
[1905?]-[1999?]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Nova Scotia Agricultural College - field day Cumming Hall photograph

UA-43, PB Box 1, Folder 18, Item 40
Item
[1905?]-[1999?]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

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

Photograph of a Nova Scotia Agricultural College building, view of front corner taken in 1977

UA-43, PB Box 1, Folder 38, Item 2
Item
1977

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Item is a negative print of a Nova Scotia Agricultural College building prior to demolition, possibly the Principals house taken in 1977. The view is of the front corner: view of dormer roofed, 2 story (+ attic) building with 4 front bay windows, covered front stairs with veranda above, and side porch visible.

Photograph of the inside of the livestock lab (Boulden building) at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College taken in the 1960s

UA-43, PB Box 20, Folder 6, Item 5
Item
[1960?]-[1969?]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Photograph of the new Cox Institute of Agricultural Technology at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College taken in the 1960s

UA-43, PB Box 20, Folder 6, Item 9
Item
[1960?]-[1969?]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Photograph of an aerial view of the construction of a barn complex at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College taken in the 1960s

UA-43, PB Box 20, Folder 6, Item 10
Item
[1960?]-[1969?]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

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

UA-43, PB Box 20, Folder 6, Item 14
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 outside of hotel and pool in Jamaica

UA-43, PB Box 16, Folder 55, Item 4
Item
[198-?]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Item is a photographic slide of the outside of a hotel and pool from the second story [Jamaica].

Photograph of 3 men in shirtsleeves standing in front of a driveway with formal planting behind them looking beyond camera in Jamaica

UA-43, PB Box 16, Folder 55, Item 10
Item
[198-?]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Photograph of two cows [Jersey cattle?] grazing in Jamaica

UA-43, PB Box 16, Folder 55, Item 15
Item
[198-]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Photograph of three cows (or two cows, one bull [Jersey cattle]) separated by a farm fence in Jamaica

UA-43, PB Box 16, Folder 55, Item 16
Item
[198-]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Photograph of a lush, green paddock and crops with surrounding native vegetation in Jamaica

UA-43, PB Box 16, Folder 55, Item 18
Item
[198-]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Photograph of two buildings (home and community building?) in Jamaica

UA-43, PB Box 16, Folder 55, Item 21
Item
[198-]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Photograph of a pile of ripe ackee, Blighia sapoedia fruit in Jamaica

UA-43, PB Box 16, Folder 55, Item 28
Item
[198-]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Photograph of a split open seed pod of nutmeg and mace Myristic fragrans in Jamaica

UA-43, PB Box 16, Folder 55, Item 29
Item
[198-]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Photograph of fruit on a tree (unidentified), in Jamaica

UA-43, PB Box 16, Folder 55, Item 32
Item
[198-]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Photograph of a bunch of allspice – Pimenta dioica – aka myrtle pepper, on a branch in Jamaica

UA-43, PB Box 16, Folder 55, Item 42
Item
[198-]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Photograph of a hibiscus [?] flower – Hibisais sabdariffa in Jamaica

UA-43, PB Box 16, Folder 55, Item 46
Item
[198-]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Photograph of four people, probably students, looking at a surveyors transit on the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus

UA-43, PB Box 40, Folder 26, Item 1
Item
1970

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Photograph of four people seated at a table the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus signing the agreement between NSAC and Dalhousie University granting joint degrees

UA-43, PB Box 40, Folder 26, Item 3
Item
[1980]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Photograph of four people standing on the grass at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in spring/summer

UA-43, PB Box 40, Folder 26, Item 8
Item
[1905?]-[1950?]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Photograph of eleven people in formal wear (suits and ties) and hats in front of a crop at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, PB Box 40, Folder 26, Item 13
Item
[1905?]-[1950?]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Photograph of people in formal clothing in front of Cumming Hall at a Nova Scotia Agricultural College horse judging event, could be Winter Show

UA-43, PB Box 23, Folder 29, Item 3
Item
[1940?]-[1959?]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Photograph of a Horticulture display at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College, could be Winter Show, College Royal

UA-43, PB Box 23, Folder 29, Item 4
Item
1956

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Photograph of a person showing a beef cattle

UA-43, PB Box 23, Folder 29, Item 6
Item
[1940?]-[1959?]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Photograph of a person showing a horse or stallion in front of a crowd of people in formal wear, it could be the Nova Scotia Agricultural College Winter show, or College Royal

UA-43, PB Box 23, Folder 29, Item 7
Item
[1905?]-[1959?]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Kenneth Cox (1946 - 1964)

UA-43, PB Box 1, Folder 18, Item 36
Item
[1946 - 1964]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Item is a photograph of Kenneth Cox. In 1937, Dr. Cox moved to Truro, Nova Scotia, where he accepted an appointment as Provincial Agronomist and Professor of Agronomy at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College. These two roles were continued until 1946. In 1941 he was also appointed Vice-Principal of the College and Farm Director. He held the position of Nova Scotia Agricultural College principal from 1946 - 1964.

1950's class E of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, PB Box 20, Folder 13, Item 6
Item
[195-]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Item is a photograph of students of the 1950's class E of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College. There are 22 men and 1 woman in three rows facing the camera. Suspect a farm class due to informality of dress.

1950's class F of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College