File contains the contract for the extension construction on Cumming Hall, the administration and classroom building on the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus to be completed on or by November 24, 1912. The contract describes the work to be done, and the materials to be used in the additions and alterations to Agricultural College from the drawings and superintendence of Andrew R. Cobb, Architect, Halifax, N.S. “Set no. 5”.
File is reproductions of the architectural plans for the Nova Scotia Agricultural College Horticultural building, August 2nd, 1912. Set A8. Scale 1/8":1'-0". Andrew R. Cobb - Arch - Halifax. 2 sheets. Handwritten in white ink in the lower right corner on sheet no. 1 is illegible. The horticultural building was later named Collins Horticulture Building.
File contains the contract for the construction of the headhouse to greenhouse at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College between W.K. Murray (contractor) and Department of Public Works including modifications to specifications. The contract is dated November 5, 1913. Signed by "? Cobb" Architect; "E. H. Armstrong" Commissioner for Public Works and Mines; and "W.K. Murray" contractor.
File contains an overview of the Information Technology Section of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College as well as the employment reports of recent graduates. Details also include statistics of recent graduates working in various industries and where students did their summer placements.
File contains the Nova Scotia Agricultural College principal's reports from 1974-1977. They give an overview of registration, staff changes, scholarships and awards, technical and vocations courses, course changes, campus expansion, and events of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College.
File contains the Nova Scotia Agricultural College principal's reports from 1977-1980. They give an overview of registration, staff changes, scholarships and awards, technical and vocations courses, course changes, campus expansion, and events of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College.
File contains the Nova Scotia Agricultural College principal's reports from 1986-1989. They give an overview of registration, staff changes, scholarships and awards, technical and vocations courses, course changes, campus expansion, and events of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College.
File contains photographs of the exterior of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College library that being built in 1982 and 1983. Official opening of the new library was graduation day May 1983, and the library was named the MacRae library in 1990.
File contains a letter from J.S. Bubar, Head of the Department of Plant Science, Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Jan. 25, 1974. Also included in an article on Sir William Dawson.
File contains a report created by Jean Pell for her CBC radio drama on everyday farm life entitled “The Gillans of Sunnybrae Farm” in the 1950’s and 1960’s. It also contains "Role of CBC in Agricultural Extension", by J.D. Johnson ; a draft copy of a script for the performance of: “The Gillans of Sunnybrae Farm: An informal History of Maritime Agriculture” written by Jackie Yarn [1994?].
File contains two articles written by Nova Scotia Agricultural College principal Melville Cumming, one from May 1911 published in MacDonald College Magazine, "The Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Truro, N.S.", and one from 1927 for "The Herald" entitled "The Nova Scotia Agricultural College".
This file contains 4 individually unrelated papers, 3 of which are titled “Livestock”, “Crop Production”, and "Farm and Crop Areas and Number of Farms.”
File contains journal articles relating to strawberries; topics include species variety, growth factors, pathology, cross-breeding, genetics, parasites, etc., that were published between 1957-1982.
File contains journal articles relating to blueberries, topics include plant growth and development, surveys, genetics, cytology, growth factors, species variety, fruit yield, breeding, etc., published between 1960-1983.
File contains journal articles relating to blueberries, topics include plant growth and development, species variety, fruit yield, plant physiology, frost effects, pathology, etc., published between 1960-1983.
