Archives Catalogue

Cumming article on the Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture

MS-14-1, MS-14 OVR Box 1, Folder 11, Item 1
Item
[192?]

Item is an article written by Melville Cumming on the Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture prepared for the Premier.

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

UA-43, PB Box 20, Folder 13, Item 7
Item
[195-]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Item is a photograph of students of the 1950's class F of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College. There are 4 men in suit jackets facing the camera.

1950's class G of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, PB Box 20, Folder 13, Item 8
Item
[195-]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Item is a photograph of students of the 1950's class G of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College. There are 4 men in suit jackets facing the camera.

1950's class I of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, PB Box 20, Folder 13, Item 10
Item
[195-]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Item is a photograph of students of the 1950's class I of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College. There are 10 men in suit jackets facing the camera in two rows. The front row is sitting. There are 7 men in two rows facing camera in suit jackets.
Front row sitting. Annotated on reverse : “Students Complete Farm Training – When Graduation Exercises were held at the NSAC, among those receiving diplomas were students who were students of the Advanced Farm Class who have completed their course at the Institution. The class is shown above. Reading from left to right, are: Front Row: D. E. M. Fisher, R. R. #4, Amherst; G. W. Allen, Milton ; C. R. Levo, R. R. #1, Westville; G. L. Zwicker, R. R. #4, Bridgetown. Back Row: D. R. Barrett, Truro; J. J. Bowlby, Aylesford; L. G. Tattrie, River John. Mat Attached. W. J. MacLeod, Superintendent of Services.

1950's class B of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, PB Box 20, Folder 13, Item 3
Item
[195-]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Item is a photograph of Nova Scotia Agricultural College students in Class B. There are 21 men and 1 woman in three rows facing camera. Taken circa 1950's .

1950's class C of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, PB Box 20, Folder 13, Item 4
Item
[195-]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Item is a photograph of students of the 1950's class C of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College. There are 4 men in suit jackets facing the camera.

1950's class D of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, PB Box 20, Folder 13, Item 5
Item
[195-]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Item is a photograph of students of the 1950's class D of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College. There are 26 men in three rows facing the camera. They are very young men in informal dress.

1950's class H of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, PB Box 20, Folder 13, Item 9
Item
[195-]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Item is a photograph of students of the 1950's class H of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College. There are 10 men in suit jackets facing the camera in two rows. The front row is sitting.

Register of farmers' cattle and sheep marks in Chester, Nova Scotia

MS-2-464, SF Box 42, Folder 4
Item
1813-1921

Item is a register of farmers' sheep and cattle marks, recorded by successive town clerks in Chester Municipality. Includes descriptions, diagrams, famers' names, dates, and the names of the recorder.

Chester Municipality.

Letter from Lord Dalhousie to W. Smith

MS-2-69, SF Box 18, Folder 22
Item
1823

Item is a letter (1823) from Lord Dalhousie to W. Smith, requesting that two barrels of Pictou oatmeal be shipped to Quebec on the next available vessel as a sample of Smith's produce.

Smith, W., fl. 1823

Walking wheel

MS-14-25
Item
[between 1875-1880]

Part of Peter Sanger fonds

Item is a walking wheel handmade from rock maple around 1875-1880, probably in Northern Colchester County. It was acquired from an old farm house in East Earltown, Nova Scotia.

The dairy of the future, or, Theory and practice combined : [facsimile]

MS-13-33, SF Box 63, Folder 3, Item 4
Item
March 18 1890

Part of Alexander Peter Reid fonds

Item consists of a facsimile of Dr. A.P. Reid's address before the Nova Scotia Dairyman's Association meeting, held in Halifax on March 18th, 1890, titled "The Dairy of the Future, or, Theory and Practice Combined", copied from the T.C. Allen-published pamphlet of the same year.

Typed transcription of the farm diary of Zabud MacKay (Malagash)

MS-14-9, MS-14 Box 5, Folder 10
Item
April 12 - 0ct. 27, 1900

Part of Atlantic Canada farm and rural life collection

Photograph of Vera Avery

MS-14-8, PB Box 25, Folder 10
Item
[1900-1960]

Part of Canadian agriculture collection

Generator propeller

MS-14-86 - Museum / SLC exhibit case
Item
[1900-1999]

Item is a wooden generator propeller.

Egg notebook

MS-14-54, Box 126, Folder 27
Item
1903-1908

Item is a notebook with entries dating from 1903-1908 detailing the number of eggs laid and/or for what they were sold, as well as observations about hens. It was possibly kept by a woman in Sheffield, New Brunswick.

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

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 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

A century of farm life and agriculture in Nova Scotia / Melville Cumming

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 1, Folder 16
Item
[1905?]-[1927?]

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

Notes on the rural problems from the stand point of the cleryman [clergyman?] / Melville Cumming

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 1, Folder 32
Item
[1905?]-[1927?]

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

Nova Scotia Agricultural College student notebook

MS-14-24, MS-14, Box 9, Folder 24
Item
1905-1927

Item is a Nova Scotia Agricultural College student notebook from between 1905-1927.

Photograph of people in formal wear in front of the pavilion on the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus

UA-43, PB Box 40, Folder 26, Item 2
Item
[1905?]-[1950?]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Item is a photograph of people on the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus in front of the pavilion, it may have been the Winter fair.

Photograph of three students in formal wear (suits and ties) in front of library book shelves at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, PB Box 40, Folder 26, Item 11
Item
[1905?]-[1950?]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Photograph of people with hard hats on in front of fallen trees at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, PB Box 40, Folder 26, Item 12
Item
[1905?]-[1950?]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Photograph of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College water tower and campus

UA-43, PB Box 23, Folder 29, Item 1
Item
[1905?]-[1990?]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Photograph of a group of ten students and an instructor in formal wear in a laboratory the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, PB Box 23, Folder 29, Item 8
Item
[1905?]-[1939?]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Photograph of Ayrshire cow, "Annie Laurie", owned by the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, OVR PB Box 11, Folder 5
Item
[1905?]-[1959?]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Item is a black and white photograph of the famous Ayrshire Cow "Annie Laurie", twice winner of first prize in milk test Guelph Ontario, owned by the [Nova Scotia] Agricultural College, Truro, Nova Scotia (45 x 52 cm). No date.

Nova Scotia Agricultural College - Gram House (Home Ec) (principal’s house) photograph

UA-43, PB Box 1, Folder 18, Item 39
Item
[1905?]-[1979?]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Agriculture in Pictou county / Melville Cumming

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 1, Folder 11
Item
[1905?]-[1927?]

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

Farm or city life : for the pathfinder / [Cumming]

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 1, Folder 19, Item 1
Item
[1905?]-[1927?]

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

One phase of a farmer's religion / [Melville Cumming]

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 1, Folder 19, Item 3
Item
[1905?]-[1927?]

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

Nova Scotia Agricultural College field day featuring Cumming Hall photograph

UA-43, PB Box 1, Folder 18, Item 37
Item
[1905?]-[1999?]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Photograph of twelve people in two rows in formal wear (suits and ties) in front at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, PB Box 40, Folder 26, Item 5
Item
[1905?]-[1950?]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Photograph of people in formal wear (suits and ties) on the stairs in front of Cummning Hall at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, PB Box 40, Folder 26, Item 6
Item
[1905?]-[1950?]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

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

UA-43, PB Box 40, Folder 26, Item 7
Item
[1905?]-[1950?]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Photograph of five students in formal wear (suits and ties) in front of library book shelves at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College

UA-43, PB Box 40, Folder 26, Item 10
Item
[1905?]-[1950?]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Agriculture in Nova Scotia / Melville Cumming

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 1, Folder 7
Item
[1905?]-[1927?]

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

An interest in the farm / [Melville Cumming]

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 1, Folder 19, Item 4
Item
[1905?]-[1927?]

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

Photograph of ten people in formal wear (suits and ties) in front of steps what is probably the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus

UA-43, PB Box 40, Folder 26, Item 4
Item
[1905?]-[1950?]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Item is a photograph of people on the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus in front of a building which could be Cumming Hall or the original science building.

Photograph of five students in formal wear (suits and ties) in front of library book shelves at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College