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".

Lindwood Farms highland cattle

MS-4-135, Box 176, Folder 21
File
1958 - 1960

Part of Oland and Son fonds

Appraisal of Oland's Farms, R.R. #1, Upper Kennetcook, Hants County, Nova Scotia

MS-4-135, Box 2, Folder 3
File
1979

Part of Oland and Son fonds

File contains a report prepared by Allister R. Marshall, Field Officer, Nova Scotia Farm Loan Board.

Records regarding Ronald St. John Macdonald’s academic work

Series
1823 - 2005

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

Series comprises Ronald St. John Macdonald's records regarding his academic activities, including his involvement as a faculty member of York University Osgoode Hall, University of Toronto, Dalhousie University, and other institutions. Series also includes records and research materials regarding the development of Macdonald's publications, unpublished papers, and other materials.

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.

Rural Science School photograph

MS-14-55, PB Box 10, Folder 10
Item
1909

Item is a photograph of the Rural Science School in Truro, Nova Scotia in July or August 1909.

Sheep and wool photographs

Subseries
1940-2002

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

Subseries contains 135 photographs and 3 paintings. Some of these photographs have attached newspaper clippings, pamphlets, postcard, or article. Graphic materials depict sheep and lambs of various breeds in various farms, pastures, and exhibition events. Additionally, there are photographs of members of sheep related associations and businesses taken between 1940-2002.

Photograph of three people talking at the side of a sheep pen during the field day at Bill Mathewson's farm

MS-14-22, PB Box 1, Folder 1, Item 7
Item
[19-]

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

Photograph of a group of people around what is likely the roasted carcass of a sheep or lamb during the field day at Bill Mathewson's farm

MS-14-22, PB Box 1, Folder 1, Item 11
Item
[19-]

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

Photograph of three people observing what is likely the carcass of a sheep or lamb roasting during the field day at Bill Mathewson's farm

MS-14-22, PB Box 1, Folder 1, Item 14
Item
[19-]

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

Photographs of the Sheep Breeders' Association of Nova Scotia's field day at Agnus Rouse's Farm in Debert, Nova Scotia

MS-14-22, PB Box 1, Folder 2
File
[19-]

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

File contains six photographs of the Sheep Breeders' Association of Nova Scotia's field day at Agnus Rouse's farm in Debert, Nova Scotia, including photographs of various buildings and sheep.

Photograph of what is likely a house and other building through trees during the Sheep Breeders' Association of Nova Scotia's field day at Agnus Rouse's Farm in Debert, Nova Scotia

MS-14-22, PB Box 1, Folder 2, Item 1
Item
[19-]

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

Photograph of a person standing with a group of sheep in a pen during the Sheep Breeders' Association of Nova Scotia's field day at Agnus Rouse's Farm in Debert, Nova Scotia

MS-14-22, PB Box 1, Folder 2, Item 4
Item
[19-]

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

Newspaper clipping related to the death of Victor Aylward, of Windsor, Nova Scotia

MS-14-22, PB Box 3, Folder 1, Item 4
Item
[19-]

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

Photograph of the Sheep Producers' Association of Nova Scotia lamb display, and related items

MS-14-22, PB Box 3, Folder 3
File
1980

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

File contains a photograph of a lamb display by SPANS.

Photograph of Doug Perry, Georgina MacKenzie (MacNeil) during the shearing competition at the sheep fair

MS-14-22, PB Box 2, Folder 11
Item
1980

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

Photographs of sheep at Cape Mabou Community Pasture, Cape John Community Pasture etc.

MS-14-22, PB Box 3, Folder 4
File
[between 1970 and 1989]

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

File contains 5 photographs of various sheep, including Andrew Richards farm, Cape Mabou Community Pasture, Cape John Community Pasture, Tony Turner's farm, and Lloyd Palmer from between 1970 and 1989.

Photograph of sheep in pens at Cape John Community Pasture, Nova Scotia

MS-14-22, PB Box 3, Folder 4, Item 3
Item
[between 1980 and 1989]

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

Photograph of Ernie Maynard holding a sheep between 1960 and 1979

MS-14-22, PB Box 3, Folder 5, item 2
Item
[between 1970 and 1979]

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

Photograph of Suffolk ewes in a field

MS-14-22, PB Box 3, Folder 5, Item 6
Item
[19-]

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

Photographs of various sheep breeds

MS-14-22, PB Box 3, Folder 6
File
[1900?]-[1999?]

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

Photograph of a person holding a Polled Dorset

MS-14-22, PB Box 3, Folder 6, Item 4
Item
[19-]

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

Photograph of black-faced sheep in a field

MS-14-22, PB Box 2, Folder 12
Item
[1900?]-[1999?]

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

Photograph of sheep in pen during the milk replace trials in Nappan, Nova Scotia

MS-14-22, PB Box 1, Folder 6
Item
[between 1970 and 1974]

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

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.

Photographs of the Purebred Sheep Breeders' Association tour to the Sheep Islands off Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, in June 1999

MS-14-22, PB Box 3, Folder 15
File
1999

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

File contains 11 photographs and 1 newspaper article related to the Purebred Sheep Breeders' Association tour to the Sheep Islands off Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, in June 1999, including landscapes and people on the ferry.

Photograph of 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 15, Item 5
Item
1999

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

Photograph of docks, boats, and buildings 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 15, Item 6
Item
1999

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

Photograph of grass and sand with an island 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 15, Item 7
Item
1999

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

Photograph of people walking on grass with sand and another piece of 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 15, Item 9
Item
1999

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

Photograph of a boat on the water 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 15, Item 11
Item
1999

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

Photographs from the All Canada Sheep Classic in Brandon, Manitoba, in June 1999

MS-14-22, PB Box 3, Folder 16
File
1999

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

File contains 5 photographs taken during the All Canada Sheep Classic in Brandon, Manitoba, including photographs of the Nova Scotia sheep booth, sheep in a pen, people holding sheep, and sheep being sheared.

Photograph of people holding sheep during the All Canada Sheep Classic in Brandon, Manitoba, in June 1999

MS-14-22, PB Box 3, Folder 16, Item 3
Item
1999

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

Photographs of sheep, ewes, rams, and lambs

MS-14-22, PB Box 3, Folder 17
File
[19-]

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

File contains 6 photographs of miscellaneous sheep on display, including a Leicester, lambs and ewes, and reprints of paintings of a Hampshire ram and a Columbia ram.