Fonds MS-14-16 - Kenneth Cox fonds

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Kenneth Cox fonds

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MS-14-16

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2 cm of textual records
2 books

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(1899-1994)

Biographical history

Kenneth Cox was the sixth principal of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College and made significant contributions to the Maritime agricultural industry. Born in 1899 in Upper Stewiacke, Colchester County, he received his early training at NSAC, where he graduated with the Class of 1921. In 1924 he earned a BSc in Agriculture from the Ontario Agricultural College, studying animal husbandry. He followed this with graduate studies in agronomy at Macdonald College, McGill University, graduating with an MSc in 1929.

Cox returned to Nova Scotia to work at the Dominion Experimental Farm in Nappan, where he was employed as assistant to the superintendent and carried out research on cereals, forages, root crops and fertility. In 1937 he was appointed Provincial Agronomist and Professor of Agronomy at NSAC, and Vice-Principal and Farm Director in 1941. He became Acting Principal in 1946 and was appointed Principal in 1948, a position he held until his retirement in 1964.

Respected across the agricultural community, Kenneth Cox was a member of the Canadian Society of Technical Agriculturalists and served as president of the Nova Scotia Institute of Agrologists and honorary president of the Nova Scotia Federation of Agriculture. In 1960 he was made a fellow of the Agricultural Institute of Canada and an honorary life member of the Canadian Seed Growers Association. His contribution to agricultural education was recognized with an honorary LLD from McGill in 1964.

In 1968 the Cox Institute of Technology on the NSAC campus was named in his honour and in 1991 Kenneth Cox was granted a Distinguished Alumnus Award. He died in 1994.

Custodial history

Records were donated by Kenneth Cox and accessioned into the Agricola Archives in 1999 (A1999-036 / 99.36) and an unknown date, accession A2022-023.

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Fonds consists of one invoice and a book containing two pages of notes about agriculture written by Kenneth Cox. Also included is a text on live stock judging from 1917.

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There are no access restrictions on these materials. All materials are open for research.

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Materials do not circulate and must be used in the MacRae Library. Materials may be under copyright. Contact departmental staff for guidance on reproduction.

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SEE - accession A2018-028 moved to the agricultural reference collection: A History of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College / by Kenneth Cox. 1965, 1971 reprint . Truro, Nova Scotia MS-14-REF, Box 20, Folders 6-8.
Accession A2022-023, book titled The history of the Agricultural Institute of Canada : 1920-1980 / by H.K.C.A. Rasmussen, moved to Special Collections S 441 R37 1980

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Preferred citation: [Identification of item], Kenneth Cox fonds, MS-14-16, Box [box number], Folder [folder number], Dalhousie University Archives, Agricola Archives, Bible Hill, Nova Scotia, Canada.

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