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The College on the Hill
How has the Ontario Agricultural College contributed to Canadian education? What role has the college played in the development of agriculture since it was founded in 1874? This history of Canada's oldest agricultural college revolves around these two questions. It shows that the college's mandate has changed in its attempt to serve both education and agriculture. The Ontario Agricultural College was established to enshrine science in farming, but it also became the testing and extension arm of the provincial ministry of agriculture. Direct government control for ninety years provided financial resources not enjoyed by other post-secondary schools, but the results sometimes proved of greater benefit to agriculture than to education or science. Swept into the University of Guelph when it was created in 1964, the college rethought its role. It emerged as a centre for advanced scientific inquiry, for global agricultural programs, and for understanding rural societies. The controversies surrounding these changes and the evolving nature of agriculture and science are brought out fully in this account of the past century and a quarter.
Construction of Buildings on Expansive Soils
The series comprises selected translations of Russian geotechnical literature, and this is a translation of a 1989 second edition reference. Coverage includes laws governing expansion and contraction of argillaceous soils, principles governing deformation of soil mass and foundations during soil exp
Tenders for the Agricultural College, Guelph by the Ontario Department of Public Works, 1874-1886
Eave troughs, May 8, 1874.-Double windows for the houses lately erected, Sept. 28, 1883.-Circular driveway and water supply, Oct. 18, 1886.-Bull shed removal, building stone foundation and water cistern in yard, Oct. 26, 1886.-Putting in drain subdivision in granary & floor between granaries, Nov. 13, 1886 (includes letter from President James Mills expressing need of "keeping our back-yard cleaner" and suggesting a "roofless place" to "throw waste paper and all other refuse ... ").
