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.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 630/.71/171343
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
- General Note
- Previously published under title: The college on the hill : a history of the Ontario Agricultural College, 1874-1974 / Alexander M. Ross Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn-on
- ISBN
- 1550022962 9781770700895
- LCCN
- S539.C3
- LCCN Item number
- O52 1999eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOTU
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (224 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00603122 (OCoLC)696033950 (CaOOCEL)410620
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOTU
Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Preface 8
- Chapter One: A School for Scandal 12
- Chapter Two: Firmer Foundations, 1874–1879 28
- Chapter Three: Consolidation, 1879–1904 42
- Chapter Four: O Brave New World? 1904–1920 70
- Chapter Five: College Days and Nights to 1930: The Beginnings of Youth Culture 92
- Chapter Six: Interregnum, 1920–1947 118
- Chapter Seven: The Golden Years: The Advent of the University of Guelph, 1947–1973 140
- Chapter Eight: Symbiosis, 1974–1999 172
- Notes 206
- Appendices 215
- Index 218
- A 218
- B 218
- C 219
- D 219
- E 220
- F 220
- G 220
- H 220
- I 221
- J 221
- K 221
- L 221
- M 222
- N 223
- O 223
- P 223
- Q 223
- R 223
- S 224
- T 225
- U 225
- V 225
- W 225
- Y 225
- Z 225
