- A-379
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- [13 Mar. 1925]
View of twisted metal after fire destroyed the first Engineering Building on Friday, 13 March 1925.
View of twisted metal after fire destroyed the first Engineering Building on Friday, 13 March 1925.
Engineering Building - Interior
Scene inside workshop in Engineering Building. Blacksmith tools like forges, anvils and other equipment standing in rows.
Bio/Historical Note: Walter C. Murray, University President, saw that the College of Agriculture would keep the university close to the life of the people. Between 1909-1912, before they had teaching space, the agriculture faculty developed the agriculture farm and traveled doing extension work, most significantly, with the Better Farming Train. The Saskatchewan Minister of Agriculture, W.R. Motherwell, supported extension work with tax revenue funds. In October 1912, the first agriculture class was taught. Both a 3-year associate course and a degree course were available. In 1937 the associate program became the School of Agriculture. The school responded to local farming problems by teaching and research and with new departments directed to these areas.
Engineering Building - RCAF Hangar
Looking north at a former Royal Canadian Air Force hut located at rear of Engineering Building. College (Administration) Building at upper right.
Sketch of proposed Engineering Building.
Bio/historical note: The original Engineering Building was destroyed by fire on Friday, 13 March 1925.
Engineering Building - Tractor Laboratory
View of Engineering Building as seen from the Poultry Science Building; winter scene.
Bio/historical note: The original Engineering Building was destroyed by fire on Friday, 13 March 1925.
Engineering Building and Power House - Construction
View of Engineering Building under construction in foreground, with Power House construction in background. In immediate foreground is tunnel which ran laterally to the main line from Power House to College Building.
Farm Boys Club - Grain Club - Saskatoon
Club members sitting on stools at small tables, looking at grain samples in Engineering Building at University of Saskatchewan.
Group of men picking carrots in a field. Buildings in background (l to r): Power House, Engineering Building, and Livestock Pavilion.
Bio/Historical Note: This field was where the Physical Education building was later located in the 1940s. During World War II and for some years after crops were grown on campus.
Field Husbandry Building and Engineering Building
Elevated view of Department of Field Husbandry (later Crop Science) Building and College of Engineering Building.
Gasoline Traction Engine Course
Image of participants in the Gasoline Traction Engine Course, standing in front of the Engineering Building.
Bio/Historical Note: This was the first class ever conducted on campus; classes began in the new College Building that fall.
Gasoline Tractor Engine Course
Image of participants in the Gasoline Traction Engine Course, standing in front of two tractors parked in front of the Engineering Building.
Bio/Historical Note: This was the first class ever conducted on campus; classes began in the new College Building that fall.
View of greenhouses in centre foreground of image. University buildings in background are l to r: outer edge of Administration Building, Engineering Building, Livestock Pavilion, and Main Barn. Flowering shrubs in foreground.
National Research Council and Engineering Building
Elevated view looking northeast at National Research Council building, with Engineering Building in background.
Bio/Historical Note: In 1916 the National Research Council legislation was enacted and the institution was formed with the mandate to advise the government on matters of science and industrial research. For the first 15 or 16 years of its existence the NRC consisted of offices and borrowed lab space. It launched Canada’s first research journal, “Canadian Journal of Research” and funded research for human and bovine tuberculosis – a significant domestic problem in the 1920s. In 1932, NRC’s first dedicated lab was built in Ottawa. The NRC established a laboratory on the east side of the University of Saskatchewan campus in 1948. The original purpose of the facility was to “use chemistry and biology to diversify Canadian agriculture.” Originally called the “Prairie Regional Lab” then the “Plant Biotechnology Institute,” the facility is now known as “NRC Saskatoon.”
National Research Council and Engineering Building
Elevated view looking northeast at National Research Council building, with Engineering Building in background.
Bio/Historical Note: In 1916 the National Research Council legislation was enacted and the institution was formed with the mandate to advise the government on matters of science and industrial research. For the first 15 or 16 years of its existence the NRC consisted of offices and borrowed lab space. It launched Canada’s first research journal, “Canadian Journal of Research” and funded research for human and bovine tuberculosis – a significant domestic problem in the 1920s. In 1932, NRC’s first dedicated lab was built in Ottawa. The NRC established a laboratory on the east side of the University of Saskatchewan campus in 1948. The original purpose of the facility was to “use chemistry and biology to diversify Canadian agriculture.” Originally called the “Prairie Regional Lab” then the “Plant Biotechnology Institute,” the facility is now known as “NRC Saskatoon.”
Old Carpenter Shop in Original Engineering Building
Men standing in a carpentry shop surrounded by machinery and tools. Names on back of photo from left: Tom Hallett, carpenter; George Dixon, carpenter, ? Morrison; Walter Coppings, father-in-law; W.E. McClelland, chief engineer; Jack Smith, janitor; A.V. Copping, general foreman; Wm. Davies, machinist.