View of Field Husbandry Building at centre; National Research Council Building at left and Engineering Building at right.

Bio/Historical Note: Field Husbandry changed its name to Crop Science in 1962.

Elevated view of Department of Field Husbandry (later Crop Science) Building and College of Engineering Building.

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.

Field with plants and markers in the foreground. The University of Saskatchewan Engineering Building in the background.

Fields with plants growing in rows in the foreground; view facing north with the Stock Pavilion and the University of Saskatchewan Engineering Building in the background.

Ewes and lambs in a stock pen; Livestock Pavilion and old Engineering building in background.

Ewes and lambs grazing in a fenced-in enclosure. Engineering Building and Livestock Pavilion in background.

Two mages showing returned men working on a Case automobile in a motor mechanics class in the Engineering Building. Names from back of photo, "R.C. Lauder, Phillips, Keating, Burrows, Barker, Cutts".

Returned men standing and sitting in front of Engineering Building.

Returned men, taking a short course, stand in front of the Engineering Building; winter scene.

View of first Engineering Building.

Early view of first Engineering Building.

Work being done on Engineering Building; scaffolding and trailer in foreground.

[R.D. MacLaurin] standing (left) in front of a vehicle with a large tank attached on top which reads "Straw Gas"; [F.H. Edmunds] sitting inside. Two unidentified men walking away at right. Sign on running board reads: "McLaughlin Motor Car Model D45". Engineering Building in background.

Bio/Historical Note: Prof. R.D. MacLaurin, head, Department of Chemistry, was interested in the production of gas from straw as a fuel for heating and for engines. Though he was not alone in the research field, MacLaurin built a small extraction plant in the late 1910s and operate a McLaughlin Motor Car using straw gas. The research was promising but far from a breakthrough. The volume of gas produced was small and the mileage between fill-ups low. The most significant aspect of the research was not scientific but financial. MacLaurin felt cheated when Walter C. Murray, University President, distributed provincial research funds to several campus projects. Though he had the largest share of the grant, MacLaurin felt he deserved it all. He alleged Murray had misappropriated funds. A battle ensued for the control of the University administration. Murray was able to maintain the confidence of the Board of Governors and MacLaurin and three of his supporters - Samuel Greenway, Extension director; Ira MacKay, professor of Law; and John L. Hogg, head, Physics - were dismissed. Research into straw gas was discontinued.

Numbered concrete bricks or blocks sitting in a pile in front of the Engineering Building. Information from A-4756: "Original blocks put in at site 1st Ave - 22nd-23rd taken out in 1928 when Massey Harris Bldg put up."

Bio/Historical Note: A three-storey concrete Massey Ferguson farm machinery warehouse operated in Saskatoon from 1929-1959 at 105 1st Avenue North. The building served a number of other uses until it was demolished in 1973. The Hilton Garden Inn Hotel now stands on the site (2021).