Image of Engineering students seated in Room 130 during a lecture in the Engineering Building. W.B. Baker, Director, School of Agriculture, seated in foreground.

Elevated view looking east of University buildings from l to r: Engineering Building, Main Barn, and Physical Education Building. Greenhouses in foreground.

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.”

Elevated view looking northeast of College Building at right; Power House and Engineering Building in background. [Physics Building construction in foreground]. Winter scene.

Looking east at campus buildings (from l to r): Emmanuel College, Qu'Appelle Hall, Administration Building, Field Husbandry Building, and Engineering Building. Taken from the west bank of the South Saskatchewan River.

The Governor General of Canada, the Duke of Devonshire, walking towards a car in front of the Engineering Building. Crowd in background at right.

Returned men working on and around a Case steamer inside the Engineering Building.

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".