- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Dundurn; 2 edition (Sep 1 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1550023209
- ISBN-13: 978-1550023206
- Product Dimensions: 27.4 x 21.4 x 1.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 626 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,445,814 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"This well-written and effectively illustrated book will be useful to scholars of Canadian history ad Canadian higher education." (Alexander Gregor Canadian Book Review Annual )
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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.
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