TY - BOOK ID - 77909189 TI - The college on the hill : a new history of the Ontario Agricultural College, 1874-1999 AU - Ross, Alexander M. AU - Crowley, Terence Allan AU - Ontario Agricultural College. PY - 1999 SN - 9786611969806 128196980X 1554883199 1282809121 9786612809125 1770700897 9781554883196 1550023209 9781550023206 9781281969804 9781282809123 9781770700895 PB - Toronto, Ontario ; Oxford, England : Dundurn Press, DB - UniCat KW - Agriculture KW - Farming KW - Husbandry KW - Industrial arts KW - Life sciences KW - Food supply KW - Land use, Rural KW - Study and teaching (Higher) KW - History. KW - Ontario Agricultural College KW - Ontario. KW - University of Guelph KW - University of Toronto KW - Guelph (Ont.). KW - O.A.C. KW - OAC KW - Ontario Agricultural College and Experimental Farm KW - Ontario School of Agriculture KW - Toronto (Ont.). KW - University of Guelph. KW - University of Toronto. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77909189 AB - 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 pr ER -