Macgregor Smith, John
Agricultural engineer
[1886]-1950

After serving with the University of Saskatchewan from 1913 to 1920, 
John Macgregor Smith joined the University of Alberta in 1921 as its 
first professor of agricultural engineering.  His chief research
interest lay in soil-preserving tillage methods and farm machinery.
He was a fellow of the Agricultural Institute of Canada and of the 
American Society of Agricultural Engineers, and an honorary life 
member of the undergraduate students' Agricultural Club. 

Photographs, 1914, 0.12 m     

Photographs, 1914 
Album depicting the Better Farming Special, a train that  
travelled through Saskatchewan to provide lectures and  
demonstrations on agriculture to local residents (64  
images). 

Access: Open 
See also: Department of Agricultural Engineering