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Dr. Douglas McCalla

    
  
Dr. Doug McCalla
   

 
Current Research
My research program focuses on stories we tell about the making (and remaking) of rural society in Canada. It has two main components: at the macro-level, a study of Canadian settlement in the long term, from 1600 to 1939; at the micro- level, an analysis of consumption in the Upper Canadian countryside, based on samples of country store charge accounts. I also take a close interest in the Guelph-based project to produce a public-use micro sample of the 1891 Canadian manuscript census.

Graduate Supervision

Josh MacFadyen website
Sharon Weaver

Online Articles and Research

pdf "It was [not] a simpler time": Toward a New Economic History of Canadian Settlement
pdf Douglas McCalla Curriculum Vitae

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Rural History, Farming, Farm, Food, Agriculture, Rural Life, Countryside, Canada, History, Harvesting, Settlement, Rural, Culture, Veterinary, Agricultural science, Farm labourer, Farmer, Children, Gender, Rural Industries, Victorian, Edwardian, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Eighteenth century  

This research was undertaken, in part, thanks to funding
from the Canada Research Chairs Program.
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