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Dr. Catharine A. Wilson

    
  
Dr. Catharine Wilson
   

 
Current Research
My interest in rural Ontario began when I participated in the Huron County Oral History Project, shifted to immigration and settlement, and now focuses on family strategies for maintaining a life on the land in the19th century. Currently I am completing a book which analyzes individual tenant families and their landlords, and the legal and ideological status of tenancy in a society of freeholders. Another project explores how reciprocal work bees (quilting bees, barn raisings etc.) operated as informal labour exchanges and assisted in defining community. This topic touches on a variety of issues from gender roles and community dynamics to recreational violence. I am also working on a project about ploughing matches as a gendered art form.

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pdf Introduction to Cramahe Township Data
  Coming soon: Cramahe Township Database

 

pdf Catharine Wilson 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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