Rural History | University of Guelph

	Person or Family	Type of Record	Activity	Place	County	Begin	End	Reference	Notes
	John Keith	accounts	country carpenter	Elora	Wellington	1836	1855	XR1 MS A668	See also Jon Studiman’s essay
	Dougall family	letters home	farm	Usborne	Huron	1844		XR1 MS A365	extended series of letters sent home to Scotland
	Goldie Family	letters	gentry farm	Ayr	Waterloo	1846	1850	XR1 MS A051	4 or 5 letters, excellent quality
	Thomas Arkell	account book	livestock breeding	Puslinch	Wellington	1854	1886	XA1 MS A009	pedigrees, sales, etc; photocopy of book
	William Sunter	diary	farm	Everton	Wellington	1857		XR1 MS A528	some accounts also, to 1861; see also later Sunter diary.
	Duckworth & Shields	diary and accounts	farm included	Snelgrove	Peel	1862	1927	XR1 MS A030	accounts earlier are for James Duckworth and later for Oliver Shields
	Thomas Linton	account books	farm	New Dundee	Waterloo	1863	1899	XA1 MS A200	2 books, different in form, one to, the other after 1886
	James Wilson	account book	farm	North Dumfries	Waterloo	1866	1875	XA1 MS A199
	John Jardine	diary	farm	Tilbury	Kent	1868	1905	XR1 MS A194	these are boxes 5 & 6 of this collection; see finding aid, on line, for additional material and fuller descriptions. Also one farm journal for 1828-58.
	Albert and Susan Smith	journal		Mount Forest	Wellington	1869	1874	XR1 MS A142	2 years only, one by each youthful author
	James Bremner Jr	diary	young man	Creekdale	Grey	1881		XR1 MS A362	1 year only
	George Holmwood	diary	farm	Guelph Township	Wellington	1888	1927	XR1 MS A314	typed transcript; an index is available
	William Sunter	diary	farm	Everton	Wellington	1892	1914	XR1 MS A023	see also earlier Sunter diary
	unknown	accounts	farm	Elora	Wellington	1901	1911	XR1 MS A115025	in Connon collection
	Milton Dyment	diary	farm	Jerseyville and Guelph	Wentworth, Wellington	1907	1941	XR1 MS A681
	George Arthur Disbrowe	diary	farm	Lambeth	Middlesex	1907	1932	XA1 MS A014	5 volumes of diary
	H.H. Dean	accounts & letters	farm	Grimsby	Lincoln	1909	1943	RE1 OAC A0011	OAC professor develops his own farm
	Olive Snyder	diary		Elora	Wellington	1913	1951	XR1 MS A371	not from a farm, but noted as an example of a woman's diary; these are box 1 of this collection.
	Ira McIntosh	account book	farm	Carrick Township	Bruce	1923	1928	XR1 MS A370

The following are examples from Britain
	Geddes collection	diary	farm	Scotland	Aberdeenshire	1834		XR1 MS A390	observation, in detail, of farming in Scotland; author is in Upper Canada in 1835, where record is mainly of the weather.
	Mrs. A. Townsend	accounts and notes	farm	England	Dorsetshire	1842	1847	XR1 MS A210154	begins with account of purchases; later includes varied notes and accounts: produce sales, hiring of servants, recipes; in Duff collection

Although this list is drawn from a systematic, comprehensive survey, there is reason to hope that more such sources are concealed within large, complex collections. We would appreciate hearing of any other such sources you find in the University of Guelph holdings.