History: Redelmeier Gift to the Department - many thanks from all of us!

Ruth Redelmeier and her late husband, Francis, travelled to libraries and archives across North America to find information about the original owners of their family farm near Richmond Hill, Ont.

In the University of Guelph’s McLaughlin Library, they found a wealth of archival material about the pioneering Patterson family and discovered a home for their own extensive farm records. Files accumulated during the 60 years that the Redelmeiers

raised dairy cattle on Don Head Farms and later The Patch Farms are now part of the University’s rural history collection.

An event was held in the library Oct. 15 to celebrate the Redelmeier family’s donation of archival material and to announce their support for a new College of Arts (COA) Francis and Ruth Redelmeier Professorship in Rural History. Prof. Catharine Wilson will be the first historian to hold the position.

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