Guelph's Rural History Roundtable Speakers' Series is proud to present another semester of original and engaging talks. All welcome!
Thursday 6 February, 7:30 – 9:30pm
Dr. Elizabeth Ritchie: “‘With a Woman and an Axe’: The Labour of Scottish Emigrant Women in Rural Canada, 1782-1851.” Elizabeth teaches at the University of the Highlands and Islands in Scotland and researches education, popular religion, gender and the family in the early 19th-century Scottish Highlands, and women's emigration from Scotland to Canada.