Scottish Emigrant Women in Canada: Elizabeth Ritchie at Rural History Roundtable
Date and Time
Location
Florence Partridge Room, 384 McLaughlin Library
Details
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.