History News
The History Society meets on Wednesdays @5.30 pm in McKinnon 313.
The society holds its meetings in McKn 313 @ 5.30 pm on Wednesdays. All lovers of History are invited.
Professor Catherine Wilson inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Congratulations are due to Catherine Wilson on been inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Here she signs the Royal Society's Charter Book that contains all the signatures of Fellows going back to 1883.
Professor Catherine Wilson interviewd on CBC The Morning Edition
"A Guelph historian is using centuries-old farm diaries to tell the stories of over 150 Canadian farmers and farming communities that existed between the 19th and 20th centuries." Read the complete CBC blog entry on the interview and listen to the extended interview at @ http://ow.ly/aciH30fqprR
Former Guelph grad to give the Cassidy-Reid Lecture September 28
On September 28 the University hosts Dr. Benjamin Hoy, a Guelph History BA grad and Stanford PhD who is now a faculty member at the University of Saskatchewan. He returns to Guelph to give the Cassidy-Reid Lecture. This lectureship was established in honour of retired History faculty Dr Keith Cassidy and Dr Richard Reid and is held every two years.
Dr. Hoy, a celebrated young scholar, is also the son of two retired English professors, Helen Hoy and Thomas King, and is one of the country's youngest and most promising scholars of aboriginal history.
Please join us:
The value of a History degree - Universities Canada
An abundance of career options
Liberal arts graduates pursue many different career paths. For example, almost 40,000 employed Canadians have a bachelor’s degree in history. Of that group, 18 percent work in management occupations and 23 percent work in business, finance and administrative positions (Statistics Canada, National Household Survey, 2011). View the full report on Universities Canada's website.
Drs. Luby and Hayday - Award Winners at CHA
At the Canadian Historical Association Awards ceremony in May our new Aboriginal historian, Brittany Luby, received the John Bullen prize for the best dissertation defended in the last year. Our Graduate Chair, Matthew Hayday, won the prize for the best article published in the Journal of the Canadian Historical Association.
Congratulations from all of us!
Why Canada Made Marijuana Illegal: Catherine Carstairs on CBC
Canada made marijuana illegal 94 years ago and no one's sure why
Ninety-four years ago Canada became one of the first countries to ban a substance virtually no one was using. A University of Guelph professor who penned a book on the history of illegal drugs in Canada says after nearly a century of marijuana prohibition, no one is really sure why it was made illegal in the first place.
"We don't actually know," Dr. Catherine Carstairs told The Morning Edition host Craig Norris Tuesday.
Rural History Roundtable Roundup: Sasha Mullally on the Country Doctor
On March 30th, the Rural History Round Table wrapped up another successful season with Dr. Sasha Mullally, associate professor of history at the University of New Brunswick. Dr. Mullally's talk: "The Heroics and Poetics of Interwar Medicine" deconstructed the "country doctor" icon by examining stories about rural doctors which have been published overtime. Focusing on doctors practicing in Maine and Nova Scotia, Mullally separated the myth from the reality.
The Rural History Roundtable returns in September. See you then!
Rebecca Beausaert on Canadian Culinary History Exhibit
The Canadian Culinary History Exhibit opens April 7 in McLaughlin Library on the University of Guelph main campus. All are welcome to attend the opening!
From Guelph Today:
Cooks are an essential bridge between farmers and consumers, and always have been.