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BY TERESA PITMAN for @ Guelph, MONDAY, JUNE 25, 2012
 
Think of them as the 19th-century version of TripAdvisor with one major disadvantage: the hotel and inn visitors’ books of that time period were kept on-site, so you couldn’t read warnings like the one above until after you checked in. History professor Kevin James is using the visitors’ books from several Irish inns and hotels to describe how people narrated their travel experiences. The project is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
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BY TERESA PITMAN for @ Guelph, MONDAY, JUNE 25, 2012
 
Think of them as the 19th-century version of TripAdvisor with one major disadvantage: the hotel and inn visitors’ books of that time period were kept on-site, so you couldn’t read warnings like the one above until after you checked in. History professor Kevin James is using the visitors’ books from several Irish inns and hotels to describe how people narrated their travel experiences. The project is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
Read the rest of the story @ Guelph.

The Department's own Dr. Terry Crowley has been awarded a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in recognition of his services to the community. The medal will be given at a Guelph Arts Council ceremony in the Fall of 2012. Congratulations from all of us!

The Department's own Dr. Terry Crowley has been awarded a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in recognition of his services to the community. The medal will be given at a Guelph Arts Council ceremony in the Fall of 2012. Congratulations from all of us!

In Conversation with
JIAN GHOMESHI

Saturday September 15, 2012 at 4pm

Rozanski Hall room 104, University of Guelph

General Admission: $10/ticket; Students $5/ticketTickets
available at the door or in advance at www.ticketpro.ca or
The Bookshelf, 41 Quebec Street, Guelph

Oh, The Humanities!: Canada’s Language Czars Losing their Voice

By Kathryn Blaze Carlson for the National Post, May 30, 2012

Matthew Hayday remembers singing along to Angele Arsenault’s Bonjour, My Friend as it spun on his Fisher Price record player as a child. His parents had brought the album home for him, along with a bilingual boardgame he used to play with his sisters.

The record and the boardgame were both part of an educational kit called Oh! Canada, produced by the country’s first Commissioner of Official Languages and doled out for free somewhere in the order of two million copies. It was 1974 — five years after prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s government passed the Official Languages Act and enshrined Canadians’ rights to access government services in the language of their choice. The act tasked the commissioner with protecting the status of both English and French and, most explicitly, with conducting investigations into language-related complaints. (Read the story)

Oh, The Humanities!: Canada’s Language Czars Losing their Voice

By Kathryn Blaze Carlson for the National Post, May 30, 2012

Matthew Hayday remembers singing along to Angele Arsenault’s Bonjour, My Friend as it spun on his Fisher Price record player as a child. His parents had brought the album home for him, along with a bilingual boardgame he used to play with his sisters.

The record and the boardgame were both part of an educational kit called Oh! Canada, produced by the country’s first Commissioner of Official Languages and doled out for free somewhere in the order of two million copies. It was 1974 — five years after prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s government passed the Official Languages Act and enshrined Canadians’ rights to access government services in the language of their choice. The act tasked the commissioner with protecting the status of both English and French and, most explicitly, with conducting investigations into language-related complaints. (Read the story)

When the City of Guelph opened the new inter-modal transportation terminal on Carden Street on May 13, 2012, the bus shelters within St. George's Square received a new look.  MFA graduate candidate Ella McGeough received the first commission to transform the look of these shelters from advertising boards to showcasing art work. Her series is called "Bon Voyage" and will remain in place until the end of August. 

Watch the video - kitchener.ctv.ca/

This year the University of Guelph hosts "Bees to Beef: Farm(ed) Animals in Environmental History", the Canadian History and Environment Summer School. Organized by History Department post-doctoral researcher Jennifer Bonnell, the event features Guelph faculty from Environmental Biology, Animal and Poultry Science, Geography and History, environmental historians from around the North American northeast, tours of the OVC and Rowe Farms, talks on the history of mink farming, chicken breeding, urban markets, among many other people and things. This event is designed to provide a forum for interaction between graduate students, post doctoral fellows, faculty members and others, and is held in conjunction with the Network in Canadian History & Environment in a different city each spring. Get the final program (.pdf) or visit: http://niche-canada.org/chess2012