History

Nelson, C. - M.A
The Very Best Crop: Rural Children and the Family Economy in Early Twentieth Century Huron County - Dr. Catharine Wilson, advisor

Robertson, B. - M.A
Reaching Anti-Maudernism: Investigations into the Memory of L.M. Montgomery - Dr. Alan Gordon, advisor

O'Reilly, R. - M.A
'In a Situation of Great Distress': The Emigrant Agency, Poverty, and the Irish in Nineteenth-Cenutry Upper Canada - Dr. Catharine Wilson, advisor

Scott, J. - M.A
The Scottish Handloom Weavers, 1830-1850: Politics, Economics, and Identity - Dr. Kevin James, advisor

Andres, J. - M.A
"Power to the Remotest Hamlet: The Promotion of Rural Hydro in Ontario, 1910-1929 - Dr. Catharine Wilson, advisor

Cox, Lisa - M.A
Lesion Milkshakes, Markets, and Science: Bovine Tuberculosis Policy in Canada, 1895-1922 - Dr. Stuart McCook, advisor

McIsaac, J. - M.A
Running in Circles: Fenianism in Rural and Small Town Ontario, 1865-1868 - Dr. Catharine Wilson

Dunlop, S. - M.A
Across the Generations: A Case Study of Family Poverty and Public Relief in Wellington County, 1889-1912 - Dr. Terry Crowley, advisor

MacFadyen, Joshua - Ph.D
Fashioning Flax: Industry, Region, and Work in North American Fibre and Linseed Oil, 1850-1930 - Dr. Douglas McCalla, advisor

Finlay, C. - M.A
My Heart is more with the Land, than with 'Military Affairs': How Ontario Agricultural College and Manitoba Agricultural College Students Negotiated their Masculinity in the First World War - Dr. Catharine Wilson, advisor

Nurse, Jodey - Ph.D
Reaching Rural Ontario: The County of Peel Agricultural Society and the Peel County Fall Fair, 1853-1883 - Dr. Catharine Wilson, advisor

Photograph: Beekeeping, Reuben Sallows collection, University of Guelph Library, Archives, and Special Collections, Agricultural History (XA1 MS A182 #0626)

The following is a list of various external websites, including Museums, Universities, Archives, etc. that provide or direct visitors to resources or do research in rural history.

Museums

Regional

Resources

Maps and Data

University of Guelph Data Collection:

Case Study

Flax in Waterloo County, 1861-1871

This case study joins the 1861 Canadian Census to a modern map of lots and concessions and uses the 1861 Tremaine map of Waterloo township, Canada West, to find addresses and check for historical accuracy. The data it displays are flax production figures, but they could just as easily be information about people or other produce.