Patricia Bowley, pbowley@rogers.com
research: Agricultural science and economics: soybeans in Ontario, 1920-1940
Lisa Cox, coxl@uoguelph.ca
research: Agricultural Disease Research and Understanding in Canada since 1850
Sharon Weaver, sweaver@uoguelph.ca
Topic: The Back-to-the-land Movement of the 1970s on Cape Breton, Nova Scotia and the Gulf Islands of British Columbia
Rural history is integrated into many of the Department's course offerings with respect to a number of historical fields, but especially:
- History 3660, Canadian Social History
- our research seminar course in North American Rural History, History 4620
- our independent reading courses, Hist 4447 and Hist 4490, are often focused on rural history
- our specific rural history courses (see below...)
10th Anniversary Season!
The Department's famous Rural History Roundtable is ten years old! Congratulations to Dr. Catharine Wilson, Dr. Douglas McCalla and all the speakers and coordinators who have made the Roundtable a College of Arts institution over the years. The Winter 2012 Roundtable schedule will carry on this great tradition with speakers addressing tourism, consumer culture, rural amusements and more. Get the schedule (.pdf)
Rural History Roundtable Winter 2017 schedule is here!
“Fashioning Place and Self in the Life Writing of a Nineteenth Century Newfoundland Mercantile Family” Angela Duffett, PhD Candidate, History Department, Queen's University - Thursday, 2 February, 4:00-5:30 PM
The Scottish Studies Foundation has created the Jill McKenzie Memorial Lecture in Scottish Studies at the University of Guelph. In honour of Jill and her husband Alan McKenzie, an annual lecture will be delivered by one of Scotland's foremost historians at the Fall Colloquium.