Canadian Papers in Rural History

Volume IV (1984)

An Orderly Reconstruction: Prairie Agriculture in World War Two
by Ian MacPherson and John Herd Thompson, pp. 11-32. 

Farm Making Costs in Early Ontario
by Robert E. Ankli and Kenneth J. Duncan, pp. 33-49. 

Tenant vs. Owner Occupied Farms in York County, Ontario, 1871
by William L. Marr, pp. 50-71. 

Corporate Farming on Vancouver Island: The Puget Sound's Agricultural Company, 1846-1857
by Barry M. Gough, pp. 72-82. 

Commercial Agriculture in the Region North and Northeast of Calcutta During the Nineteenth Century
by Kenneth Kelly, pp. 83-07. 

Migration and the Mennonites: Nineteenth Century waterloo County, Ontario
by Robert S. Dilley, pp. 108-129. 

Migration, Pioneer Settlement and the Life Course: The First Families of an Ontario Township
by Darrell A. Norris, pp. 130-152. 

Irish Immigrants and the "Critical Years" in Eastern Ontario: The Case of Montague Township, 1821-1881
by Glenn J. Lockwood, pp.153-178.

"A Pamphlet of a Very Scurrilous Nature": A Libel Case from Upper Canada of the 1840s
by Colm J. Brannigan, pp. 179-199. 
Colm Brannigan uses a variety of legal evidence to show in a specific case the way in which law came to be an important modifier of rural behaviour patterns.

Lowering "The Walls of Oblivion": the Revolution in Postal Communications in Central Canada, 1851-1911
by Brian Osborne and Robert Pike, pp. 200-225.
The postal service in the last century was every bit as important a cultural revolution in rural life as has been the evolution of electronically transmitted information in the twentieth century.

Exploring the Price of Farmland in Two Ontario Localities since Letters Patenting
by Edward C. Gray and Barry E. Prentice, pp. 226-239. 
Researchers who rely solely on the Abstract Index of Deeds should study carefully Messrs. Gray and Prentice's warning.

Demographic Analysis and Regional Dialect Surveys in Canada: Data Collection and Use
by Enoch Padolsky and Ian Pringle, pp. 240-276. 

A Statutory Chronology of Eastern Ontario, 1788-1981
by Thomas A. Hillman, pp.277-338. 
Thomas Hillman presents the first part of an important project which involves a codification of all the municipal boundary changes in Ontario.