Events

Rural History Speaker Series for Fall 2024

• Thursday, 26 September, 3:30 - 5:00 pm. Rebecca Beausaert, University of Guelph. Book Launch. 'Tea Meetings, Concerts, and Other Things Too Numerous to Mention': Women's Leisure in Small-Town Ontario, 1870-1914. 
• Thursday, 17 October, 3:30 - 5:00 pm. Edward Dunsworth, McGill University. "Beyond the Labour Shortage Narrative: A New History of Canadian Farm Labour."
• Tuesday, 12 November, 3:30 - 5:00 pm. Ross Fair, Toronto Metropolitan University. "A Measure of Improvement in Upper Canada: The 1852 Agricultural Exhibition."

Rural History Speaker Series for Fall 2024

• Thursday, 26 September, 3:30 - 5:00 pm. Rebecca Beausaert, University of Guelph. Book Launch. 'Tea Meetings, Concerts, and Other Things Too Numerous to Mention': Women's Leisure in Small-Town Ontario, 1870-1914. 
• Thursday, 17 October, 3:30 - 5:00 pm. Edward Dunsworth, McGill University. "Beyond the Labour Shortage Narrative: A New History of Canadian Farm Labour."
• Tuesday, 12 November, 3:30 - 5:00 pm. Ross Fair, Toronto Metropolitan University. "A Measure of Improvement in Upper Canada: The 1852 Agricultural Exhibition."

Rural History Speaker Series for Fall 2024

• Thursday, 26 September, 3:30 - 5:00 pm. Rebecca Beausaert, University of Guelph. Book Launch. 'Tea Meetings, Concerts, and Other Things Too Numerous to Mention': Women's Leisure in Small-Town Ontario, 1870-1914. 
• Thursday, 17 October, 3:30 - 5:00 pm. Edward Dunsworth, McGill University. "Beyond the Labour Shortage Narrative: A New History of Canadian Farm Labour."
• Tuesday, 12 November, 3:30 - 5:00 pm. Ross Fair, Toronto Metropolitan University. "A Measure of Improvement in Upper Canada: The 1852 Agricultural Exhibition."

Three online lectures offered through the University of Guelph during Winter 2025 with thanks to the Francis and Ruth Redelmeier Professorship in Rural History.

• January 23: Local Need, Lasting Legacies: Japanese Canadian Internment & Rural Medicine, Letitia Johnson, University of Victoria
• February 12: The Medieval Pig, Dolly Jørgensen, University of Stavanger
• March 12: Mmm...Manitoba: The Stories Behind the Foods We Eat, Kimberley Moore and Janis Thiessen, University of Winnipeg

Three online lectures offered through the University of Guelph during Winter 2025 with thanks to the Francis and Ruth Redelmeier Professorship in Rural History.

• January 23: Local Need, Lasting Legacies: Japanese Canadian Internment & Rural Medicine, Letitia Johnson, University of Victoria
• February 12: The Medieval Pig, Dolly Jørgensen, University of Stavanger
• March 12: Mmm...Manitoba: The Stories Behind the Foods We Eat, Kimberley Moore and Janis Thiessen, University of Winnipeg

The History Department at the University of Guelph is delighted to announce a search for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Rural North American history.

Three online lectures offered through the University of Guelph during Winter 2025 with thanks to the Francis and Ruth Redelmeier Professorship in Rural History.

• January 23: Local Need, Lasting Legacies: Japanese Canadian Internment & Rural Medicine, Letitia Johnson, University of Victoria
• February 12: The Medieval Pig, Dolly Jørgensen, University of Stavanger
• March 12: Mmm...Manitoba: The Stories Behind the Foods We Eat, Kimberley Moore and Janis Thiessen, University of Winnipeg