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...Catharine Anne Wilson Organizing Rural Women: The Federated Women’s Institutes of Ontario, 1897-1919 . Margaret C. Kechnie . Copyright 2003 Agricultural History Society 2003 638 / Agricultural History Ecology of the Red River in 1806" looks at the explorer Peter Custis's contributions...

...Sean W. Gouglas Copyright 2001 Agricultural History Society 2001 [Footnotes] 1 Gordon Darroch and Lee Soltow, Property and Inequality in Victorian Ontario: Structural Patterns and Cultural Communities in the 1871 Census (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994 ), 18...

...PAUL J. P. SANDUL Abstract This essay spotlights the development of Ontario, California, in the last decades of the nineteenth century. It demonstrates that many agricultural communities in California, particularly so-called agricultural colonies, represent a unique rural suburban type labeled here...

...Victoria Seta Cosby [email protected] Cultivating Community: Women and Agricultural Fairs in Ontario . By Jodey Nurse . Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press , 2022 . 360 pp. $39.95 , paperback, ISBN 9780228009153. Copyright © 2023 the Agricultural History Society...

...Wendy Mitchinson And on That Farm He Had a Wife: Ontario Farm Women and Feminism, 1900–1970 . Monda Halpern . Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 Book Reviews / 731 quickly recovered from about 8,000 in 1919 to a peak of 25,000 by 1921. Unfortunately, the AWIU went...

...R. Bruce Shepard Ontario’s Cattle Kingdom: Purebred Breeders and Their World, 1870–1920 . Margaret Derry . Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 708 / Agricultural History America, which gave meaning to a dystopian sense of modemity. As I have argued elsewhere, the stories...

..., places, and things, and to add new layers of meaning to objects, thus allowing women to act as custodians in addition to creators. © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018 Notes 1. Historical Atlas of the County of Wellington, Ontario, Compiled, Drawn and Published from Personal...

... The Agricultural History Society 2025 In Harvesting Labour , Edward Dunsworth shows how labor power, organization, demographics, and political influence changed from the 1920s to 2020 in southwestern Ontario's Tobacco Belt. By seamlessly linking these subjects in an engaging and smoothly written piece...

...Douglas McCalla Abstract Based on account books, a frequently overlooked type of source, this is a study of grocery purchases made by sample customers from some country stores in Upper Canada (Ontario), in selected years between 1808 and 1861. Although literary sources suggest otherwise, no one...

...Catharine Anne Wilson Abstract Words are the usual focus of diary scholars. The physical diary is the focus of this article, along with the “diary-keeping” practices of Ontario-based farm men and women from 1830 to 1930. The convenient, compact, sturdy blank book was preferred by most diarists...

..., being a historiography of the agricultural history of Quebec, Ontario, and the prairies in the nineteenth century. It is an ambitious book that introduces the key issues and demonstrates the depth of the literature. Canadian history has been shaped by agriculture. Focusing on the wheat staple, Russell...

... of British Columbia, 1998) 3 Lloyd Rand, "’What Wilt Thou Lord That I Do?’ The Christian Farmers Federation of Ontario: Neo-Calvinism, Agriculture and Ethnicity" (master’s thesis, Queen’s University, Kingston, 1994) 4 H. Richard Niebuhr , Christ and Culture (New York: Harper and Row...

... Ontario Women for the Modern Energy Regime, 1900–1940,” Ontario History 107 , no. 1 (Spring 2015 ): 36 – 59 ; R. W. Sandwell , “Introduction,” in Powering Up Canada: A History of Power, Fuel and Energy from 1600 , ed. R. W. Sandwell ( Montreal : McGill-Queen’s University Press...

... keeping was a key to that science. In the 1870s the examination of agriculture at the Ontario Agricultural College was on the history of Shorthorns, and revolved around the methods of British breeders Robert and Charles Colling and also Robert Bakewell . See Sessional Papers (hereafter SP) 13...

..., role model, and friend. born on his parents dairy farm on may 12, 1921, near london, ontario, he spent his youth milking cows and showing prize-winning holsteins. Knowing that farming was not what he ultimately wanted as his life s work, he enrolled in the university of Western ontario, graduating...

... Turek , Poles in Manitoba (Toronto: Polish Alliance Press, 1967 ); Francis’s In Search of Utopia Leo Driedger , "E. K. Francis’ Search for Utopia: A Tribute," Journal of Mennonite Studies 13 ( Spring 1995 ): 89 -107. 6 Donald Akenson , The Irish in Ontario...

... and to consider the local and historical contexts of each plant, and in this way the book is a welcome resource for all parties. Joshua MacFadyen University of Western Ontario Soft Soil, Black Grapes: The Birth of Italian Winemaking in California. By Simone Cinotto. New York: New York University Press, 2012. 288...

.... lisa cox Ontario Veterinary College University of Guelph Fruits of Eden: David Fairchild and America s Plant Hunters. By amanda Harris. gainesville: university Press of Florida, 2015. 312 pp., $24.95, hardback, iSBn 978-0-8130-6061-3. Soybeans, navel oranges, avocados, mangoes foods familiar...

... reading for its sobering account of the Cuban experience, as well as for its critical reflection on the factors that might encourage or inhibit the success of sustainable agriculture elsewhere. Adriana Premat University of Western Ontario Blazing Cane: Sugar Communities, Class, and State Formation in Cuba...

... Canadianandwomen'shistoryrespectivelyattheCarletonUni? versity.This articlehas benefittedfrom a lively Internetexchange with KrisInwood at the Uni? versityof Guelph(Ontario),whomwe thankfor his useful suggestions.We also wantto thankDr. F. Hendrickx(Nijmegen, The Netherlands)for his commentson a previousversion of this text, presentedatthe...