Hybrid Event – Rural History Roundtable: Speaker Series 2025

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Rural History Roundtable: Speaker Series 2025

History Department – University of Guelph

In Person and Online

To register to attend online, contact Rebecca Beausaert: rbeausae [at] uoguelph.ca
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Becoming Green Gables: The Making of a Famous Farmhouse

Alan MacEachern, History, Western University
Hosted by Archival and Special Collections
McLaughlin Library, Whitelaw Room 246B
Tuesday, 23 September, 3:30-5pm EST

Drinking Ontario Wine: A Dream?

Marcel Martel, History, York University, and Alex Gagné, Wilfrid Laurier University
MacKinnon Building, Room 132
Wednesday, 29 October, 3:30-5pm EST

Ordinance in the Orchard: WW2 and the Militarization of Rural Ontario

Bram Fookes, Billy Bishop Museum
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Raw Milk Debates: Rural Producers and Consumer Health Concerns, 1956-91

Lydia Kinasewich, History, University of Guelph
MacKinnon Building, Room 132
Wednesday, 19 November, 3:30-5pm EST

University of Guelph - Rural History Roundtable: Speaker Series Fall 2025
Feature Image: Milk Cart [Montreal]. ca. 1881. Artist: Elliot, Arthur, fl. 1881-1882. Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. R9266-2752R Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana.
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Rebecca Beausaert

Rebecca Beausaert is an assistant professor and holder of the Francis and Ruth Redelmeier Professorship in Rural History at the University of Guelph. She is the author of Pursuing Play: Women's Leisure in Small-Town Ontario, 1870-1914, published by University of Manitoba Press in September 2024. Her research interests include food, gender, sport, leisure, agriculture, and the First World War in rural and small-town Ontario.

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