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
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
and
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

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.
Latest posts by Rebecca Beausaert (see all)
- Hybrid Event – Rural History Roundtable: Speaker Series 2025 - September 15, 2025
- “A Very Pretty Canadian Winter Scene”: Ice Skating in Turn-of-the-Century Small-Town Ontario - February 14, 2024
- Registration Open for Virtual Triennial Rural Women’s Studies Association Conference, May 11-15, 2021 - April 2, 2021
- From Kitchen to Kiln: Women’s Culinary Labour on Ontario Tobacco Farms, 1950s-1970s - August 4, 2020
- Call for Papers: Rural Women’s Studies Association Triennial Conference - July 22, 2020