Rural Diary Archive
Rural Diary Archive

Suggested Readings and Links

THE RURAL DIARY ARCHIVE’S INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS

LINKS TO RURAL DIARY ARCHIVE MINI-DOCUMENTARIES

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LINKS TO RURAL DIARY ARCHIVE RADIO SHOWS

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RURAL CANADIAN HISTORY MOMENTS

Created by students in HIST*4620 Seminar in Canadian Rural History, Winter 2023

SUGGESTED READINGS 

Theses and Publications Featuring Diarists from the Rural Diary Archive: 

Books & Articles 

  • Rovelli, Giulia. “Towards a Historical Corpus of Canadian English Letters and Diaries.” Token: A Journal of English Linguistics 16 (2023): 301-323.  
  • Wilson, Catharine Anne. Being Neighbours: Cooperative Labour and Rural Culture, 1830-1960. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022. Based on over 100 diarists for the Rural Diary Archive. For associated podcasts, a video documentary, and book launch see: https://www.uoguelph.ca/arts/beingneighbours. 
  • Wilson, Catharine. “Reciprocal Work Bees and the Meaning of Neighbourhood.” Canadian Historical Review 82:3 (September 2001): 431-464. 
  • Wilson, Catharine. “The Farm Diary: An Intimate and Ongoing Relationship between Artifact and Keeper.” Agricultural History 92:2 (2018): 150-171. 

Theses 

  • Hendricks, Madison. “From “Stray Thoughts, Wild Dreams, and Fancy Sketches” to a “Condensed, Comparative Record”: Roseltha Wolverton Goble’s Changing Relationship to Diary-Writing, 1857-1919.” University of Guelph, M.A. Thesis, 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/10214/27378. 
  • Paranyi, Ryan. “Methodism and the Christian Gentleman in Mid-Victorian Rural Ontario.” University of Guelph, M.A. Thesis, 2018. Diarists Courtland Olds, Samuel Johnson, John H. Ferguson. http://hdl.handle.net/10214/13015.  
  • Sharp, Samuel. “The Importance of Family: A Micro-History Study of James Cameron and the Life Course of Family, Agriculture and Masculinity in Glengarry County, 1855-1881.” University of Guelph, M.A. Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10214/8479.  
  • Van Allen, Nicholas T. “On the farm, in the Town, and in the City: Nineteenth-Century Networks and Spaces in Rural Middlesex County, Southwestern Ontario.” University of Guelph, Ph.D. Thesis, 2016. Diarists James Glen, Thomas Adams, Frederick Errington. http://hdl.handle.net/10214/9950.  

Blogs & Exhibits 

ADDITIONAL SUGGESTED READINGS & LINKS