The Champlain Society

Professor Catharine Wilson of Guelph University won this year’s Chalmers Award for Ontario History for her Tenants in Time: Family Strategies, Land and Liberalism in Upper Canada, which was published by McGill-Queen’s University Press. The selection committee, headed again by Dr Françoise Noël of Nipissing University, recognized that “this groundbreaking work has pushed the boundaries outwards into the previously unexplored subject of tenant farming.

Read full article in December's 2009 Pen and Paddle