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Wellington County History

Wellington County History is a publication of the Wellington County Historical Society. It is published annually and contains articles on various topics related to the history of the county.

Guelph, 1879 - Canadian Illustrated News

Newest Volume

Volume 14 pages: 107 copies 500

• Foreword by Donal B. McKeown, D.V.M.
• The Troubled Healer by James Fitzgerald
• A Beloved Physician by Jane Robertson
• History of Groves Memorial Hospital
• Volunteer Association 1933-2001 by Susan Dunlop
• Some 19th Century Women in Health Care by Anna Jackson
• A Country Doctor by Anna Jackson
• James Alexander Sheppard, D.V.M. (1891-1965) by Joan Bosomworth
• Dr. Vs. Foster, D.V.M. V.S.. (1920-1995) by Joan M. Foster
• Dr. Ben Wingrove, (1924-1985) by Mildred Sinclair
• The Ontario Veterinary College
• In the 1950s: Personal Recollections by Dean Percy, D.V.M.
• Soldiers of The Soil: Farm Labour
• In Wellington County, 1929 - 1945 by B.M. Durtnall
• Zane Grey Throws A Foul Ball in Guelph by Greg Oakes
• Cookbooks of Wellington County by Elizabeth Driver

Previous Volumes

VOLUME ONE - 96 pages, 500 copies

• The Life of Rev. John Smithurst by Rev. Eric Griffin
• The Further Love Affair with Florence Nightingale
• Editorial Booster Spirit in Arthur, 1900-1910 by Patricia McGoldrick Goldberg
• Art Carr's College by Arthur Carr
• Scottish Town Planning. Influences in Early Fergus by Otto Bouwman
• Historical Writing on Wellington County by Steve Thorning

VOLUME TWO - 72 pages, 600 copies

• An Introduction to the Neutrals in Puslinch by Ken Oldridge
• The Raymond Reid Neutral Hamlet by William R. Fitzgerald
• Charles Rankin's Survey of the Owen Sound Road by James Gow
• John Davidson's Letters from Bon Accord by Stephen Thorning
• Early Newspapers and Periodicals as Sources for the History of Wellington County by Joe Gabriel

VOLUME THREE - 78 pages, 700 copies

• 19th Century Building Trends in Puslinch Township by Peter Viol
• Merchant's Tokens in Wellington County by Ross Irwin
• Boosterism and Motion Pictures by Murray McCabe
• The Early Roman Catholic Church in Wellington County by John Keleher
• Professor Ritchie of Elora: Public Servant, General Agent and Entertainer by Al Koop
• The Elora Armoury Hall: Some Historical Notes by Stephen Thorning

VOLUME FOUR - 96 pages, 800 copies

• The Railway Age in Wellington County by Stephen Thorning
• By Streetcar to Toronto: The Toronto Suburban Railway by Donald Coulman
• Remembering Those CPR Branch Lines by Ralph Beaumont
• Lewis Colquhoun: Wellington County Train Robber by Gregory Oakes
• Speed And Service: a Look at Railway Timetables by Stephen Thorning
• Reminiscences of the Railway in Wellington County edited by Bonnie Callan
• Working on the Railway by Harris Bell

VOLUME FIVE - 80 pages, 700 copies

• The Shand Dam: Fifty Years on the Grand by Ralph Beaumont
• Development and the Upper Grand River Before 1938 by Steve Thorning
• The Shand Dam: First and Largest Dam in the Grand River Watershed by Peter Templin
• Reminiscences of Shand Dam Construction by Peter Templin
• Victims of Fiction by Rev. Eric R. Griffin
• Pat Johnson: Seeker of Truth by Donna Goodwin Mann
• Scottish Immigration to Crieff by Mark Spencer

VOLUME 6 - 112 pages, 700 copies

• A Little Treasure to You in the Wilds: Dr. John Pickering's Letter Dated 15 July, 1833 Introduced by E.V. Thompson with a commentary by Dr. John Crellin
• Reminiscences of Early Nursing compiled by S. Dunlop
• John Gilchrist, Puslinch Fiddler edited by Anna Jackson and Susan Dunlop
• A History of Drayton and its Opera House by Barb Mitchell
• Mary Marshall Sheppard, Elora Jeweller by Paul Hutchinson
• For Better, For Worse: Changes in Marriage Customs at the Turn of the Century in Wellington County by Lisa Sabino
• "By His Own Efforts": Successful Tenant Farming County in Wellington County by Lisa Demczuk
• A Tale of Two Tanneries by James Gow
• How We Got into the Shape We're in by Ross W. Irwin

VOLUME 7 - 104 pages, 600 copies

• J.J. Morrison: The Early Years in Wellington County And Toronto, introduced and edited by Terry Crowley
• No Such Flights Permitted: The Clifford Plane Crash by Sheila Hill
• Agricultural Societies: The Driving Force Behind The Rural Economy by Alanna May and Barb Mitchell
• Puslinch Libraries in Puslinch Past by Anna Jackson
• Mary Leslie's Erin: The Most Blackguard Village in Canada by Barb Mitchell
• Private Banking in Wellington County by Steve Thorning

VOLUME 8 - 112 pages, 600 copies

• In Love with Elora introduced by Bob Reynolds
• Elora: the Fascination by A.J. Casson
• The Thirst for Knowledge: Ennotville's Rural Library by Victoria Bloomfield
• "A Very Good Barn in Guelph" The Founding of the Communist Party of Canada by Ian Easterbrook
• The Italian Community in Guelph Research Sources by Lisa Sabino
• The Place Names of Wellington County by Ian Easterbrook
• Augustus Jones and the Jones Baseline by Steve Thorning
• Macdonald Consolidated School by Judith Nasby
• "Public School" by A.D. Hales
• Food Rationing a Part of World War Ii Canada by Joyce Blyth

VOLUME 9 - 112 pages, 600 copies

• Dr. Henry Orton: Medicine in Early Nineteenth Century Wellington County by Mark Cortiula
• The Victory Mission in Mount Forest: The Summer of 1915 by Ian Easterbrook
• Thomson Beattie The Titanic's Last Survivor by Alan Hustak
• Birds in Wellington County: The Past, Present And Future by Alex Middleton
• History Series in The Early Newspapers by Ian Easterbrook
• Beef Wellington by Greg Oakes
• Strange Destiny: The Garafraxa Settlement of Richard Pierpoint by David Meyler
• The Missionaries in The Black Settlement of The Queen's Bush by Linda Brown-Kubisch
• Flo Rogers Remembers Businesses in Salem and Elora by Joan Bosomworth

Volume 10 - 125 pages, 500 copies

• Organized Into One Working Whole: The Women's Institutes of Wellington County by Linda M. Ambrose
• The Women's Institutes of Wellington County "Catalyst for Preserving and Researching Our Past" by Anna Jackson
• Moving the Mail: the Postal System in Wellington County 1849-1917 by G.T. Bloomfield
• Changes among the Mammals of Wellington County, 1640-1997 by C.A. Campbell, K.A. Cowcill and T.E. Martens
• Evolution in the Mapping of Southern Ontario and Wellington County by A. Wayne Caston

Volume 11 - pages: 105 copies 500

• The Wellington County House of Industry by Terry Crowley
• The Museum-maker by Campbell Cork
• Irish Immigration to Puslinch Township by Anna Jackson
• Fury of the Mounted by Gregory Oakes
• "Tell Them I'm Glad I Came..."
• Trooper Charles Bailey Writes From the Boer War compiled by Ian Easterbrook
• An Unshakeable Optimist by James Go
• Fires of Clifford's Business Section 1913-1993 by Sheila Hill
• Many Members of Royal Family Visited Canada's Royal City compiled by Ian Easterbrook

Volume 12 - pages: 92 copies 500

• Introduction by Steve Thoming
• The Farmerettes and Ontario's Land Army compiled by Jane Robertson
• Cattle Breeding in Wellington County: The Story of Rowland Wingfield by Anna Jackson
• Trooper Ray Muir: Chicken Plucker by Greg Oakes
• Barns in Wellington by Greg Oakes
• John W. Gilchrist (1865-1942)
• A Rich Life Richly Observed: Barn Raising; the Threshing by Anna Jackson
• Wellington County Plowmen's Association by Anna Jackson
• Agriculture for Women At the O.A.C. by Gloria Troyer
• H. Gordon Green Kenneth C. Cragg ... A Second Look by Ian K. Easterbrook
• Margaret E Leatherbarrow Gold in the Grass (1954)
• The Ontario Agricultural College:from School to World-class University by Terry Crowley
• Ontario Agricultural College Contested: A Tribute to R. Alex Sim by Terry Crowley
• John Kenneth Galbraith A Life in Our Times: Memoirs (1981)

Volume 13 - pages: 102 copies 500

• The McWilliam House A Wellington County
• Painted Hallway in Historic Context by Nancy-Lou Patterson
• Mount Forest House Paintings Reveal Early Cultural Heritage by Rosemary Wagner
• Wanted: 'A Two-fisted, Temperate Man Beatty Brothers Factory
• The Fergus Brass Band and the 1919 Bandmaster Search by lian goodall
• 'A Most Impracticable Swamp': John McDonald's Survey Diary of the Owen Sound Road and Arthur Township, 1840-41 by Ross D. Fair
• Preserving the Past An Examination of Food Preservation Through the Memories and Voices of Wellington County Women by Catherine Reid
• The Check King of Fergus by Greg Oakes
• The Day Tom Longboat Raced in Erin by Ken Weber
• Pioneering in the Blood by Barb Mitchell
• Wellington County, North Dakota by Gregory Oakes

Here is a summary of the areas covered in Volumes 1-9 inclusive:

Call for Papers

• Call for Papers: The publications committee welcomes essays on topics clearly related to the county. For more information please contact Ian Easterbrook at (519)843-6576 or Wayne Bridge at (519)787-2807.
• If you are interested in joining the Society send $15.00 for individual membership, $17.00 for a family or an institutional membership to:

Wellington County Historical Society
P.O. Box 5
Fergus, ON
Canada
N1M 2W7

The membership fee includes a copy of the publication Wellington County History produced each year.

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