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Final speaker in rural history winter series online on March 29

The Rural History Roundtable is a speaker series that has been in operation since 2002. It hosts scholars of international repute and provides a venue for graduate students to present their latest research. It is vertically intergrated drawing into its fold undergraduates, graduates, post-docs, faculty, archivists, alumni, and other members of the public.

Please join The Rural History Roundtable on Wednesday, March 29th at 2:30pm EST, as the final speaker of the 2023 Winter Roundtable Series, Matthew Dougherty, will be giving a talk titled, "Occupy the Soil: Home Missionaries and Canadian Farming, 1812 to 1867."

For more information see: uoguelph.ca/arts/rural/roundtable

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