Preface – Dorothy Duncan

Welcome and Introduction – Jeanne Hughes

Greetings from the Minister of Citizenship, Culture and Recreation, The Honourable Helen Johns

The World One Thousand Years Ago – Ivana Elbl

From First Nations to Newcomers: A Land in Transition

History of the Mississaugas of the Credit – Margaret Sault

The Land and I Are One – Esther Osche

Lives in Transition: Dynamic Responses to a New Socio-Economic Landscape ca. 1000 AD to Contact – Lisa Rankin

Aboriginal Population Movements in Southern Ontario, 1600-1800: A Historian’s Perspective – Carl Benn

The Middle Ground: The Formation of a Frontier Society (summary) – Douglas Leighton

From the Beginning……

Norsemen in Pre-Columbian Ontario? Or Not? – Joan Vastokas

The Quest for Gandy: Rediscovering a Cultural Crossroads on the North Shore of Lake Ontario – Torn Mohr

Ontario’s Loyalist Founders: Military Settlers – Mary Beacock Fryer

Changing Worlds: Loyalist Settlement in Quebec’s “Upper Country” – Barbara Snyder

Elihu Pease: A Newcomer to the North York Area – Louis Badone

In Search of A.B.’s Kitchen – Christine Ritsma

Adventures in “Mockland” – Carolyn J. Blackstock

Anna Jameson and The First Nations: Fiction Versus Fact – Duncan C. McKillop, L. Jane Hughes

From Babies to Battlegrounds

A Difference of Perspective: Blacks, Whites, and Separate Schools in Late Nineteenth Century Ontario – Colin McFarquhar

Home Children and Child Migration: A Suppressed Chapter in Canadian History? – David Lorente

Mistresses and Merchants: Women in the Upper Canadian Market Place – E. Jane Errington

“Nothing More or Less than Devils”: Women of the Naval and Military Establishments in Upper Canada –Kelly Nesbitt

The Great Disruption: Toronto, Canada West and the American Civil War – Eric Jarvis

“To the Station! To the Station!” Toronto Citizens and the Final Year of The Great War – Ian Miller

“If we fail in Ontario… I for one shall give up the fight in despair”: A Short History of Ontario as the Principal Battleground in Federal Elections – Kurt Peacock

Interpreting and Preserving History

A Poetic Journey Through 1000 Years at Pawating: The Meeting Place – Bruce W. Bedell

Relevant to 2000? The Experience of James Austin – Douglas Fyfe

Architecture Honouring the Dead – Jennifer McKendry

Fothergill, Barnett and Smith: Museum Makers, Overlooked But Not Forgotten – John C. Carter

The Tobourn Headframe (summary) – Lydia Ross Alexander

Fifty Years in the Trenches of History – Gerry Boyce

Interpreting Ontario’s History in a National Museum: the Canadian Museum of Civilization’s Experience – Paul Robertson

The St. Thomas’ Church Cemetery Project, Belleville Ontario – Gerry Boyce, Ann Herring, Shelly Saunders, Larry Sawchuck

Towards a Modern Ontario

John Graves Simcoe, The Birth of Modern Ontario, and the Frontier Crisis of the 1790s – Carl Benn

The History of Agricultural Societies and Fairs in Ontario, 1792-1992 – Guy Scott

Inheritance Practices in Rural Erin Township, Wellington County, Ontario, 1835-1900 (summary) – Johannes I. Bakker

The Influence of the Welland Canal on Today’s Niagara Peninsula – Roberta M. Styran, Robert R. Taylor

The Twentieth Plane Controversy: A Chapter in the History of Ontario Spiritualism – Stan McMullin

“Toronto has come to be known as a philanthropic city.” Toronto Philanthropists and Their Philanthropies After the Turn of the Century – Thomas Adam

From Berlin to the Trek of the Conestoga: A Revisionist Approach to Waterloo County’s German Identity (summary) – Geoffrey Hayes

Stock Market: Toronto Junction Style – Diana Fancher

Teaching Gender to Junior Farmers: Ontario Agricultural Cartoons for Youth in the 1950s – Linda M. Ambrose

“The Special Needs of Women’s Education”: Controversy at the University of Toronto, 1884-1909 – Sara Z. Burke

Youth and Citizenship: The Extracurriculum in Ontario High Schools, 1920-1940 – Cynthia R. Comacchio

“Where is Patrick Dundon?” Emigration and Recreating Families and Communities in Ontario – E. Jane Errington

Ontarians Who Have Changed the World: Banting and Osler (summary) – Michael Bliss

Symposium Summary – Frank Bartoszek

Contributors

Acknowledgements