Back issues of the Ontario Historical Society’s bi-annual publication, Ontario History, are now available online from 2013 to 2017.
Some of the articles published in the last five years that may interest genealogists include:
Cows, Sheep & Scots: Livestock and Immigrant Strategies in Rural Upper Canada, 1814-1851 (Volume 109, Number 1, Spring 2017, pp. 1-159)
The Ballygiblins: British Emigration Policy, Irish Violence, and Immigrant Reception in Upper Canada (Volume 108, Issue 1, Spring, 2016, p. 1–23)
“The varieties and unsettled habits of this new land”: Examining Family Strategies in Upper Canada through the Journals of Mary O’Brien (Volume 108, Issue 1, Spring, 2016, p. 111–125)
Kingston Hospital: A Community Hospital in Upper Canada in mid-Nineteenth Century (Volume 107, Issue 2, Fall, 2015, p. 198–212)
Women, Marriage and Property in Upper Canada: The Case of Elizabeth Sanders (Volume 105, Issue 1, Spring, 2013, p. 98–125)
Ontario History has been a peer-reviewed scholarly journal since 1899. Articles cover a wide range of historical subjects including, but not exclusive to, politics, intellectual history, First Nations, gender history, business, urban themes, agriculture, archaeology, military history, biography, recreation, architecture, religion, and ethnic history. Each volume also contains several book reviews that shed light on social history.
Note that the most recent two issues, Fall 2017 and Spring 2018, can only be accessed online through subscription.
