- Title:
- The community and the fair : Vankleek Hill, West Hawkesbury Township and the Agricultural Fair, 1900 to 1950
- Creator:
- Smith, Dorothy-Jane
- Date Created:
- 2012
- Degree Awarded:
- Master of Arts
- Subjects:
- Recreation
- Geographical Focus:
- Canada Ontario Vankleek Hill
- Supporting Materials:
- n/a
- Description:
- This study of social networks and representations of community is grounded in a linguistically bifurcated place—West Hawkesbury Township and Vankleek Hill, in Prescott County, Ontario—and focused on one social space, the Vankleek Hill Agricultural Society and Fair prior to 1950. The Society reflected family and economic relations that underlay local social structures, allowing a few Francophones to be leaders even as Anglophones kept majority control. _ The Society represented the agricultural community as materially modem and progressive, but ignored issues of rural depopulation and marginalization and only slowly accommodated the wider needs of the town. The Board and its captive local press emphasized the masculine elements of the fair in defining rural life. Children were encouraged at the rural school fairs to accept city-based reformers’ view of men as sole breadwinners but, like the fair board. they did not ignore the productive value of women's and children's work.
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- Smith, Dorothy-Jane. 2012. "The community and the fair : Vankleek Hill, West Hawkesbury Township and the Agricultural Fair, 1900 to 1950", Department of History, Carleton University
- Link to this page:
- https://cuhistory.github.io/grads/items/hist_92.html
Rights
- Rights:
- Copyright the author, all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.