Douglas McCalla

Education

Ph.D. Oxford University, 1972
M.A. University of Toronto, 1965
B.A. (Honours) Queen's University, 1964
 

Professional

Department of History, University of Guelph, 2002 -
Canada Research Chair in Canadian Rural History, 2002 - 2008
Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies, MA Program in Area Studies, University of Tsukuba, Japan, 1995-1996
Trent University, 1968-2001
 

Research

Canadian rural history
Canadian economic and social history
Ontario history, settlement of Canada, 1600-1939
Consumption in rural upper Canada, 1808-1861
1891 Census, Public Use Sample for Ontario (with colleagues)
 

Publications

Consumers in the Bush: Shopping in Rural Upper Canada (McGill-Queens University Press, 2015).

“Seeing pioneers as modern: rural Upper Canadians go shopping,” in Temps, espace et modernités. Mélanges offerts à Serge Courville et Normand Séguin, Brigitte Caulier et Yvan Rousseau dirs. (Québec: Les Presses de l'Université Laval, 2009), 137-50.

“Des Pays d’En Haut au Haut-Canada: la formation d’une économie de colonisation”, Histoire, Économie et Société, 4/2008 (décembre 2008), 87-107.

“Economy and Empire: Britain and Canadian Development, 1783-1971,” in Canada and the British Empire, edited by Phillip A. Buckner (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), 235-53.

“Sojourners in the Snow? The Scots in Business in Nineteenth-Century Canada”, in A Kingdom of the Mind: How the Scots Helped Make Canada, edited by Peter Rider and Heather McNabb (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006), 76-96.

"The Economic Impact of the Great War," in Canada and the First World War: Essays in Honour of Robert Craig Brown, edited by David MacKenzie (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005), 138-53.

2005 “Upper Canadians and Their Guns: an Exploration via Country Store Accounts (1808-61),” Ontario History 97 (2005): 121-37.

"A World Without Chocolate: Grocery Purchases at Some Upper Canadian Country Stores, 1808-61," Agricultural History 79 (2005): 147-72.

"The Rhodes Scholarships in Canada and Newfoundland," in The History of the Rhodes Trust, 1902-1999, edited by Anthony Kenny (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), 203-250.

"Textile Purchases by Some Ordinary Upper Canadians, 1808-1861," Material History Review 53 (Spring-Summer 2001): 4-27.

"The Ontario Economy in the Long Run," Ontario History 90, no. 2 (Autumn 1998): 97-115.

"Retailing in the Countryside: Upper Canadian General Stores in the Mid-19th Century," Business and Economic History 26, no. 2 (Winter 1997): 393-403.

co-edited with Michael Huberman, Perspectives on Canadian Economic History; New Canadian Readings Series (Mississauga: Copp Clark Longman, 1994).

Planting the Province: The Economic History of Upper Canada, 1784-1870, Ontario Historical Studies Series (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993).

editor, The Development of Canadian Capitalism: Essays in Canadian Business History, New Canadian Readings Series (Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman, 1990).

The Upper Canada Trade, 1834-1872: A Study of the Buchanans' Business (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1979).