Library Lecture: \u00ab\u00a0Women and Botany in 19th-Century Canada\u00a0\u00bb by Ann Shteir<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/cf-public-us\/morrin-centre-141605\/media\/L3384-1?t=1733432584203770\")
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Celebrating Historical Research and Historical Researchers: Women and Botany in 19th<\/sup>-Century Canada. An Illustrated Talk<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Papers in the\u00a0Transactions of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec<\/em>\u00a0from the 1820s and 1830s are historical documents by individuals in early 19th<\/sup>-century Canada who were searching for knowledge about nature in a \u201cnew land\u201d and who also wanted to \u201cexcite in the rising generation a taste for scientific knowledge and pursuits.\u201d Two women were among the researchers: Christian Ramsay (Countess Dalhousie), who contributed a \u201cCatalogue of Canadian Plants collected in 1827,\u201d and Harriet Sheppard (\u201cMrs. Sheppard\u201d), who wrote about shells and Canadian songbirds in Quebec and had a keen interest in plants.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
This talk celebrates women who pursued knowledge of nature, especially knowledge about plants, in 19th<\/sup>-century Canada. It features Lady Dalhousie and Anne Mary Perceval in Quebec, Catharine Parr Traill and Alice Hollingworth in Ontario, and Mary Brenton in Newfoundland. Who were they? How did they come to know about plants? What were their contributions? What did their work mean to them? How do we find them? And where do we find material by them and about them?<\/p>\nThis talk also celebrates researchers in\u00a0Flora\u2019s Fieldworkers<\/em>\u00a0whose curiosity led them to letters and biography, artwork and craftwork, into archives, herbaria, and institutional records, and also into scrapbooks, logbooks, textbooks, and teaching tools to seek answers to those questions about women and knowledge.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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Presenter Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Ann Shteir is a Professor Emerita in the School of Gender, Sexuality, and Women\u2019s Studies at York University.<\/b> She received an Honorary Law degree from York University in 2016 for her work in developing York\u2019s pioneering graduate program in Gender, Feminist, and Women\u2019s Studies.<\/p>\n
Shteir is also the author of\u00a0Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science: Flora\u2019s Daughters and Botany in England, 1760 to 1860<\/em> (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), which was awarded the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize for Women’s History. She turned her attention next to women and botany in Canada. She collaborated with botanist Jacques Cayouette on an article published in Scientia Canadensis<\/em>\u00a0(2019) about four women who collected plants in early 19th<\/sup>-century Quebec and Newfoundland. She also organized a workshop at York University that brought together botanists, historians of science, art historians, literary scholars, garden historians, and others who, like her, wanted to know more about women, plants, and botanical work in Canada across the 1800s. The edited book Flora\u2019s Fieldworkers: Women and Botany in Nineteenth-Century Canada<\/em> (McGill-Queen\u2019s University Press, 2022) was a happy result.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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This event will be a hybrid.<\/p>\n
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Thursday, January 9, 7 p.m.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Celebrating Historical Research and Historical Researchers: Women and Botany in 19th<\/sup>-Century Canada. An Illustrated Talk<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Papers in the\u00a0Transactions of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec<\/em>\u00a0from the 1820s and 1830s are historical documents by individuals in early 19th<\/sup>-century Canada who were searching for knowledge about nature in a \u201cnew land\u201d and who also wanted to \u201cexcite in the rising generation a taste for scientific knowledge and pursuits.\u201d Two women were among the researchers: Christian Ramsay (Countess Dalhousie), who contributed a \u201cCatalogue of Canadian Plants collected in 1827,\u201d and Harriet Sheppard (\u201cMrs. Sheppard\u201d), who wrote about shells and Canadian songbirds in Quebec and had a keen interest in plants.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This talk celebrates women who pursued knowledge of nature, especially knowledge about plants, in 19th<\/sup>-century Canada. It features Lady Dalhousie and Anne Mary Perceval in Quebec, Catharine Parr Traill and Alice Hollingworth in Ontario, and Mary Brenton in Newfoundland. Who were they? How did they come to know about plants? What were their contributions? What did their work mean to them? How do we find them? And where do we find material by them and about them?<\/p>\n This talk also celebrates researchers in\u00a0Flora\u2019s Fieldworkers<\/em>\u00a0whose curiosity led them to letters and biography, artwork and craftwork, into archives, herbaria, and institutional records, and also into scrapbooks, logbooks, textbooks, and teaching tools to seek answers to those questions about women and knowledge.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Presenter Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ann Shteir is a Professor Emerita in the School of Gender, Sexuality, and Women\u2019s Studies at York University.<\/b> She received an Honorary Law degree from York University in 2016 for her work in developing York\u2019s pioneering graduate program in Gender, Feminist, and Women\u2019s Studies.<\/p>\n Shteir is also the author of\u00a0Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science: Flora\u2019s Daughters and Botany in England, 1760 to 1860<\/em> (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), which was awarded the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize for Women’s History. She turned her attention next to women and botany in Canada. She collaborated with botanist Jacques Cayouette on an article published in Scientia Canadensis<\/em>\u00a0(2019) about four women who collected plants in early 19th<\/sup>-century Quebec and Newfoundland. She also organized a workshop at York University that brought together botanists, historians of science, art historians, literary scholars, garden historians, and others who, like her, wanted to know more about women, plants, and botanical work in Canada across the 1800s. The edited book Flora\u2019s Fieldworkers: Women and Botany in Nineteenth-Century Canada<\/em> (McGill-Queen\u2019s University Press, 2022) was a happy result.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n This event will be a hybrid.<\/p>\n This event is part of a talk series celebrating the 200th anniversary of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Library Lectures: 📅 Date: January 9, 2025 ⏰ Time: 19:00 – 20:30 📍 Location: Morrin Centre Library (hybrid option via Zoom) 🎨 Event Category: Cultural Event Celebrate the fascinating contributions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-688179","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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