Langford Conservancy is hoping an upcoming presentation by rural historian Catharine Wilson will help boost efforts to capture local history

“We’re working to create a museum with a rural archive of records from Langford and the surrounding area,” Ella Haley, the conservancy’s project manager, said. “We’re hoping that her talk will encourage people to share old photos, histories and artifacts from the community.”

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A professor emeritus at the University of Guelph, Wilson is the author of Being Neighbours, which focuses on cooperative work bees and reciprocity in rural Ontario through 1830 to the 1960s. It is based on the diaries of more than 100 men and women.

“She will talk about how rural households helped each other and how rural neighbourhoods worked,” Haley said.

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