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On we are letting our Scottish flag fly 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 and sharing the McLaughlin Library - University of Guelph Scottish Studies Collection - the largest in the world outside the UK!

On 3 April, Archival & Special Collections - University of Guelph Library will launch the Jacobite Exhibition. More details for the exhibit coming soon!

Learn more about the Scottish Studies Collection:
https://www.lib.uoguelph.ca/archives/our-collections/scottish-studies

Lucy Maud Montgomery was born on this day in 1874. Here's a passage from her journals commemorating her 60th birthday in 1934, "what a day!"

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Did you know McLaughlin Library - University of Guelph is home to an extensive Jacobite Collection?

Join us next week on 30 November as Scottish Studies students present the Fall Colloquium: Truth or Treason? Sources for the Study of Jacobites in Scotland.

Undergraduate and graduate students will share their research on the extraordinary Jacobite sources held in the Scottish Studies Collection, as they prepare to curate a forthcoming exhibit, to be launched in 2023 in collaboration with Archival & Special Collections - University of Guelph Library.

Details and registration ⬇
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/truth-or-treason-sources-for-the-study-of-jacobites-in-scotland-tickets-465929416427

Just before the pandemic hit, Lucy Maud Montgomery’s beloved Gog and Magog were returned to us from the Canadian Conservation Institute. Yesterday marked the first time these famous Staffordshire dogs were taken for a walk since returning home, and we think they look exceptional!

Reflecting upon the University of Guelph's history this Remembrance Day.

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Reflecting upon the University of Guelph's history this Remembrance Day.

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Today, and always, we will remember them.

This Remembrance Day, we look back to the Ontario Agricultural College Class of 1924, seen here, digging out the foundation for War Memorial Hall in 1920 to honour those from campus who gave the ultimate sacrifice in World War I.



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Wishing everyone a happy and healthy Thanksgiving weekend! To celebrate the season, here's a photograph from our Campus Collection highlighting the changing of the leaves in front of Johnston Hall.

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The May long weekend is the unofficial start of summer around here. We'll be closed until Tuesday, taking a leaf from little Stuart Macdonald's book and spending some time relaxing outdoors.

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Lucy Maud Montgomery Society of Ontario

We're closed Friday but will be back for all your archival and special collection needs on Monday April 18 . Happy long weekend!
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Recipes with a side of LGBTQ+ activism - learn how The Gay Cookbook used humour to challenge stereotypes in the 60's in this article by Gillian from Archival & Special Collections - University of Guelph Library in The Ontarion (and find the book in our collections!)

‘The Gay Cookbook’ makes a meal of camp and serves it up with a side of LGBTQ+ activism Author Lou Rand Hogan garnishes internationally-inspired recipes with witty commentary in this fascinating look at mid-century q***r domesticity Gillian Manford | Archives Clerk “…in th…