Dr. L. Ambrose
Full Professor
Ph.D. (Waterloo)

Phone: 675-1151 ext 4204
e-mail: LAmbrose@laurentian.ca

Courses Taught:
HIST-3386EL-01 – History of the Canadian Family
HIST-2926EL-01 – Historical Methods
HIST-4215EL-01 – Gender Relations in Modern Canada
HIST-5606EL-01 – Gender and Social History

Research Interests:
Rural women’s organization

Books

• co-author of Laurentian University: A History (Montreal: MQUP, 2010).
• Women's Institutes in Canada: The First One Hundred Years, 1897-1997. Ottawa: Federated Women's Institutes of Canada, 2000. 
• For Home and Country: The Centennial History of the Women's Institutes in Ontario. Boston Mills Press, 1996. (Winner of the Ontario Historical Society's Alison Prentice Award for Women's History, 1999)

Chapters in Books

• “Zelma and Beulah Argue: Sisters in the Canadian Pentecostal Movement,” in Winds from the North: Canadian Contributions to the Pentecostal Movement, Michael Wilkinson and Peter Althouse, eds. (Leiden & Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2010), 99-127.
• “Women at Laurentian: ‘In a Man’s World,’ The Early Years, 1960-1972,” in Laurentian University: A History, Matt Bray, ed. (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010): 250-259.
• “‘Decidely No Cause for Rejoicing’: Identifying Women’s Situation, 1972-1985,” in Laurentian University: A History, Matt Bray, ed. (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010): 260-271.
• “Policies and Practices for Equity and Equality, 1985 to the Present,” in Laurentian University: A History, Matt Bray, ed. (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010): 272-281.
• “Faculty at Laurentian: Early Years, 1960-1972” in Laurentian University: A History, Matt Bray, ed.,  (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010): 291-303
• “Consolidation, Certification, 1972-1985,” in Laurentian University: A History, Matt Bray, ed.,  (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010): 2303-311.
• “From the Strikes and Social Contract to Growth and Expansion, 1985 to the Present,” in Laurentian University: A History, Matt Bray, ed.,  (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010): 312-322.
• “Cartoons and Commissions:  Advice to Postwar Rural Youth in Ontario.” Ontario History XCIII, 1 (Spring 2001): 57-79. Reprinted in Cynthia R. Comacchio and Elizabeth Jane Errington, People, Places, and Times: Readings in Canadian Social History Volume 2: Post-Confederation. Toronto: Thomas Nelson, 2006, 278-93.
• “Canadian Youth Commission,” in The Oxford Companion to Canadian History. Gerald Hallowell, ed. Oxford & Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2004, p. 111.
• “4-H,” in The Oxford Companion to Canadian History. Gerald Hallowell, ed. Oxford & Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2004, p. 235.
• “Women’s Institutes,” in The Oxford Companion to Canadian History. Gerald Hallowell, ed. Oxford & Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2004, p. 672.
• “Introduction” in Leanna Brodie, For Home and Country [a play about the Women’s Institutes]. (Vancouver: Talon Books, 2004): vii-xi.
• "Rural Women's Organizations in the Interwar Years: the Case of the Ontario Women's Institutes" in Canada, Confederation to Present: An Interactive History. Bob Hesketh and Chris Hackett, eds. Edmonton: Chinook Multimedia Inc., 2001 [CD Rom]
• "Ontario Women's Institutes and the Work of Local History," in Alison Prentice and Beverly Boutilier, eds. Creating Memory: English Canadian Women and the Work of History. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1997, pp. 75-98.
• "The Women's Institutes of Northern Ontario, 1905-1930: Immitators or Innovators?" in Margaret Kechnie and Marge Reitsma-Street (eds). Changing Lives: Women in Northern Ontario. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1996, pp. 263-274.
• "Collecting Youth Opinion: The Research of the Canadian Youth Commission" in Gordon Dodds, Alvin Esau, and Russell Smandych (eds). Dimensions of Childhood: Essays on the History of Children and Youth in Canada. Winnipeg: The Legal Research Institute University of Manitoba, 1991, pp. 63-84.

Articles in Refereed Journals

• “Establishing a Gendered Authority through Pentecostal Publications: The Writings of Zelma Argue, 1920-1969,” in Historical Papers: Journal of the Canadian Society of Church History, (2009):69-80.
• “Zelma and Beulah Argue: Sisters in the Canadian Pentecostal Movement,” in Historical Papers: Journal of the Canadian Society of Church History, (2008): 81-102.
• “A New Woman in Print and Practice: The Canadian Literary Career of Madge Robertson Watt, 1890-1907,” with Kristin Hall. History of Intellectual Culture; 7, 1 (2007).
• “Our Last Frontier: Race, Region, and Imperialism in a Northern Canadian Rural Women’s Organization.” Canadian Historical Review  86,2 (June 2005): 257-84.
• “Quarantine in Question: The 1913 Investigation at William Head, B.C.” Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin canadien d’histoire de la médicine 22, 1 (2005): 139-54.
• “Better and Happier Men and Women: The Agricultural Instruction Act, 1913-1924.” Historical Studies in Education/Revue d’histoire de l’éducation 16, 2 (2004):257-85.  (Winner of the Ontario Historical Society’s Ridell Award for the best article in Ontario History published in 2004)
• “Forever Lunching: Food, Power and Politics in Ontario Women’s Organizations.” Popular Culture Review 13, 1 (January 2002): 7-17.
• “Cartoons and Commissions:  Advice to Postwar Rural Youth in Ontario.” Ontario History XCIII, 1 (Spring 2001): 57-79.
• Ambrose, L., Kechnie, M., “Social Control or Social Feminism?  Two Views of the Ontario Women's Institutes.” Agricultural History 73, 2 (Spring 1999): 222-237.
• “`What Are the Good of Those Meetings Anyway?': Explaining the Early Popularity of the Ontario Women's Institutes.” Ontario History LXXXVII, 1 (Spring 1995):1-19.
• “`Working Day and Night Helping Dick': Women in Post-War Planning on the Canadian Youth Commission, 1942-48.” Historical Studies in Education/Revue d'histoire de l'éducation 3, 1 (Spring 1991): 75-92.

Recent Book Reviews

• [Review of] Canadian Pentecostalism: Transition and Transformation by Michael Wilkinson, (ed.), Canadian Journal of Pentecostal Charismatic Christianity, Volume 1, 1 (forthcoming).
• [Review of] Deliverance and Submission: Evangelical Women and the Negotiation of Patriarch in South Korea by Kelly H. Chong, H-Pentecostalism, H-Net Reviews. September, 2009.
• [Review of] Women Teaching Women Learning: Historical Perspectives by Elizabeth M. Smyth and Paula Bourne (eds.) History of Education Volume 38, 2 (March 2009): 315-17.
• [Review of] The Dominion of Youth: Adolescence and the Making of Modern Canada, 1920 to 1950 by Cynthia Comacchio,  Labour/Le Travail. Volume 60 (Fall 2007): 262-64.
  

Dr. L. Ambrose
Full Professor
Ph.D. (Waterloo)

Phone: 675-1151 ext 4204
e-mail: LAmbrose@laurentian.ca

Courses Taught:
HIST-3386EL-01 – History of the Canadian Family
HIST-2926EL-01 – Historical Methods
HIST-4215EL-01 – Gender Relations in Modern Canada
HIST-5606EL-01 – Gender and Social History

Research Interests:
Rural women’s organization

Books

• co-author of Laurentian University: A History (Montreal: MQUP, 2010).
• Women's Institutes in Canada: The First One Hundred Years, 1897-1997. Ottawa: Federated Women's Institutes of Canada, 2000. 
• For Home and Country: The Centennial History of the Women's Institutes in Ontario. Boston Mills Press, 1996. (Winner of the Ontario Historical Society's Alison Prentice Award for Women's History, 1999)

Chapters in Books

• “Zelma and Beulah Argue: Sisters in the Canadian Pentecostal Movement,” in Winds from the North: Canadian Contributions to the Pentecostal Movement, Michael Wilkinson and Peter Althouse, eds. (Leiden & Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2010), 99-127.
• “Women at Laurentian: ‘In a Man’s World,’ The Early Years, 1960-1972,” in Laurentian University: A History, Matt Bray, ed. (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010): 250-259.
• “‘Decidely No Cause for Rejoicing’: Identifying Women’s Situation, 1972-1985,” in Laurentian University: A History, Matt Bray, ed. (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010): 260-271.
• “Policies and Practices for Equity and Equality, 1985 to the Present,” in Laurentian University: A History, Matt Bray, ed. (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010): 272-281.
• “Faculty at Laurentian: Early Years, 1960-1972” in Laurentian University: A History, Matt Bray, ed.,  (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010): 291-303
• “Consolidation, Certification, 1972-1985,” in Laurentian University: A History, Matt Bray, ed.,  (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010): 2303-311.
• “From the Strikes and Social Contract to Growth and Expansion, 1985 to the Present,” in Laurentian University: A History, Matt Bray, ed.,  (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010): 312-322.
• “Cartoons and Commissions:  Advice to Postwar Rural Youth in Ontario.” Ontario History XCIII, 1 (Spring 2001): 57-79. Reprinted in Cynthia R. Comacchio and Elizabeth Jane Errington, People, Places, and Times: Readings in Canadian Social History Volume 2: Post-Confederation. Toronto: Thomas Nelson, 2006, 278-93.
• “Canadian Youth Commission,” in The Oxford Companion to Canadian History. Gerald Hallowell, ed. Oxford & Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2004, p. 111.
• “4-H,” in The Oxford Companion to Canadian History. Gerald Hallowell, ed. Oxford & Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2004, p. 235.
• “Women’s Institutes,” in The Oxford Companion to Canadian History. Gerald Hallowell, ed. Oxford & Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2004, p. 672.
• “Introduction” in Leanna Brodie, For Home and Country [a play about the Women’s Institutes]. (Vancouver: Talon Books, 2004): vii-xi.
• "Rural Women's Organizations in the Interwar Years: the Case of the Ontario Women's Institutes" in Canada, Confederation to Present: An Interactive History. Bob Hesketh and Chris Hackett, eds. Edmonton: Chinook Multimedia Inc., 2001 [CD Rom]
• "Ontario Women's Institutes and the Work of Local History," in Alison Prentice and Beverly Boutilier, eds. Creating Memory: English Canadian Women and the Work of History. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1997, pp. 75-98.
• "The Women's Institutes of Northern Ontario, 1905-1930: Immitators or Innovators?" in Margaret Kechnie and Marge Reitsma-Street (eds). Changing Lives: Women in Northern Ontario. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1996, pp. 263-274.
• "Collecting Youth Opinion: The Research of the Canadian Youth Commission" in Gordon Dodds, Alvin Esau, and Russell Smandych (eds). Dimensions of Childhood: Essays on the History of Children and Youth in Canada. Winnipeg: The Legal Research Institute University of Manitoba, 1991, pp. 63-84.

Articles in Refereed Journals

• “Establishing a Gendered Authority through Pentecostal Publications: The Writings of Zelma Argue, 1920-1969,” in Historical Papers: Journal of the Canadian Society of Church History, (2009):69-80.
• “Zelma and Beulah Argue: Sisters in the Canadian Pentecostal Movement,” in Historical Papers: Journal of the Canadian Society of Church History, (2008): 81-102.
• “A New Woman in Print and Practice: The Canadian Literary Career of Madge Robertson Watt, 1890-1907,” with Kristin Hall. History of Intellectual Culture; 7, 1 (2007).
• “Our Last Frontier: Race, Region, and Imperialism in a Northern Canadian Rural Women’s Organization.” Canadian Historical Review  86,2 (June 2005): 257-84.
• “Quarantine in Question: The 1913 Investigation at William Head, B.C.” Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin canadien d’histoire de la médicine 22, 1 (2005): 139-54.
• “Better and Happier Men and Women: The Agricultural Instruction Act, 1913-1924.” Historical Studies in Education/Revue d’histoire de l’éducation 16, 2 (2004):257-85.  (Winner of the Ontario Historical Society’s Ridell Award for the best article in Ontario History published in 2004)
• “Forever Lunching: Food, Power and Politics in Ontario Women’s Organizations.” Popular Culture Review 13, 1 (January 2002): 7-17.
• “Cartoons and Commissions:  Advice to Postwar Rural Youth in Ontario.” Ontario History XCIII, 1 (Spring 2001): 57-79.
• Ambrose, L., Kechnie, M., “Social Control or Social Feminism?  Two Views of the Ontario Women's Institutes.” Agricultural History 73, 2 (Spring 1999): 222-237.
• “`What Are the Good of Those Meetings Anyway?': Explaining the Early Popularity of the Ontario Women's Institutes.” Ontario History LXXXVII, 1 (Spring 1995):1-19.
• “`Working Day and Night Helping Dick': Women in Post-War Planning on the Canadian Youth Commission, 1942-48.” Historical Studies in Education/Revue d'histoire de l'éducation 3, 1 (Spring 1991): 75-92.

Recent Book Reviews

• [Review of] Canadian Pentecostalism: Transition and Transformation by Michael Wilkinson, (ed.), Canadian Journal of Pentecostal Charismatic Christianity, Volume 1, 1 (forthcoming).
• [Review of] Deliverance and Submission: Evangelical Women and the Negotiation of Patriarch in South Korea by Kelly H. Chong, H-Pentecostalism, H-Net Reviews. September, 2009.
• [Review of] Women Teaching Women Learning: Historical Perspectives by Elizabeth M. Smyth and Paula Bourne (eds.) History of Education Volume 38, 2 (March 2009): 315-17.
• [Review of] The Dominion of Youth: Adolescence and the Making of Modern Canada, 1920 to 1950 by Cynthia Comacchio,  Labour/Le Travail. Volume 60 (Fall 2007): 262-64.