Dr. Elizabeth L. Jewett

Selected Publications

Under Contract, manuscript, From Rough to Green: Cultivating Golf Course Landscapes in Canada, 1870-1945. McGill-Queen’s University Press.

“Maple Syrup,” in Symbols of Canada eds., Dawson, Gidney, and Wright. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2018, 107-117.

 “A Hole in One: Sport and Environment,” The International Journal of the History of Sport, 34:5-6, 2017, 357-361. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09523367.2017.1381597

 "What was Driving Golf: Mobility, Nature, and the Making of Canadian Leisure Landscapes, 1870-1930," Chapter in J.W. Young, C. Coates and B. Bradley, eds., Moving Natures: Mobility and the Environment in Canadian History, Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2016, 251-273.

“Collaborative Landscapes” in The Otter, NiCHE, Published July 24, 2017.

“Golf at Jasper Park in the Canadian Rockies—Advertising the Golf Course Landscape.” The Champlain Society. Published August 2016.

Selected Conference Papers

2019    “Groves of Plenty: Maple Trees and Meaning in Canadian Society, 1900-1945,” America Society of Environmental History, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA, April 11th

 2018    “Regulating Sweetness: Definitions of Purity and Quality in Defining Canadian Maple Syrup,”    Canadian Historical Association, University of Regina, Regina, Canada, May 30th   

 2016    “Atlantic Canadian Golfscapes: Constructing ‘Natural’ Playing Fields,” Atlantic Canada Studies Conference, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada, May 6th  

 2014    “Playing a-Round with Gender: Golfing Landscapes and Emerging Masculinities, 1910-1930,”    Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Toronto, Canada, May 22-25th

 2012    “The Natural Course: Environment and Sport in the Design of Canadian Golfscapes, 1910-1945,” Canadian Historical Association, London, Ontario, Canada, May 30th

Selected Invited Lectures and Workshop Presentations

 2018    “The Making of Maple Syrup: Exploring the Settler History of a Canadian Commodity,” Rural History Roundtable, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, November 29th

            “Building a Natural Game: Golf Courses and Cultures Cross the Atlantic, 1870-1945,” Cascade  Golf and Country Club, Métis-sur-Mer, Quebec, Canada, July 22nd 

 2017    "Canada's Maple Syrup: Tapping the History of a Commodity and Cuisine" Annual Stanley  Lecture, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada, January 30th

 2016    “Sports and Society: Home Team Canada Versus Away Team Greece,” Academic Conversation (with Jonathan Vickers), Centre for Canadian Studies, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada, January 28th

 2014    “Cultivating the Course: Golf Course Knowledge and Technology in Canada, 1873-1945,” Rural History Roundtable, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, October 3rd

 2011    Presentation at Canadian History and Environment Summer School Workshop Network in Canadian History and Environment, St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada, May 27-29th