Mark Sholdice

Education

PhD student, History
University of Guelph, 2009-present

  • supervisor: Dr. Alan Gordon
  • comprehensive fields: Canada (major), Modern American History since 1877 (minor), Latin America (minor)

MA, History
University of Guelph, 2007-2009

  • supervisor: Dr. Alan Gordon
  • major research paper: “‘Patronage, Like Hamlet’s Ghost, Will Not Drown!’: The United Farmers of Ontario-Independent Labor Party Provincial Government and Political Patronage, 1919-1923″

BA (Hons), History and Economics
Queen’s University, 2003-2007

Current Research

My current research is focused on the popular movements for the public ownership of the means of distribution and generation of hydroelectricity in the Great Lakes region, especially New York State and Ontario from 1890 to 1940. These movements led to the creation of Ontario Hydro (1906) and the New York Power Authority (1931). Another geographic area of interest is Quebec, where hydroelectric politics carried strong nationalist overtones.

Conference Publications

  • Keewatin Country Graduate Student History Conference; Universities of Manitoba,
    Saskatchewan, and Winnipeg
    Riding Mountain National Park, 1 May 2010
    “The Social Gospel as the Religion of the. Agrarian Revolt in Ontario?”
  • Tri-University Program in History Conference; Guelph, Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier
    Universities
    Minorities, Rights and the State, 27 February 2010
    “‘Patronage, like Hamlet’s ghost will not drown!’: The United Farmers of Ontario-Independent Labour Party Provincial Government and Political Patronage, 1919-1923.”

Committee Involvement