Jane Errington, Ph.D. Professor Dean of Arts

Department of History

After teaching History, English and World Religions in High School in north western Ontario, Dr. Errington returned to school and completed both her MA and Ph.D. at Queen's University. Her graduate studies focused on the history of colonial societies in North America, and particularly on the intellectual, political and social development of Upper Canada. Dr. Errington teaches a wide range of courses - both at RMC and at Queen's University (where she is also a member of the department).

Jane Errington poursuit présentement des recherches sur la vie des premiers habitants du Haut-Canada. Quatre de ses ouvrages sur se sujet ont remporté des prix. Elle a également écrit de nombreux articles traitant du rôle des femmes dans la société coloniale en tant que travailleuses émigrantes et dans leurs rapports avec la loi, dont Wives and Mothers, School Mistresses and Scullery Maids et Emigrant Worlds and Transatlantic Communities. Elle vient d’entamer un nouveau projet s’intitulant Imperial Masculinity and the Making of RMC. Elle continue à explorer l’histoire sociale et culturelle dans la colonie pendant la première moitié du dix-neuvième siècle. Errington a gagné les prix Research Excellence Prize au CMR, the Colonel The Honourable John Matheson Award for Leadership au CMR et le Cowan Prize for Research Excellence.

University Degrees:

• Ph.D (Queen’s University)
• M.A. (Queen’s University)
• B.A. (Hons) (Trent University)
• B.Ed., (University of Toronto)

Research Interests:

• Social and gender history, colonial North America
• Gender and the military
• Cultural history

Courses Taught:

• HIE524 - Women, War and Society (RMC)
• HIST843 - Comparative Colonial North American Societies (Queen’s)

Main Publications:

• Emigrant Worlds and Transatlantic Communities: Migration to Upper Canada in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century: (Kingston & Montreal, Mc-Gill Queen’s University Press, 2007).
• Women and Work in Upper Canada, (Ottawa: Canadian Historical Association, 2007)
• Wives and Mothers, School Mistresses and Scullery Maids: Working Women in Upper Canada, Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995
• The Lion, The Eagle and Upper Canada, Kingston: McGill‑Queen's University Press, l987; reprint, 1995.
• Kingston: Historic Past, Progressive Future, Northridge, CA: Windsor Publications, 1988.
• Errington and Commacchio, Cynthia, eds.,People, Places and Times: Readings in Canadian Social History. Vol I (Toronto: Thomson, Nelson, 2006)
• Commachio and Errington, eds. People, Places and Times: Readings in Canadian Social History. Vol II (Toronto: Thomson, Nelson, 2005)