Guelph historian and author Ed Butts has been honoured by the Ontario Historical Society.
Butts’ book Wartime: The First World War in a Canadian Town was awarded the 2018 J.J. Talman Award recognizing the best book in Ontario’s social, political, economic, or cultural history published in the last three years.
In Wartime: The First World War in a Canadian Town, Butts tells the story of how the people of Guelph) experienced the war, introducing readers to some of the men who enlisted and some who stayed behind, the anxious mothers, wives and children of soldiers overseas, and the many patriotic people who contributed to war-support work.
