Margaret Derry
Margaret Derry is a historian with a PhD. From the University of Toronto, an established artist, and a successful breeder of purebred cattle. All of these activities are woven into her thrust as an author of books and articles on rural history and the development of ideas and initiatives for improvement of animals, from both a historical and practical point of view. She is concerned with the cultural and technological themes of purebred animal breeding, evident over time. She has also spent her summers from childhood near Killarney, a village on northern Georgian Bay. This has lead to a lifelong love, reflected in her books on this subject.
An adjunct professor at the History Department of the University of Guelph, and a former Associated Scholar of the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto, Margaret supervises graduate students, publishes pertinent scholarly work and more popular history, and gives guest lectures in her field of expertise.
As owner of Poplar Lane shorthorns, she is active in Shorthorn activities, including the breeding and showing of Shorthorns.