Ruth Compton Brouwer is a professor emerita in the Department of History at King's University College, Western University.
""Two exemplary contributions to Canadian social history stand out in Ruth Compton Brouwer’s All Things in Common. One is her illustration of how several research areas, such as family, religion, migration, land occupation, and rural life are connected to the utopian form of settlement, a type largely absent from Canadian historical research. Brouwer’s second contribution is to show how a utopian case can be explored sensitively yet dispassionately by a professional historian who is also a descendant of the family at the centre of the story."" -- Beth Moore Milroy, Toronto Metropolitan University * <em>Histoire sociale / Social History</em> *