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The Rural Co-operator started publishing in 1936, first as an organ of the United Farmers of Ontario, and then later by Ontario Federation of Agriculture. It was a direct descendant of the earlier papers of the farm movement, beginning with the Canada Farmers’ Sun, the Weekly Sun and the Farmers’ Sun. In 1944, editor Leonard Harman brought a proposal to the Federation suggesting that the Rural Co-operator should be operated as a separate department with its own staff. Subsequently, Andrew Hebb of Newmarket was hired to be the new Editor and Manager of the paper. The Rural Co-operator was re-branded as "Farm and Country" in 1966.

Born in Toronto, 27 June 1923, Richard Irwin Ruggles graduated from the University of Toronto, with a B.A. (Hons.) in Geography in the spring of 1945. Two years later he obtained his M.A. (Geography) from the University of Syracuse; and in 1958 he received his Ph.D. (Geography) from the University of London (England). During these years too, he held several posts including that of consutant for the Canadaina Oxford Atlas.
Following receipt of his Doctorate, Richard Ruggles returned to Canada and Kingston, Ontario, where he took up a position as Assistant Professor at Queen's University. In 1962 he was made a full professor. He retired in the summer of 1988.
It was in 1958, at the time of his arrival, that the University was in the process of creating a separate Department of Geography (courses had been offered since 1954 through the Department of Political and Economic Science), and under the headship of Richard Ruggles in 1960 (a position he held until 1969), this goal was realized.
Over the years, Richard Ruggles received numerous awards and other honours, including the National Award of Merit from the Ammerican Associaiton for State and Local History (1970), the Isaak Walton Killam Fellowship (1981-1982), the Award for Services to the Profession of Geography from the Canadian Association of Geographers (1982), the Awared for Service to Geography in Ontario from the Canadain Association of Geographers - Ontario Division (1983), Fellow of the Royal Society of Geographers, and the Distinguished Alumnus Award, University of Toronto Association of Geography Alumni (2001); as well authoring several ground-breaking books, and many articles.
Richard Irwin Ruggles died 9 Janaury 2008, at his home in Duncan, British Columbia.

Orest Rudzik (b. 1936, Toronto) earned his Honours B.A. (University College) at the University of Toronto, his M.A. from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. He taught in the Department of English at University College from 1961 to 1986, during which time he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Humanities Center of the Johns Hopkins University from 1968 - 1969. He created a Canadian Literature Programme for Atkinson College at York University. After completing his LLB (with honours) at Osgoode Hall Law School, he received his Call to the Bar in March of 1975. In his legal career, he served as Senior Counsel to the Public Guardian and Trustee of the Province of Ontario. He was a speaker at many academic conferences and published both academic and legal papers.
Rudzik was active in the Ukrainian community becoming the President of the Ontario Ukrainian-Canadian Committee and served as a member of the Ontario Multicultural Committee. Then he served as First National Vice President of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC) and in a variety of positions with the UCC and the Ukrainian Canadian Professional and Business Federation thereafter. He spent from 1993 - 1994 in Kyiv, as Director of Law Training through the auspices of the Ukrainian Legal Foundation. Rudzik was also engaged in three of the quasi-war criminal cases as launched by the Department of Justice (Canada) against naturalized Ukrainian post-war citizens, against who allegations of fraud and consequent sanctions of deportation were threatened.
Later, Rudzik continued his law practice but mainly dealt with estates and estates litigation. He continued research into a variety of areas of intellectual history, including that of the assassination of Simeon Petliura and the judicial proceedings consequent upon his murder. He ended a 50 year association with the University when he became a member of the Senior Faculty at the University of Toronto, a member of its Executive Committee and was given the title of Senator. Orest Rudzik passed away in Oakville, December 8, 2016.