About Laurel Sefton MacDowell Laurel Sefton MacDowell is in the Department of History, Erindale College, University of toronto. MacDowell is the current editor of Ontario History, the quarterly journal of the Ontario Historical Society; Books by Laurel Sefton MacDowell Patterns of the Past Interpreting Ontario's History edited by Roger Hall, William Westfall & Laurel Sefton MacDowell