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Swansea Historical Society – May 1 Meeting BRICK by BRICK: Swansea Public School, 1890-2020
May 1, 2024 @ 7:30 pm
We hope you can join us for the next monthly meeting of the Swansea Historical Society, scheduled for 7:30 pm, Wednesday, May 1, 2024. The meeting will be held in the Rousseau Room of the Swansea Town Hall.
In our final meeting before we break for the summer, the Swansea Historical Society welcomes speaker Chris Higgins. In seventeen years as a teacher at Swansea Public School, Chris curated the school archives as a hobby. Upon his retirement in 2020, he decided to leave a record behind. Adding files from the City of Toronto Archives, Toronto Star, and Globe and Mail, as well as input from the community and rare documents, Chris’s book, BRICK by BRICK: Swansea Public School, 1890-2020, was the result and it forms the topic of our May 1 meeting.
Brick by Brick adds important chapters to the story of Toronto. Students of Swansea Public School were residents of a suburban village before the Village of Swansea was absorbed by Canada’s largest urban centre in 1967. The school had been built in a prime spot in 1890, where it remains a perfect place to learn and play. Over time, the school has faced its share of challenges, including wars, and pandemics, and 130-odd years of growth and change.
In addition to Brick by Brick, Chris has also published Riverstoryz: Conversations on the Humber and he is currently working on a third book, one that marries his love of history and true crime, entitled Hanging on Every Word: Toronto in the Age of Execution.
The meeting will be conducted in a hybrid format so that participants can attend in-person at the Swansea Town Hall or connect on-line using the Zoom tool. Here (and on the SHS website) is the link for joining the meeting on-line.
SHS – May Meeting
Time: May 1, 2024 07:15 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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Meeting ID: 892 1691 1799
Passcode: 333003
The Zoom connection will be open by 7:15 pm on May 1. If possible, we suggest that on-line participants start tuning in as soon as the link is open, so that we can be ready to kick off the meeting at 7:30 pm sharp.
All are welcome!!