For hundreds of years historians have glossed over how First Peoples and the earliest European explorers communicated with one another during their first meetings. How did they convey information back and forth? How effective was this process? This talk returns to seminal episodes of “first encounter” to closely examine how people in reality communicated and...

A panel discussion reflecting on the 2008-09 Tamil demonstrations, how they’ve impacted the community, and this year’s installation and exhibition. Join us for the Images of Resistance: An Archive of Action official launch event. This event will be a panel discussion reflecting on the 2008-2009 intergenerational demonstrations that mobilized Toronto’s Tamil community; a scale of...

Dr. David Maxwell, archaeologist & collector, discusses what he's learned about contemporary culture from the discarded cans of beers-past. About this Event What does our garbage say about us? As a young anthropologist and archaeologist, Dr. David Maxwell studied Mayan votive offerings and what they tell us about Mayan cultural and political history; but not...

Presented by Lennox and Addington County Museum and Archives If a picture says a thousand words, then a family photograph tells a thousand tales; and ones we want to pass on and keep for the future. Knowing the photographic processes used to create an image helps identify the era the picture was taken in, and...

Join Zoé Delguste-Cincotta, Curator of Toronto's First Post Office, for a virtual tour of of the Post Office in 1834 It is difficult for our 21st century selves to contemplate a time when handwriting was the only means of sending a thought any distance. When Toronto incorporated as a City in 1834, it was already...