Kingston Historical Society (Virtual): David Gordon, “Mayor Clifford Curtis: Queen’s Economist and Municipal Reformer”
onlinePlease contact kingstonhs@gmail.com if you want the link to the Zoom presentation.
Please contact kingstonhs@gmail.com if you want the link to the Zoom presentation.
Before he cast his lot with a group of like-minded Toronto artists, Alexander Young (A.Y.) Jackson was an artist with a growing international reputation, as well as a soldier and a war artist. In this lecture, award-winning author Douglas Hunter will give a captivating account of the many wars Jackson fought, on and off the...
Join us for a talk and panel discussion with award-winning placemaker and thought leader/city builder Jay Pitter. Date: November 16, 2022 at 7 p.m. (doors open at 6:30 p.m.) Location: Winter Garden Theatre, 189 Yonge Street, Toronto, Ontario What is placemaking? Placemaking is an inclusive, community-based approach to public space design, activation/programming and policy. The...
The mushrooming fix-up business is the largest component of Canada’s largest industry, construction. In Ontario, it pumps tens of billions of dollars annually into our GDP. And one in every eight Ontario buildings was constructed before World War II. But if it is so economically vital, Marc Denhez asks, why is it still so hard...
Speaker: Ward 1 councilor Stephen Dasko People from all over have discovered that Mississauga South is a great place to live. New residential developments are springing up all across Clarkson, Lakeview, Lorne Park and Port Credit. In many cases, historic homes, stores and parks are being removed to make room for new homes and condos,...