Join us on December 17th for a festive evening as we learn about the Christmas traditions of days gone by! About this Event: Many of us who celebrate Christmas have traditions that we feel are steeped and time honoured. But most of them aren't as old as we might think. Hardly any of the Christmas...

Lecture 3: Doing the Right Thing: Disability, Autism and Special Education The third Session (January 12, 2021), is entitled: Doing the Right Thing: Disability, Autism and Special Education. Panelists include University of British Columbia Professor, Jason Ellis, author of A Class By Themselves: The Origins of Special Education in Toronto and Beyond; Natalie Spagnuolo from...

"Enemy in Sight!", Print by Peter Rindlisbacher. About this Event Join us on January 14th for an evening with Gurth Pretty, Director of the HMS Psyche Canadian Maritime Heritage Society. In this virtual presentation, travel back in time to 1812 to when a battle was raging in a war that would shape our history. Far...

Lecture 4: Does Liberal Education Matter in the 21st Century? The final session (January 19), turns to higher education, and asks “Does Liberal Education Matter in the 21st Century?” Lorna Marsden, former President of York University, is joined on the panel by Paul Gooch, past president of Victoria University in the University of Toronto and...

PHS Monthly Meetings and Speakers Program go Virtual In face of the challenges and continued risks of resuming on-site monthly meetings, we have decided instead to produce monthly virtual PHS Talks that may be viewed on the YouTube channel of Hutchison House Museum. The plan is to schedule them to be posted on the third...