Speaker: Susan Goldenberg, NYHS Director The kidnapping in 1934 of John Sackville Labatt, president of the big internationally well-known Labatt’s beer company, of London, Ontario, set several firsts in Canadian history. Labatt was the first important Canadian to be kidnapped, the first to be kidnapped for a high ransom, equivalent to $3 million today. It...
Presented by Lennox and Addington County Museum and Archives A collection of ceramic tableware on view in Toronto’s Gardiner Museum depicts idealized scenes of nineteenth-century Canadian life. Manufactured in England, these objects and others like them participated in the colonial project by imagining and asserting both national and colonial identities. In this virtual program, Sequoia...
Presented by Linda Zhang, Assistant Professor at Ryerson’s School of Interior Design (RSID) at FCAD, along with a class of fourth-year RSID students, this immersive and interactive project seeks to identify Chinatown’s future heritage(s) through the affects produced by interior architecture, lived experience, collective storytelling, atmosphere, and memory. Through a conceptual digital exhibition, we seek...
Presented by Lennox and Addington County Museum and Archives Between 1863 and 1939 as many as 118,000 children came to Canada under a British program of child migration. These “Home Children” journeyed to Canada from the UK in search of a better life. Following the advice and help of Victorian social reformers, these little migrants...
In partnership with the Hastings County Historical Society, the Belleville Public Library will be hosting an informative talk via Zoom on Wednesday, May 26 at 3 pm. Evan Morton, the curator of the Tweed & Area Heritage Centre, will speak about the profound effects of the smallpox outbreak that happened in the Hungerford area in...
