OPENING SPEAKER: SHEILA WHITE, Musical Director Topic: “My Mother’s Letters” Toronto-born Sheila White received an environmental Urban Hero Award in 2020, a federal Canada 150 medal in 2017 recognizing her voluntarism, and in 2014 was the African Canadian Achievement Award winner in the Politics category for her roles as a candidate and former political adviser,...

This will be a in-person event that is free to view.  The lecture will be broadcast live via ZOOM for those who cannot attend in-person and recorded and posted to the Museum's YouTube at a later date. CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE WEBINAR Encompassing the traditional territories of eleven First Nations, spanning many more small communities of Indigenous Anishinaabe,...

Toronto was a manufacturing centre for over a century beginning in the 1850s, and the city's industries generated great wealth. Architectural historian and NTHS member Marta O'Brien will illustrate how companies used striking architecture to project prosperity and importance, which has enabled the innovative reuse of former factories as commercial premises and residences. REGISTER NOW...

The revitalization of sections of Toronto’s waterfront is underway, which will prevent flooding within the Don Valley and create new greenspaces in the Port Lands. During excavation of the new Don River channel, a large deposit of twentieth century "garbage" was uncovered, including some surprising objects. Join Scott Eckford, Archeologist at the Toronto and Region...

Conférence de la Société d’histoire de Toronto Le jeudi 27 janvier 2022 à 19 h – EN LIGNE   ARMOIRIES, EMBLÈMES, BLASONS… L’HÉRALDIQUE AU SERVICE DE L’HISTOIRE ET DU PATRIMOINE FAMILIAL   Conférencier : Samy Khalid, Héraut d’armes du Canada et directeur de l’Autorité héraldique du Canada   Les armoiries, drapeaux, insignes sont des emblèmes...