This will be an in-person event that is free to view. The lecture will be broadcast live via ZOOM for those who cannot attend in person and it will be recorded then posted to the Museum's YouTube at a later date. Description: 135 years before Fort William was built, the Hudson’s Bay Company was sending fur...
A true crime story with a North Toronto connection presented by award-winning author Nate Hendley.
Guest speakers: Paul Litt & Christine Jackson, Authors, 'Phyllis Turner Ross: Career Woman and Single Mother', Bytown Pamphlet Series #120 The story of John Napier Turner, Canada's 17th Prime Minister, is well known. Less known is the story of his remarkable mother, Phyllis Gregory Turner Ross, a single mother who came to Ottawa in the...
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—while I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, as of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. “’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—only this and nothing more...
A new temporary exhibit, "The Secret Postcard Society" from the Women's Art Association of Canada will be installed and unveiled at Toronto's First Post Office on October 26th! As a means of coping with the COVID-19 pandemic and the crisis of isolation and uncertainty, a group of very talented Artists from the Women’s Art Association of Canada...
