Join us VIRTUALLY on December 3rd for our annual AGM! About this Event The Town of York Historical Society will hold its Annual General Meeting on Thursday, December 3rd online via ZOOM. Following the business meeting, there will be a special talk by guest speaker Adam Bunch on his new (and much anticipated) book The...

Historic cook Sherry Murphy demonstrates Victorian Christmas plum pudding & mincemeat tarts, with Q&A to follow. Recipe booklet included. About this Event Culinary Historians of Canada's 5th annual Baking for the Victorian Christmas Table is going digital this year! This Christmas baking workshop features CHC’s star baker and historic cook, Sherry Murphy. She’ll be demonstrating...

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...