Port Hope & District Historical Society Giant Fundraiser Yard Sale
2022-07-08 08:00 - 15:00, 2022-07-09 08:00 - 15:00, 2022-07-10 08:00 - 15:00 (America/Toronto) | Dorothy’s House Museum, 3632 Ganaraska Rd., Port Hope, Ontario, L0A 1B0, Canada
All proceeds go to the support and upkeep of Dorothy’s House Museum

Thunder Bay Museum (In-Person and Virtual) Lecture - Is there a unique accent in Northern Ontario? Insights from the Ontario Dialects Project
2022-07-13 19:00 | Thunder Bay Museum, 425 Donald St E., Thunder Bay, Ontario, P7E 5V1, Canada
You are invited to join the Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society to experience a unique presentation from Professor Sali A. Tagliamonte on the history and culture of dialects in Northern Ontario.
The lecture will explore some of our area’s unique words and expressions, what they say about us and provide information on the Ontario Dialects Project.
Audience members will have the opportunity to share their own stories!
This will be an in-person and virtual event.

Free Museum Admission during the event
Refreshments will be available

Professor Sali A. Tagliamonte is a Canadian linguist, born and raised in Northern Ontario, now Canadian Research Chair in Language Variation and Change, Professor and Chair of the Linguistics Department at the University of Toronto.
The Ontario Dialects Project was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Killam Trust.
Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://us02web.zoom.us/s/84022936906?pwd=[REDACTED]
Webinar ID: 840 2293 6906
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Music at Wesleyville Heritage Village
2022-07-13 19:00 - 20:00 | Wesleyville Village, 2082 Lakeshore Rd., Port Hope, ON, L1A 3V7, Canada
Music Returns to Wesleyville Heritage Village
Four Wednesday concerts in the Wesleyville Schoolhouse
Our favourite music director, Randy Mills, has been inspired to offer small concerts in the schoolhouse on Wednesdays. All are welcome to attend these special concerts offered in the school because the Church is unavailable due to the 2021 fire damage.
Please park at the Church and walk through the village to the school which we’re sorry to say is not accessible for folks with limited walking abilities.
There’s seating for about 30 attendees in the one-room school, built in 1899. Queens Elizabeth I and II will be celebrated on July 6th while Queen Victoria looks down upon you from the rear of the classroom.

June 22, 4 to 4:30 p.m.: St. Mark’s Young Chimers, led by Choirmaster Randy Mills
June 29, 7 to 8 p.m.: Randy Mills and choristers
July 6, 7 to 8 p.m.: Mead Singers – music and readings from the reigns of Elizabeth I and II
July 13, 7 to 8 p.m.: Elizabeth & Timothy Wisnicki & Juliette Sinnott

Free admission. Donations in support of Church fire recovery welcomed.

Friends of the South Grey Museum Speaker Series 2022: Janie Cooper-Wilson, "How Do You Want Your Ancestors to be Remembered?"
2022-07-20 19:00 | online
The Friends of the South Grey Museum invite you to the Speakers Series 2022, developed and hosted by Barry Penhale. As someone with an interest in the Museum and its programs, you know how much we have all missed many activities during the COVID-19 pandemic, including our series of talks. We decided to welcome our supporters back to a virtual series for 2022, offered as webinars via Zoom with another eight programs, occurring as usual on the third Wednesday of each month, April to November, at 7:00 pm.
The Museum being no longer available as a host site, and with the continuing threat of COVID, going virtual was the obvious solution. Moving to a virtual delivery brings with it some additional costs, so we have made this a subscription series, but we’ve kept the usual at-the-door cost as a household fee of $10 per session. We are grateful to the Municipality of Grey Highlands for continuing their support for the presenters.

Janie Cooper-Wilson of Wasaga Beach was inducted as one of Canada’s 100 Accomplished Black Women in 2018. Her life-long passion for researching and documenting Black history is a crucial part of the collective history of Ontario. A director on the Ontario Historical Society Board, she serves as OHS field representative for Simcoe County and researcher/co-chair of the OHS Cemetery Preservation & Defence Committee. Did you know there are approximately 1,500 known inactive, unapproved, and unregistered burial grounds located across Ontario — all with little protection for their future?
Janie discusses her work over the last two years to investigate, research, and defend three Underground Railroad Burial Grounds in Haldimand County, south of Cayuga, Ontario. One is the resting place of a niece of Harriet Tubman. One is located on private land where many tombstones have been removed. Another has already been ploughed under. All three sites fall within the same official category yet all three pose uniquely different issues. She will share some little-known facts involved in the Cemetery Act and the complex challenges being encountered as she works to preserve the sites and the crucial archival information about the Black pioneers contained within them.

Many Sessions, Your Choice
Hoping you will join us for another exciting series, this time from the comfort of your home, no uncomfortable folding chairs, and no expenditure on gasoline!
Choose which parts of the series you prefer. Visit our web site for in-depth descriptions of The Sessions.
Full Series of all eight sessions monthly April to November
with one free session discount
for $70
OR
Half Series of four sessions monthly April to July
for $40
OR
Half Series of four sessions monthly August to November
for $40

Buy $70 Full Series (8 sessions) April to November
Buy $40 Half Series (4 sessions) April to July
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Toronto Railway Museum Online Lecture: Museum Spotting: A Virtual Tour of Canada’s Railway Museums
2022-07-21 20:00 - 21:30 | online
Join us! “Museum Spotting: A Virtual Tour of Canada’s Railway Museums” on July 21st at 8 pm EST.
The Toronto Railway Museum is one of dozens of railway museums in Canada. In our July session of our Railway Ties virtual lecture series, we will hear from a selection of other railway museums across the country. Join us as we visit railway museums in Quebec, Niagara Region, Saskatchewan and Alberta. Hear stories of the railways from all around Canada, and start planning your next cross-country railway museum trip!
Tickets for this event are free, although registration is required.
Attendees will get access to our exclusive Zoom meeting room, where they can engage directly with the presenter and museum historians in a post-lecture Q&A. The event will begin at 8pm Eastern Standard Time, and will end at 9:30pm EST.
PRESENTERS
Exporail
Niagara Railway Museum
Saskatchewan Railway Museum
Alberta Railway Museum
ABOUT THE TORONTO RAILWAY MUSEUM (TRM)
The Toronto Railway Museum (TRM) brings people together by telling stories of Toronto’s railway heritage. The Museum is located in the heart of downtown Toronto and is typically open year-round. TRM presents exhibits, tours, educational programs and publications that broaden the understanding and appreciation of Toronto’s rich railway history. TRM is committed to telling the stories of the railways, and welcoming conversations of its varied experiences through its lecture series, exhibits and integrated programming with a mission to learn from the past to make the future better.

Halton Black History Awareness Society Emancipation Flag-Raising
2022-07-22 12:00 - 13:00 | Burlington City Hall, 426 Brant St., Burlington, Ontario, L7R 3Z6, Canada
Your participation in this year’s ceremony recognizes everyone’s freedom as we are one. Yes, we’ve suffered similar inhumanities such as our Ukraine cousins are experiencing today. It’s time to acknowledge, appreciate, articulate, and activate that we do best when we work together with authenticity.
What this means is implementing equality legislation, educating our teachers to become educators, stopping racism, marginalization, stereotyping, and hate whenever and wherever it raises it’s divisive head. Our ancestors all fought for their respective ancestry and Our inhumanity.
The Halton Black History Awareness Society (HBHAS) is honoured to be hosting a 2022 Halton Freedom Festival, Emancipation Pan African Flag-Raising Ceremony celebrating the 1834 British Emancipation Act which freed all colonial slaves, initiated by Ontario’s First Lieutenant Governor, John Graves Simcoe through the Anti-Slavery Act of 1793. It is appreciated that multi-cultures helped transport many of the “freed” slaves to Canada both through the Underground Railroad and throughout the North American continent. The Pan African flag is representative of all blacks of African Ancestry.
The HBHAS is appreciative of being recognized as the first city in the world to acclaim August as Emancipation month. This acclamation took place at our 2018 Halton Freedom Celebration Festival and was acknowledged at a Dr. Julius Garvey presentation in tribute to his father on Marcus Garvey Day, at Toronto’s City Hall (2019). The City of Burlington further proclaimed, at the HBHAS flag-raising ceremony in 2021, recognizing August 31st the International Day for People of African Descent in alignment to the UN General Assembly 2020 resolution sponsored by 52 countries, and a proclamation recognizing August 1st as the first Canadian National Emancipation Day.
Our 2022 Proclamation Flag Raising Ceremony will take place on Friday, July 22 nd from 12 noon to 1 p.m. at the Burlington, City Hall and will recognize the start of the 2022 Halton Freedom Festival which includes our 5 th Annual Emancipation Art Exhibition (July 27 – September 6, 2022) at Helson Gallery in Georgetown; and our 2022 Halton Freedom Celebration Festival, taking place at Spencer Smith Park on July 30. Please find Artists and Musician/Event schedule at www.hbhas.ca.
Our flag raising will incorporate a number of speakers, Federal/Provincial and Municipal and Community Leaders welcoming the celebration of everyone’s freedom, still in process.

Blue Mountain Pottery Expo
2022-07-23 10:00 - 17:00 | Beaver Valley Community Centre, 58 Alfred St W, Thornbury, Ontario, N0H 2P0, Canada
A celebration of this iconic Canadian pottery, born from the clay on the Blue Mountain.
This weekend event brings together experts, collectors, filmmakers, designers, pottery employees, antique dealers, museums, curators, craftspeople and you to discover the charm, history and importance of Blue Mountain Pottery.
This pottery was established in the early 1950’s by Jozo Weider, as part of his business portfolio at Blue Mountain. The pottery was a huge success, providing the economic foundation for the Blue Mountain Ski Resort and becoming well-known around the world. Jozo sold the pottery in the late 1960’s and it has continued to grow.
The Craigleith Heritage Depot presents this event with its partners, The Town of The Blue Mountains, The Blue Mountain Pottery Collector’s Club, the Thornbury B.I.A., Royal Canadian Legion Branch 281, Beaver Valley Outreach, the Blue Mountains Historical Society, and others.
Attend the film premiere of our latest REEL History film about Blue Mountain Pottery. Browse the sales and show floor to see the amazing variety and colour of pottery production and chat with the knowledgeable collectors and sellers. Visit the exhibits from local museums and historical societies sharing their expert knowledge and insight. Learn about the origins of the pottery and how one branch of the pottery has become a leading high-tech company in our region.
Admission by donation.

Blue Mountain Pottery Expo
2022-07-24 09:00 - 13:00 | Beaver Valley Community Centre, 58 Alfred St W, Thornbury, Ontario, N0H 2P0, Canada
A celebration of this iconic Canadian pottery, born from the clay on the Blue Mountain.
This weekend event brings together experts, collectors, filmmakers, designers, pottery employees, antique dealers, museums, curators, craftspeople and you to discover the charm, history and importance of Blue Mountain Pottery.
This pottery was established in the early 1950’s by Jozo Weider, as part of his business portfolio at Blue Mountain. The pottery was a huge success, providing the economic foundation for the Blue Mountain Ski Resort and becoming well-known around the world. Jozo sold the pottery in the late 1960’s and it has continued to grow.
The Craigleith Heritage Depot presents this event with its partners, The Town of The Blue Mountains, The Blue Mountain Pottery Collector’s Club, the Thornbury B.I.A., Royal Canadian Legion Branch 281, Beaver Valley Outreach, the Blue Mountains Historical Society, and others.
This is the last day for the Expo. Check out the Collectors’ tables and watch the new documentary film “Blue Clay”!
Admission by donation.

Thunder Bay Museum: Westfort Historical Walking Tour
2022-07-26 19:00 - 21:00 | Gore St W & Brown St, Thunder Bay, Ontario, P7E 3R3, Canada
Join the Thunder Bay Museum on our 2022 Historical Walking Tours. This year, we are offering five tours: Port Arthur, Fort William, Court Street, Westfort, and East End Tours. Learn some fascinating aspects of local history; all you have to do is walk and listen!
The tours are approximately 1.5km and should last about 90 minutes. Be sure to dress appropriately. These tours welcome participants of all ages, but some of the content may not be suitable for small children. Parental discretion is advised.
Admission for the tours is $10 per person. To register visit https://www.thunderbaymuseum.com/walking-tours/ or call the Museum at 807-623-0801.
Preregistration is required for the tours, payment will not be accepted during the tours.

Do you know about the old Town Plot? Dive deep into the stories that have kept Westfort alive for over a century.
The tour is approximately 1.5km and should last about 90 minutes.
The Historical Walking Tours will operate weather permitting, we encourage you to dress appropriately. In instances of inclement weather, we will do our best to reschedule the walking tour. If we are unable to reschedule the tour or you cannot join us at the later date we will be offering full refunds.
These tours welcome participants of all ages, but some of the content may not be suitable for small children. Parental discretion is advised.
Starting location: Westfort Footbridge, Intersection of Gore and Brown Streets

Town of York Historical Society Walking Tour - On the Edge of the City: Toronto in 1833
2022-07-28 14:00 - 15:30 | Toronto’s First Post Office, 260 Adelaide Street East, Toronto, Ontario, M5A 1N1, Canada
Explore the Town of York on foot with one of our expert historians!
Imagine a Toronto where the tallest building is only three stories high, where Lake Ontario reaches Front Street, where the wagon wheels grind through the muddy roads, the air smells of smoke and animal, and the surrounding lands is farms, fields, and forests. This was what the neighbourhood looked like in the early 1800s.
In this walking tour, explore the surviving built environment of the original 10 blocks of Toronto and discover how the Town of York, which started as a colonial outpost with a couple hundred residents, became the City of Toronto in 1834, with a population of just under 10,000.
Tours start and end at Toronto’s First Post Office. Tours run rain or shine, and may cover rough ground, so please dress accordingly. All ages are welcome. Dogs and bicycles are welcome as we walk, though portions of some tours may include areas where they are restricted.

Thunder Bay Museum: Fort William Historical Walking Tour
2022-07-28 19:00 - 21:00 | Thunder Bay Museum, 425 Donald St E., Thunder Bay, Ontario, P7E 5V1, Canada
Join the Thunder Bay Museum on our 2022 Historical Walking Tours. This year, we are offering five tours: Port Arthur, Fort William, Court Street, Westfort, and East End Tours. Learn some fascinating aspects of local history; all you have to do is walk and listen!
The tours are approximately 1.5km and should last about 90 minutes. Be sure to dress appropriately. These tours welcome participants of all ages, but some of the content may not be suitable for small children. Parental discretion is advised.
Admission for the tours is $10 per person. To register visit https://www.thunderbaymuseum.com/walking-tours/ or call the Museum at 807-623-0801.
Preregistration is required for the tours, payment will not be accepted during the tours.

Who was Bliss Gordon and why was he hanged? Was Peter McKellar’s dinosaur the ‘real McCoy’? Why was Mag Matthews arrested 23 times but never incarcerated?
Find out the answers and more in our Fort William historical walking tour!
The tour is approximately 1.5km and should last about 90 minutes.
The Historical Walking Tours will operate weather permitting, we encourage you to dress appropriately. In instances of inclement weather, we will do our best to reschedule the walking tour. If we are unable to reschedule the tour or you cannot join us at the later date we will be offering full refunds.
These tours welcome participants of all ages, but some of the content may not be suitable for small children. Parental discretion is advised.
Starting location: 425 Donald St E, Thunder Bay Museum

Myseum of Toronto: City Social Hour
2022-07-28 19:00 - 21:00, 2022-08-11 19:00 - 21:00 | Myseum of Toronto, 401 Richmond Street West, Studio LL01, Toronto, Ontario, M5V 3A8, Canada
Are you ready to find your Toronto match?
Back by popular demand, join us for City Social Hour on July 28 and August 11 for connections and refreshments at our exhibition, 36 Questions that Lead to Loving Toronto. We invite Torontonians to come with friends or alone to explore the commitment we have to the city and to each other. Get deep, have fun, be brutally honest about what you love or hate (and everything in between) about our city and connect with someone new.
This event welcomes participants who are looking for new friendships, city soulmates, civic accomplices, post-isolation connections, street explorers, good company, and more…
Participants will be matched with fellow Torontonians to explore the exhibition and share their answers. In addition to ‘city speed dating’, mingle with your loved ones, your old and new friends over drinks, conversation, and Toronto-themed ice-breakers.
Register now to reserve a spot for this fun (and free!) social event. Hurry, spaces are limited!
See you there,
xo, Myseum
WHAT TO EXPECT
Doors open at 6:40pm
Event begins at 7pm
On the day of the event, please arrive early in order to check-in and get settled before the guided activities begin at 7pm.
In the event that tickets are sold out, we accept walk-ins but cannot guarantee entry. Walk-in registrations will be first come, first serve based on the number of available spots.
If you register for this event, your spot will be reserved up until 5 minutes after the event starts. After that, the freed spot will be given to any walk-in registrations on a first come, first serve basis.
Light snacks will be served along with a cash bar offering non-alcoholic and alcoholic drink options, including beer from Junction Craft Brewery.

Ontario Heritage Trust: Emancipation Day 2022
2022-07-30 10:30 - 14:30 | Uncle Tom’s Cabin Historic Site, 29251 Freedom Road, Dresden, Ontario, N0P 1M0, Canada
Schedule of activities:
Debut of new name – Join us for the unveiling of the new site name at Noon
Amaria Phillips
10:40 a.m. and 1:45 pm.
Amaria Phillips is the co-founder and President of Concordia University’s Black Student Union. She’ll present two original works of poetry.
Tracy Cain
10:50 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.
Gospel musician Tracy Cain is a fifth-generation Black Canadian with roots in North Buxton, St. Catharines and the Queen’s Bush settlement. Her warm, smooth vocal stylings are influenced by gospel, jazz and R&B.
Terrence Vick
11 a.m.
Great-great-grandson of Josiah Henson, Reverend Terrence Vick will bring remarks on behalf of the Henson family.
Kwame Delfish
11:15 a.m. and 1:50 p.m.
An artist and designer commissioned by the Royal Canadian Mint to design the Underground Railroad commemorative coin for Black History Month 2022, Delfish will speak about his creative process and his work in commemorating Black history and the Underground Railroad.
Susan Cooke Soderberg
11:35 a.m.
A public historian and freelance writer from Maryland, Soderberg is the author of an upcoming biography entitled The Real Josiah Henson: One Man’s Journey from Enslavement to Celebrity.
Heritage Singers Canada
11:55 a.m. and 2 p.m.
A crowd favourite, Heritage Singers Canada return to Emancipation Day to conduct a musical journey from slavery to freedom.
An Enduring Dawn: Dresden’s Black presence since the 19th century
All day
A photographic exhibit highlighting the role people of African descent have played in the early development of the town of Dresden.
Culture Craft
10 a.m. to Noon
An art activity for kids.
Lunch available for purchase, with food and desserts from Dresden Sidestreets Youth Centre.

2022 Halton Freedom Celebration Festival
2022-07-30 12:00 - 23:00 | Spencer Smith Park, 1400 Lakeshore Rd., Burlington, Ontario, L7S 1Y2, Canada
Join us for a day of total pleasure!!! Exquisite R&B, Soul, Funk, Reggae, Salsa, African Dance and Jazz Fusion complimenting Cultural Crafts, Tasty Treats (Food Trucks and Multi-Cultural Vendors), Community Services, Youth Activities and Workshops.
This free festival is exquisite with multi-cultural crafts, food trucks, art, fashion, accessories, cultural and heritage vendors, youth activities and enormous ambience. Bring your chairs, umbrellas, and dancing shoes. See you there!!!
The 2022 Halton Freedom Festival will showcase musicians including Blackburn –2016 Juno runners up and recognized by Rolling Stone Magazine as the best blues band in Canada (2015), enslaved descendants whose father, Bobby “Dean” Blackburn, is recognized on the Mississauga Walk of Fame for bringing R&B into Canada and member of the first black family in Brampton, Ontario; Dejehan Hamilton (MC) aka. Luckystickz (with band) who is Berklee College of Music’s 1st Steel Drum graduate supporting his scholarship in drumming, represents Berklee University globally, has a past playing with Harry Belafonte and is a HBHAS Board Director; and Michael Dunston, renowned vocalist whose group The Lincolns are recognized as the Best R&B band in Canada and Soul Stew (Bamboo’s original home band of 40+ years), We were also pleased to present 11 x Canadian Music Award recipient, Errol Woodward and his Reggae Band to our audiences and the exceptionally talented Neema Children’s Project from Uganda – 19 talented orphans dancing, singing and drumming towards fundraising to send school supplies to hospitals and orphanages back home. We are please to have join us this year: Garnetta & Dagroovmasters – a high energy show band that plays and sing the genres of Blues, Classic Soul & Funk, and a reflection of Canada’s multicultural society! Garnetta was lead vocalist and drummer for a Toronto’s only female reggae band Sweet Sensation, performing on the same stage with Platinum/Grammy Award artists like Maxi Priest, Shabba Ranks, Shaggy, Gregory Issacs and Sean Kingston, Platinum/Grammy award Soul legends, Percy Sledge, Dorothy Moore and The Manhattans, and Carlene Ling, (aka Vanda Li) Founding Director, Bling Entertainment & “Black African Caribbean Canadian Artists Unite” (BACCAU) who perform for Black Music Month (June) and Black African Caribbean Canadian Appreciation Month.

Ontario Black History Society: Emancipation Day Celebration 2022
2022-08-01 12:30 - 14:30 | Fort York National Historic Site, 250 Fort York Blvd, Toronto, Ontario, M5V 3K9, Canada
Join us to celebrate the Emancipation Day Celebration for 2022.
Presented by: The Ontario Black History Society in Partnership with the City of Toronto & Fort York National Historic Site

Thunder Bay Museum: Port Arthur Historical Walking Tour
2022-08-02 19:00 - 21:00 | Thunder Bay Tourist Pagoda, 198 Red River Rd, Thunder Bay, Ontario, P7A 4K8, Canada
Join the Thunder Bay Museum on our 2022 Historical Walking Tours. This year, we are offering five tours: Port Arthur, Fort William, Court Street, Westfort, and East End Tours. Learn some fascinating aspects of local history; all you have to do is walk and listen!
The tours are approximately 1.5km and should last about 90 minutes. Be sure to dress appropriately. These tours welcome participants of all ages, but some of the content may not be suitable for small children. Parental discretion is advised.
Admission for the tours is $10 per person. To register visit https://www.thunderbaymuseum.com/walking-tours/ or call the Museum at 807-623-0801.
Preregistration is required for the tours, payment will not be accepted during the tours.

Who was Oliver Prevost and why did he die? Why does the second floor of the Prince Arthur Hotel sometimes smell like cigar smoke? How did the Queen’s Hotel meet its untimely end?
All of these questions and more will be answered during the Port Arthur Walking Tour.
The tour is approximately 1.5km and should last about 90 minutes.
The Historical Walking Tours will operate weather permitting, we encourage you to dress appropriately. In instances of inclement weather, we will do our best to reschedule the walking tour. If we are unable to reschedule the tour or you cannot join us at the later date we will be offering full refunds.
These tours welcome participants of all ages, but some of the content may not be suitable for small children. Parental discretion is advised.
Starting Location: Thunder Bay Tourist Pagoda, 198 Red River Road

National Trust for Canada (Virtual): Black History in a Modern Cityscape: Geocaching
2022-08-03 12:00 - 13:00 | online
FREE
Historic Places Days is an opportunity to share the places that matter to us, but we know that place-based history is often limited by the physical remnants of communities and settlements, most of which are conserved because of their role in telling a dominant, colonial narrative. This year our aim is to look beyond the established interpretations, find new ways to tell stories of places that matter. This summer the National Trust is supporting a Geocaching initiative with the City of Fredericton and the Black Loyalist Heritage Society to tell invisible stories of the Maritimes’ founding black communities.
Join the National Trust and Graham Nickerson (City of Fredericton) for a webinar on telling invisible stories with Geocaching. Learn more about Black history in Atlantic Canada, and how to share place based history that has been erased.

Thunder Bay Museum: East End Historical Walking Tour
2022-08-04 19:00 - 21:00 | McNaughton St. & McTavish St. Thunder Bay, McNaughton St. & McTavish St., Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
Join the Thunder Bay Museum on our 2022 Historical Walking Tours. This year, we are offering five tours: Port Arthur, Fort William, Court Street, Westfort, and East End Tours. Learn some fascinating aspects of local history; all you have to do is walk and listen!
The tours are approximately 1.5km and should last about 90 minutes. Be sure to dress appropriately. These tours welcome participants of all ages, but some of the content may not be suitable for small children. Parental discretion is advised.
Admission for the tours is $10 per person. To register visit https://www.thunderbaymuseum.com/walking-tours/ or call the Museum at 807-623-0801.
Preregistration is required for the tours, payment will not be accepted during the tours.

How was the East End’s location important to the fur trade? Who were the ‘Black Hand’? Who are the people behind the street names of the East End?
Learn the answers as we walk through one of the most historic parts of the city and explore the progression and dynamic change of the last 300 years.
The tour is approximately 1.5km and should last about 90 minutes.
The Historical Walking Tours will operate weather permitting, we encourage you to dress appropriately. In instances of inclement weather, we will do our best to reschedule the walking tour. If we are unable to reschedule the tour or you cannot join us at the later date we will be offering full refunds.
These tours welcome participants of all ages, but some of the content may not be suitable for small children. Parental discretion is advised.
Starting Location: Corner of McNaughton and McTavish.

Bruce County Historical Society: Authors Night
2022-08-08 19:00 | Bruce County Museum & Cultural Centre, 33 Victoria St N, Southampton, Ontario, N0H 2L0, Canada
Local Authors Night with Wine & Cheese
Join authors Kevin McKague, David Pyper, and Dr. John Carter as they share the insights and inspirations behind their works about Henry Cargill, the history of Sauble Beach, and the 1838 St. Clair Raids. This lively wine and cheese reception is hosted by the Bruce County Genealogical Society and the Bruce County Historical Society at the Bruce County Museum & Cultural Centre. It will include authors’ presentations and opportunities for book signings and purchases.
Free admission. Limited seating. Cash bar available.

Thunder Bay Museum: Court Street Historical Walking Tour
2022-08-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Connaught Square, 285 Red River Road, Thunder Bay, Ontario, P7B 1A9
Join the Thunder Bay Museum on our 2022 Historical Walking Tours. This year, we are offering five tours: Port Arthur, Fort William, Court Street, Westfort, and East End Tours. Learn some fascinating aspects of local history; all you have to do is walk and listen!
The tours are approximately 1.5km and should last about 90 minutes. Be sure to dress appropriately. These tours welcome participants of all ages, but some of the content may not be suitable for small children. Parental discretion is advised.
Admission for the tours is $10 per person. To register visit https://www.thunderbaymuseum.com/walking-tours/ or call the Museum at 807-623-0801.
Preregistration is required for the tours, payment will not be accepted during the tours.

Who was William Leithenen and how did he meet his tragic fate? Why did the Queen place a naval training center so far from the ocean? Who were some of Port Arthur’s most well-to-do residents and where did they live?
Learn the answer’s to these questions and more on this tour!
The tour is approximately 1.5 km and should last about 90 minutes.
The Historical Walking Tours will operate weather permitting, we encourage you to dress appropriately. In instances of inclement weather, we will do our best to reschedule the walking tour. If we are unable to reschedule the tour or you cannot join us at the later date we will be offering full refunds.
Our tours welcome participants of all ages, but some of the content may not be suitable for small children. Parental discretion is advised.
Starting Location: Connaught Square, 285 Red River Rd

Thunder Bay Museum / Friends of the Finnish Labour Temple: News from the Giant
2022-08-10 14:00 | Boshcoff Summer Stage, Magnus Theatre, 10 Algoma St S., Thunder Bay, Ontario, P7B 3A7
A live screening event held at the Boshcoff Summer Stage, Magnus Theatre, Wednesday, August 10th at 2:00pm.
The event is free to attend and all ages are welcome!

Toronto Book Launch for "The Castleton Massacre"
2022-08-13 14:00 - 16:00 | John McKenzie House, 34 Parkview Ave., North York, Ontario, M2N 3Y2, Canada
Join authors Sharon Anne Cook & Margaret Carson for the Toronto book launch of “The Castleton Massacre at John McKenzie House on August 13th from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
The Castleton Massacre: Survivors’ Stories of the Killins Femicide
by Sharon Anne Cook & Margaret Carson
A former United Church minister massacres his family. What led to this act of femicide, and why were his victims forgotten?
On May 2, 1963, Robert Killins, a former United Church minister, slaughtered every woman in his family but one. She (and her brother) lived to tell the story of what motivated a talented man who had been widely admired, a scholar and graduate from Queen’s University, to stalk and terrorize the women in his family for almost twenty years and then murder them.
Through extensive oral histories, Cook and Carson painstakingly trace the causes of a femicide in which four women and two unborn babies were murdered over the course of one bloody evening. While they situate this murderous rampage in the literature on domestic abuse and mass murders, they also explore how the two traumatized child survivors found their way back to health and happiness. Told through vivid first-person accounts, this family memoir explores how a murderer was created.
Author’s website: https://sharonannecook.com/
Buy the book: https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459749863-the-castleton-massacre

Friends of the South Grey Museum Speaker Series 2022: Douglas Gibson, "Great Scots: Celebrating Canadian Storytellers with Links to Scotland, 1867 to Today"
2022-08-17 19:00 | online
The Friends of the South Grey Museum invite you to the Speakers Series 2022, developed and hosted by Barry Penhale. As someone with an interest in the Museum and its programs, you know how much we have all missed many activities during the COVID-19 pandemic, including our series of talks. We decided to welcome our supporters back to a virtual series for 2022, offered as webinars via Zoom with another eight programs, occurring as usual on the third Wednesday of each month, April to November, at 7:00 pm.
The Museum being no longer available as a host site, and with the continuing threat of COVID, going virtual was the obvious solution. Moving to a virtual delivery brings with it some additional costs, so we have made this a subscription series, but we’ve kept the usual at-the-door cost as a household fee of $10 per session. We are grateful to the Municipality of Grey Highlands for continuing their support for the presenters.

Born in Scotland in 1943, Doug Gibson came to Canada in 1967. He spent his career as an editor and publisher, becoming what the Globe and Mail called “a publishing icon.” The fiction authors he edited over the years include such literary icons as Hugh MacLennan, Morley Callaghan, Robertson Davies, Alice Munro, and more. Since retirement from McClelland & Stewart in 2008, he has become an author and fabled storyteller. His lively new presentation involves dozens of excellent Anthony Jenkins caricatures featuring the 16 selected fiction writers. Doug talks about the authors against the backdrop of their historic backgrounds. For each, the show will include a burst of music from the time period, along with examples of iconic works of art being produced. Versions of this tribute to Canadian artists in general have already played at the University of Guelph, in Montreal and Quebec City. Enthusiastic Maritime audiences attended this show in Saint John, Charlottetown, Antigonish, and Halifax. The tour continues…

Many Sessions, Your Choice
Hoping you will join us for another exciting series, this time from the comfort of your home, no uncomfortable folding chairs, and no expenditure on gasoline!
Choose which parts of the series you prefer. Visit our web site for in-depth descriptions of The Sessions.
Full Series of all eight sessions monthly April to November
with one free session discount
for $70
OR
Half Series of four sessions monthly April to July
for $40
OR
Half Series of four sessions monthly August to November
for $40

Buy $70 Full Series (8 sessions) April to November
Buy $40 Half Series (4 sessions) April to July
Buy $40 Half Series (4 sessions) August to November

Town of York Historical Society Walking Tour - 1813: Terror in the Town of York
2022-08-18 19:00 - 20:30 | Toronto’s First Post Office, 260 Adelaide Street East, Toronto, Ontario, M5A 1N1, Canada
Explore the Town of York on foot with one of our expert historians!
In this walking tour, join us as we explore the Battle of York while we walk the original 10 blocks of the early city.
Tours start and end at Toronto’s First Post Office. Tours run rain or shine, and may cover rough ground, so please dress accordingly. All ages are welcome. Dogs and bicycles are welcome as we walk, though portions of some tours may include indoor areas where they are restricted.

Toronto Railway Museum Online Lecture: Railway Technology in the Canadian First World War Effort
2022-08-18 19:00 - 20:30 | online
Join us! “Railway Technology in the Canadian First World War Effort” on August 18 at 7:00 pm EST.
Explore the complexities of transportation and logistics in the forward areas of the Western Front during the First World War. Join us and presenter Andrew Iarocci on Thursday, August 18 at 7:00 PM (EST) for a free online lecture. Learn about how railway technologies and expertise were gradually integrated into the British (and Canadian) transportation system, in an effort to streamline and rationalize the movement of ammunition, supplies, and personnel.
TICKETS
Tickets for this event are free, although registration is required.
Attendees will get access to our exclusive Zoom meeting room, where they can engage directly with the presenter and museum historians in a post-lecture Q&A. The event will begin at 7pm Eastern Standard Time, and will end at 8:30pm EST.
ABOUT ANDREW IAROCCI
Andrew Iarocci teaches history at Western University. He is a former collections manager (transportation and artillery) at the Canadian War Museum. His research interests include First World War operations and logistics, the material culture of the Canadian Army, and military transportation design. He is the author of A Nation in Conflict: Canada and the Two World Wars, and Shoestring Soldiers: The 1st Canadian Division at War, 1914-1915.
ABOUT THE TORONTO RAILWAY MUSEUM (TRM)
The Toronto Railway Museum (TRM) brings people together by telling stories of Toronto’s railway heritage. The Museum is located in the heart of downtown Toronto and is typically open year-round. TRM presents exhibits, tours, educational programs and publications that broaden the understanding and appreciation of Toronto’s rich railway history. TRM is committed to telling the stories of the railways, and welcoming conversations of its varied experiences through its lecture series, exhibits and integrated programming with a mission to learn from the past to make the future better.

Etobicoke Historical Society Summer History Series: Etobicoke's Historic Lakeshore
2022-08-18 19:30 | online
This is a free and open online public event via Zoom webinar. For how to join in, please visit our Summer History page.
Mimico, New Toronto and Long Branch share many things, including the streetcars of Lakeshore Boulevard West and the beautiful shores of Lake Ontario, but they have very different histories. Mimico is an older town, once the home of palatial estates. New Toronto had its start as a gritty industrial suburb. And Long Branch began as a gated, upper class cottage community and resort in Victorian times. Join EHS Historian Richard Jordan as he travels back in time on this virtual historic tour of Etobicoke’s three lakeshore communities.
Richard Jordan is an EHS Board Member, having previously served as a Director from 1980 to 1996, including a two-year term as President. He also served two terms as a citizen member of the Etobicoke Historical Board in the 1980s.
​Richard studied Geography and Environmental Studies at York University and later contributed a local heritage column in the Toronto Star from 1984 to 1991 as well as feature articles in a number of genealogy and history magazines. Richard’s family genealogy book, “Beyond the Great Pine Ridge,” was published in 2004 and a new book, “Ernest D. Banting: Life in Weston 1921-1973,” was being published this year. Richard is well known for his speaking engagements with historical societies and seniors groups.

Bruce County Heritage Farm Show 2022
2022-08-19 09:00 - 20:00 | Bruce County Heritage Farm, Arran-Elderslie, Ontario, N0G 2N0, Canada
A Family Fun event! Come and experience Antique Steam Tractors, Steam Engines, Tractor Pulls, Women’s & Children’s Programs, Car & Truck Show, Craft Shows, Good Food & Live Entertainment
Featuring FORD & lesser known classics
Visit www.bruceheritage.com for more information
Heritage Farm, 89 Concession 2A, Paisley, Ontario.
Admission $10/person – Children 12 and under are FREE! 2 km South of Paisley on County Rd. 3 ~ See you there!
As per Grey Bruce Public Health, all current COVID-19 restrictions will be followed.
