The Ontario Historical Society

Exporail the Canadian Railway Museum - Charles Melville Hays and the Canada Car, A Virtual Tour
2023-04-15 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Toronto) | online
Live virtual tour on April 15, 2023, at 3:00 pm in English (EST)
Duration: approximately 45 minutes (+15 minutes for questions)
Exporail, the Canadian Railway Museum is offering a free virtual tour of the
Canada Car, once used by Charles Melville Hays, former president of the Grand
Trunk Railway. This car, built in 1897, is usually inaccessible to the public
when visiting Exporail. This unique experience will allow visitors to explore
the vehicle’s interior and hidden secrets. Moreover, visitors will learn
more about the life of Charles Melville Hays, a great visionary of Canadian
railways.
To sign up: https://exporail.org/en/virtual-tours/

Myseum of Toronto: BEYOND PERIPHERY: Exhibition Launch & Documentary Roundtable
2023-04-16 14:00 - 16:00 | The Lyceum Gallery, 969 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario, M6J 2V1, Canada
Part of the Intersections Festival 2023 collection
No Silence on Race + the Ontario Jewish Archives invite you to the launch of this unique exhibition as a part of the Intersections festival.
Learn about the ways that multi-ethnic Jewish people in Ontario share their experiences and explore ideas of representation, intersectionality, ethnicity, race, and sexuality.
We’ll be celebrating the launch of this exhibition with a roundtable discussion, performances from some of Periphery’s participants, and food + drink.
Periphery, the documentary, was filmed and photographed two years ago. Where is Toronto’s Jewish community now with these conversations both within and outside of Jewish communal spaces? And, how do their experiences continue to translate within the context of the city? Explore these reflections in this exhibition and roundtable discussion.
All are welcome to join us in exploring these questions at this exhibition launch party!
About the Roundtable Discussion
There will be an exclusive Q&A with the director of the Periphery documentary and a selection of the film’s participants, whose stories are also featured in this exhibition.
This roundtable discussion will explore speakers’ various multi-ethnic Jewish identities (e.g. mixed heritage, hyphenated identities, etc.), which are highlighted in the film and the exhibit.

Myseum of Toronto: Artist-Guided Tour of SweetWater Outdoor Art Installation
2023-04-16 14:00 - 16:00, 2023-04-23 14:00 - 16:00 | Black Creek Community Farm, 4929 Jane Street, North York, Ontario, M3N 2K8, Canada
Experience this unique outdoor art installation, woven throughout the forest of Black Creek Community Farm.
Journey through Indigenous art, ceremony, and perspectives on land stewardship. SweetWater is an outdoor art installation, woven throughout the forest of Black Creek Community Farm.
This is a unique opportunity to see the exhibition as led by artists from the Sweet Grass Roots Collective.
These artist-led tours run every thirty minutes between 2pm and 4pm at Black Creek Community Farm.
About SweetWater
This unique installation explores maple tapping from an Indigenous perspective and honours the maple’s sweetwater through ceremony and art. In a guided walk through Black Creek Community Farm’s forest, you’ll experience traditional Indigenous maple baskets and settler-style aluminum maple buckets which have been Indigenized through visual art and audio soundscapes.
Through sound, song and sweetwater, this experience invites you to make meaningful change as a treaty person yourself.

Albion Bolton Historical Society: Seven Hotels & a Distillery: The History of Bolton's Hospitality Industry in the 19th Century
2023-04-17 19:30 | Albion Bolton Community Centre (Meeting Room C, 2nd Floor), 150 Queen St. South, Bolton, Ontario, L7E 1E3, Canada
Presented by Valerie Mackie.
While Bolton was not alone in having inns and hotels as part of the village landscape, it is certainly unique in having had seven in operation during the 1870s, six within a two-block radius along Queen Street. With the use of photographs from the Society’s archival collection and modern photos, Valerie will identify their locations and what that location looks like today.
Questions: Nathan at 905-584-2801 nhillerphoto@bell.net

Woodland Cultural Centre (Virtual): Public Virtual Stereotypes and Racism Workshop
2023-04-19 18:00 | online
The Woodland Cultural Centre is hosting a virtual Stereotypes and Racism workshop on April 19 at 6pm. Your donation will help support our education department to create and deliver virtual programming at the Woodland Cultural Centre. We want to continue to deliver the highest quality programs centered on a Hodinohsho:ni worldview, celebrating, and sharing Indigenous cultures, languages, and art.
In this presentation we will examine stereotypes and racism and how society shapes and perpetuates stereotypes and racism through advertising, movies, system/institutional racism, and more.
This is the first time we are offering this virtual session to the public! Don’t miss your opportunity to be a part of this important discussion centering on stereotypes of Indigenous people and the racism they still face today. Make sure to take this crucial step towards Truth and Reconciliation with the Woodland Cultural Centre!

North York Historical Society April 2023 Meeting: Nate Hendley on The Beatle Bandit
2023-04-19 18:30 - 20:30 | North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge St., North York, ON, M2N 5N9, Canada
Nate Hendley is a Toronto-based journalist and true-crime author. His most recent book, The Beatle Bandit, won the Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence for Non-Fiction 2022. Nate has also written books about gangsters, cons and hoaxes, and bandit duo Bonnie and Clyde. For more information about Nate’s books and background, visit his website at www.natehendley.com.
The Beatle Bandit: A Serial Bank Robber’s Deadly Heist, A Cross-Country Manhunt, and the Insanity Plea that Shook the Nation
Matthew Kerry Smith was a troubled navy veteran who robbed Toronto-area banks in the early 1960s to finance a one-man revolution. On July 24, 1964, disguised in a Halloween mask and a “Beatle” wig, Smith held up a bank at Bathurst Manor Plaza in North York, Ontario. Smith killed a patron who tried to intervene, then escaped. Dubbed “The Beatle Bandit” by the media, Smith’s actions fueled a nationwide debate about gun control, insanity pleas, and the death penalty.
The book, The Beatle Bandit, written by Nate Hendley and published in November 2021 by Dundurn Press, details Smith’s life.
This is an in-person program. No registration required.
This program is co-sponsored by the North York Historical Society and the Society and Recreation department of the North York Central Library.

Orillia Museum of Art and History (Virtual): The Ontario Fire College: Then and Now
2023-04-19 19:00 | online
The Ontario Fire College (OFC) was established in 1958. For the next 63 years, fire officers and firefighters from across Ontario came to the OFC in Gravenhurst to prepare for their roles in saving lives and property from the hazards of fire in an increasingly hostile environment.
Thousands of students from across Canada passed through its doors before it was closed in 2021 by the Ontario government
John Judy Humphries, who will take us on a visual journey of the OFC, as it evolved to become a state-of-the-art fire training facility.

Kingston Historical Society April 2023 Meeting (In-Person and Virtual)
2023-04-19 19:00 | Kingsbridge Retirement Community, 950 Centennial Dr., Kingston, Ontario, K7M 0G8, Canada
John Grenville, former Curator and Historical Research Officer at Fort Henry and long-time investigator of Kingston’s military architecture, will report on his research into the city’s iconic Market Battery.

We return to in-person meetings in January, now at the Kingsbridge Retirement Community which has graciously agreed to let us use their very comfortable theatre lounge for our meetings. This is a most attractive location with comfortable armchairs and the most up-to-date audio-visual equipment. The spaciousness of this venue also allows us to offer light refreshments and an opportunity for socialization after each lecture.
The Kingsbridge Retirement Community, 950 Centennial Drive is the tall building just south of Princess Street. Ask for the theatre lounge on the lower floor. Enter by the prominent door on the east side. Someone will be at the door to give you directions and to check your double vaccination status. There is free visitor parking along the north side of the building. Express buses #501 and 502 serve upper Princess Street to very near Kingsbridge. Bus #4 offers slower service along Princess Street from downtown. Use the Centennial Drive bus stop.
Covid precautions: Please wear a mask on entry to the building, but you may remove your mask once in the room. Proof of vaccination is mandatory. The building is kept meticulously sanitized.

Myseum of Toronto (Virtual): A Roundtable on Trans Histories +Activism in Toronto | Myseum + The ArQuives
2023-04-19 19:00 - 20:30 | online
Myseum of Toronto and The ArQuives invite you to join us for a roundtable discussion about trans activism in Toronto between the 60s + 90s.
This inter-generational panel of experts, community members and activists will explore the history of community, resistance, and care under extreme circumstances.
This roundtable will explore the implications and impact of communities whose members have to act as their own advocates in the face of violence, oppression, and adversity.
This roundtable discussion is an associated with the ActiVisions exhibition within Mysuem’s Intersections Festival, a free city-wide festival running April 15th to 30th.
More about ActiVisions
In this one-of-a-kind exhibition, The ArQuives opens their doors for the public to experience their extensive Trans Collections. Curated by Tobaron Waxman, this exhibition explores a selection of trans histories of resilience in Toronto from the 1950s to the 1990s
Waxman offers a unique lens into Toronto’s trans community histories, focusing on the fight for access to trans-aware health care, language, imagery, and mutual aid. The ArQuives Trans Collections collects memories, art, and documents to share histories of community activism and trans triumphs under extreme circumstances.
The ArQuives’ Trans Collection is a resource and catalyst for those who strive for a future world where LGBTQ2+ people are accepted, valued, and celebrated.

Bayview Cummer Neighbourhood Association: Age-Friendly Technologies
2023-04-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Brebeuf College School, 211 Steeles Ave E., North York, Ontario, M2M 3Y6, Canada
The Bayview Cummer Neighbourhood Association (BCNA) is partnering with Brebeuf College School’s, STEAM program on an event for homeowners to learn about autonomous and artificial intelligence technologies to make their home maintenance/chores more manageable, and to discuss new technology like CHAT GPT. BCNA will be providing dinner/food for homeowners who attend.
The session is a one hour talk from Dr. Julien Li-Chee who holds a PhD in Geomatics Engineering from YorkU is a Robotical Engineer working for Trimble designing navigation systems for autonomous vehicles; and Alice Xu the Director Digital Strategy at the City of Toronto.

Toronto Railway Museum (Virtual): Streetcars and the Shifting Geographies of Toronto
2023-04-20 19:00 - 20:30 | online
Join us for “Streetcars and the Shifting Geographies of Toronto”, an online lecture on April 20!
What can photos taken by streetcar enthusiasts reveal about the changing nature of cities? This is the question explored by Brian and Michael Doucet in their book Streetcars and the Shifting Geographies of Toronto: a visual analysis of change. The Doucets carefully and meticulously rephotograph these images taken in the 1960s and 70s to bring them into dialogue with contemporary planning, policy, political and public debates.
Streetcar enthusiasts did not intend to document the major forces of change shaping cities, but their images show far more than just the vehicles. In pursuit of their hobby, these enthusiasts photographed cities in ways that very few other people did, and took pictures in parts of the city that would have otherwise gone unphotographed.
When paired with photos taken at the same locations today, these images show the subtle and not-so-subtle economic, social, demographic and spatial changes that have taken place as Toronto has transitioned from an industrial and provincial city, to one of the world’s major global metropolises. They show how these forces of change are reflected in the buildings, streets and land uses across the city.
There are many books, studies and reports that try to understand long-term changes in cities such as Toronto. Streetcars is one of the few that uses visual images as the primary way to analyse change. The Doucets aim to challenge everyone – scholars, students, planners, politicians and the wider public – to look at their cities in new and different ways.
Join us for this engaging and insightful discussion about how photography can be used to better understand cities and urban change.

UEL Association of Canada Toronto Branch April 2023 Meeting (Virtual): "The Mills Loyalists of Cumberland County, N.S."
2023-04-20 19:30 | online
By Rev. Dr. Jonathan Mills UE, an ordained minister in the Canadian Baptist family of churches. He took an interest in genealogy when his mother became ill and the preservation of the family history took on a new sense of urgency (aka borderline obsession).
His presentation will highlight three major areas including:
1) an overview of his personal journey and his Mills Loyalist roots,
2) his discoveries and progress to the Archives in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, and
3) a deep dive into Y-DNA and how it helped solve a 240 year old mystery regarding the relationships between four Mills Loyalists of Cumberland County.
Contact Sally Gustin torontouel@gmail.com for the zoom link.

Toronto Branch OGS - Black History in Ontario: Free Online Series
2023-04-20 19:30 - 20:30, 2023-04-27 19:30 - 20:30 | online
Toronto Branch is excited to announce our next online series, which will focus on Black history in Ontario. If you’re interested in learning more about this topic you’ll want to join us on April 13, 20 and 27 at 7:30 pm EDT.

Three speakers will tell us about their extensive research into the history of people of Black heritage in Ontario. They’ve discovered some fascinating individuals and sources for research.

April 13: The Underground Railroad
In the first session on April 13, Adrienne Shadd will discuss her research for the book The Underground Railroad: Next Stop, Toronto! You will learn about Deborah Brown and other freedom seekers who settled in the York Township west area.

April 20: The Search for Alfred Lafferty
In the second session, Hilary Dawson will share her search for Alfred Lafferty, a Black educator and lawyer. The Lafferty family arrived in Canada in the 1830s as penniless and illiterate freedom seekers from the United States. You’ll learn how Alfred excelled and became the first Canadian-born Black lawyer in Ontario.

April 27: Black History in Ontario, 1793–1965
And in the final session on April 27, Winston Anderson will present an overview of events in Ontario, beginning with the Act to Limit Slavery passed in 1793 and taking us forward to 1965. He will explore the lives of people of Black heritage, both free and enslaved, who shaped Toronto.

Each session will consist of a presentation and an opportunity to ask questions. The lectures will be recorded, so that registrants who can’t attend the live presentations may watch at a more convenient time. There is no charge for the series but you must pre-register HERE

Myseum of Toronto: Nuville at Allan Gardens, Care & Community | MYSEUM INTERSECTIONS FESTIVAL
2023-04-22 11:00 | Allan Gardens, 160 Gerrard Street East, Toronto, Ontario, M5A 2E5, Canada
Step into the shoes of a citizen from a megacity of the future in this experimental role-playing game.
RaaraLab invites attendees on this interactive walk, set in a Torontonian sci-fi future. Be a part of the first audience to test this experimental game!
In order to join this unique test group, you’ll need a smartphone, a set of headphones, and a keen curiosity to explore the early stages of this unconventional new game.
On this Nuville tour, you’ll test a live-action-role-playing game directed through your phone. You’ll role-play with fellow attendees as Nuville citizens who are on a mission to hack the city’s “algorithm.” You’ll be directed to complete a series of tasks that challenge the flow of urban life by rebuilding your relationship to place, presence and humanness.
Step into the world of Nuville.
In the world of Nuville, you live in a future where the planet’s population has found refuge from the climate crisis in a megacity built by artificial intelligence. Built on robotic intelligence, productivity is the name of the game – but at what cost to humanity?
While Nuville appears to be the high-tech city of our dreams, humans have become disconnected from city-building, history, the environment, and each other. Wanting to reconnect, you join a collective of citizens-turned-hackers, called “Hacker D-Central,” who want to hack the system and make Nuville more human.

Kingston & District Branch UELAC (In-Person and Virtual): "Fort Frontenac" by Jean Rae Baxter
2023-04-22 13:00 | St. Paul’s Anglican Church, Kingston, 137 Queen St., Kingston, Ontario, K7K 1A8, Canada
Kingston & District Branch UELAC meets on Saturday, April 22 at 1:00 pm. This will be a Hybrid presentation with many of us in person at St. Paul’s Hall, 137 Queen Street, Kingston (doors open at 12:30 p.m.) Others will join us by Zoom about 1:00 pm.
Our Speaker will be Jean Rae Baxter with a talk called “Fort Frontenac: The Rise and Fall of New France’s Key to the West.” This presentation follows the fortunes of Fort Frontenac over the centuries — how it was knocked down, rebuilt, abandoned, rebuilt, blown up, rebuilt again, destroyed by the British in the last days of New France and, finally, became the site for the Loyalist settlement at Cataraqui following the American Revolution. And it all began with the beaver.
No registration required, link.

UEL Association of Canada - Sir Guy Carleton Branch (In-Person and Virtual): 2023 Spring Social and AGM
2023-04-22 14:00 - 16:00 | Ottawa City Archives, 100 Tallwood Dr, Nepean, Ontario, K2G 4R7, Canada
The Sir Guy Carleton Spring Social and AGM will be held 2:00-4:00pm on Saturday, April 22, 2023.
Venue: Room 115 (ground floor), Ottawa City Archives, 100 Tallwood Drive, Ottawa, ON. Free parking on site.
Guest speaker: Rev. Becket Soule
Topic: “Researching Loyalist Ancestors: US Records”
Muster rolls, town records, land records, histories, and other records, can provide a great deal of information about your loyalist ancestors. This first section reviews many U.S. records and published resources that can get you started on your research.
The Rev. Dr. Becket Soule is emeritus Professor of Canon Law at Saint Paul University, Ottawa. He is currently pastor of Saint Margaret of Scotland Catholic Church in Maggie Valley, high in the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina. Becket is a prolific author in law, history, and genealogy; his latest book is Passengers of the Fortune – 1621. Becket is Deputy Governor and Elder of the Canadian Society of Mayflower Descendants, and Governor of the Speedwell (virtual) Colony of the North Carolina Mayflower Society. One of his current projects is documenting the links between Mayflower passengers and Loyalists: his own Loyalist connections are with the Hatfields of Westchester and Dutchess Counties, NY, and Nova Scotia.
To attend by Zoom, e-mail the Branch: carletonuel@hotmail.com. The meeting link will be sent the week of the meeting

Little EGG Gallery: Under 18 Spring Show, Opening Reception
2023-04-22 19:00 - 20:30 | Little EGG Gallery, 291 Eglinton Ave E, Toronto, Ontario, M4P 1L6, Canada
Featuring over 40 curated artwork representing artists from Canada and around the world, the Under 18 Spring Show is a showcase and celebration of the next generation of contemporary art. With artists as young as 7, all the way to 17, this unique show features a diverse range of artwork and styles.
Don’t miss the opening reception and award ceremony at the Little EGG Gallery to meet all the artists and our juror, Brad Weatherburn.

Toronto Bottle & Antique Show and Sale
2023-04-23 10:00 - 14:30 | Pickering Recreational Complex, 1867 Valley Farm Road, Pickering, Ontario, Canada
The Four Seasons Bottle Collector Club is hosting their annual Toronto Bottle & Antique Show and Sale.
Join us to find treasures, meet other bottle enthusiasts and take advantage of the appraisal table.
Antique and vintage bottles, syphons, milks, medicines, sealer jars, pop and gingers, crocks, signs, and related advertising.

In our 30th year, the event is an annual collector show and sale with a “Historical Display” section
– Largest and longest running National Antique Bottle and Stoneware show in Canada.
– Run by The Four Seasons Bottle Club of Toronto
– Most collectors come to the show looking for the “opportunity” something unique to fit their collection
– Others visit for something they like for décor or vintage decorating
– Goods in this show are almost entirely of Canadian origin
– Dealers and customers will come in from across Canada
– Typical draw 300+
The vendors mainly offer.
– Stoneware and Redware containers, before the advent of mass-produced glass and metal packaging
stoneware was widely manufactured across Canada, most was made in Canada in locations such as
Picton, Belleville, Cornwall, St. Jean, Medicine Hat, and London
– Glass Bottles, dairy, sodas, medicals, fruit jars of all sorts some going back to the origins of glass making
in Canada
– This year we are proud to support the launch of the new book “The Potters Reach” by Moe Johnson,
the history of Ontario made earthenware and Stoneware pottery!
Historical displays.
The Historical displays section showcases early Canadian;
o Pharmaceutical Manufacturers (quack cure-alls).
o Dairy bottles, one of them is war slogans this time
o Sodas
o Fruit jars, yes some very valuable ones…
o Stoneware, packaging before the advent of tins and bottle

Location: The Chestnut Hill Developments Recreational Complex.
Admission: $5.00

Culinary Historians of Canada (Virtual): Mrs. Raffald: British Cooking & Housekeeping in the 1700s with Neil Buttery
2023-04-23 13:00 - 14:00 | online
Food historian Neil Buttery delves into the life & food of Elizabeth Raffald: cookbook author, tavern keeper, mother, midwife & exorcist!
The great Elizabeth Raffald used to be a household name, and her list of accomplishments would make even the highest of achievers feel suddenly impotent. After becoming housekeeper at Arley Hall in Cheshire at age 25, she married and moved to Manchester, transforming the Manchester food scene and business community, writing the first A to Z directory and creating the first domestic servants’ registry office—the first temping agency if you will. Not only that, she set up a cookery school and ran a high-class tavern attracting both gentry and nobility. She reputedly gave birth to 16 daughters, wrote a book on midwifery and was an effective exorcist of evil spirits.
But all this pales in comparison to her biggest achievement: her cookery book The Experienced English Housekeeper. Published in 1769, it ran to over 20 editions and brought her fame and fortune… until her alcoholic husband bankrupted the family, twice.
Her book, however, lived on. Influential and often imitated (but never bettered), it became the must-have volume for any kitchen, and it helped form our notion of traditional British food as we think of it today.
To tell the story of Elizabeth’s tumultuous rise and fall—and how her influential book helped form our notion of traditional British food —historian Neil Buttery doesn’t just delve into the history of food in the 18th century; he has to look at trade and empire, domestic service, the agricultural revolution, women’s rights, and much, much more.
A question & answer period will follow the talk.

Niagara-on-the-Lake Museum: Famous & Infamous – Diana Kendall on CS Lewis
2023-04-24 14:00 - 15:30 | Niagara-on-the-Lake Museum, 43 Castlereagh Street, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, L0S 1J0, Canada
Join us for a program in the galleries once a month when we discuss the life and times of a famous or infamous person or event from the past.
Free admission. No reservations required.

North Toronto Historical Society: The Don: Inmates, Guards, Governors and The Gallows
2023-04-26 19:00 | Northern District Branch, Toronto Public Library, 40 Orchard View Boulevard, Toronto, Ontario, M4R 1B9, Canada
Join writer and researcher Lorna Poplak as she presents facts behind the Don Jail’s location and construction and shares tales about inmates, guards, governors, gangs, officials and even a pair of star-crossed lovers whose doomed romance unfolded in the shadow of the gallows. The illustrated talk will highlight the Don’s tumultuous descent from palace to hellhole, its shuttering and lapse into decay, and its astonishing modern-day metamorphosis.
Copies of Laura’s book, The Don: The Story of Toronto’ Infamous Jail will be available for purchase prior to the presentation.
Masks are not required, but are strongly recommended.
NOTE: this meeting will not be available online.

Historical Society of Ottawa (Virtual): The Role of Art and Artists in Ottawa's History
2023-04-26 19:00 | online
When the Arts Canada Institute wanted to commission a series of new books about the history of art and artists across Canada, it began by approaching Jim Burant to write a book about the art and artists of Ottawa.
The comprehensive book that resulted from Jim’s work is a spectacular illustrated tour of Ottawa’s surprising artistic past.
It also proves a striking reminder of how invaluable the earliest sketches and paintings of Bytown are to our understanding of our past… and of how the photographs of Topley and Karsh and others have provided us with further lasting images of those bygone eras.
Thanks to the brushes and camera lenses of these long ago artists, we are able to witness the Chaudiere Falls before tamed… the Rideau Canal first being surveyed by Colonel By… Vice-Regal couples hosting early skating parties… the great fires that swept through Ottawa-Hull… Winston Churchill visiting during wartime.
History from even further back is preserved in ancient Indigenous pictographs.
And what of 20th century artists like Mine & MacLeod and contemporary artists like Annie Pootoogook?
Join us on Wednesday, April 26 @ 7 p.m. on Zoom with archivist and author Jim Burant as guest speaker for our HSO Speaker Series presentation, “The Role of Art & Artists in Ottawa’s History”.

The Historical Society of St. Catharines Online Lecture (Virtual): Local Sport History
2023-04-27 19:30 | online
Presented by presented by Liz Vlossak, Brock University history professor with an interest in local sport and co-director of the Sport Oral History Archive via Zoom.
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Myseum of Toronto: Nuville at the Brickworks, Natural Medicine | MYSEUM INTERSECTIONS FESTIVAL
2023-04-29 11:00 | Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, M4W 3X8, Canada

Wampum Belts: Woven through Anishnaabe History
2023-04-29 13:30 - 15:30 | Simcoe County Museum, 1151 ON-26, Minesing, Ontario, L9X 0Z7, Canada
What is Wampum? How was it by the First Peoples of Eastern Woodland? Join Brian Charles, an Indigenous Historian for the answers.
Register early for this free in-person event HERE
This workshop is offered in partnership with the Simcoe County Historical Association and the Simcoe County Museum.

Myseum of Toronto: SweetWater: Artist-Guided Tour and Closing Ceremony (All Are Welcome)
2023-04-30 14:00 - 18:00 | Black Creek Community Farm, 4929 Jane Street, North York, Ontario, M3N 2K8, Canada
Join us for the final journey through SweetWater, an installation of art and ceremony woven through the forest of Black Creek Farm.
All are welcome to join Sweet Grass Roots Collective for conversation, food and ceremony in the Wiigwam.
— Thanksgiving Address by Wyandot FaithKeeper Catherine Tammaro
— Opening Words with Anishinaabe Elder Vivian Recollet
— Closing Ceremony in the Wiigwam
For this final journey, there will be a sacred Fire lit by Fire Keeper Joshua Recollet with Helper Randy Merasty.
About the SweetWater
This unique installation explores maple tapping from an Indigenous perspective and honours the maple’s sweetwater through ceremony and art. In a guided walk through Black Creek Community Farm’s forest, you’ll experience traditional Indigenous maple baskets and settler-style aluminum maple buckets which have been Indigenized through visual art and audio soundscapes.
Through sound, song and sweetwater, this experience invites you to make meaningful change as a treaty person yourself.

Lundy's Lane Historical Society Presents Terry Boulton, "Commercial Fishing in Niagara-On-The-Lake" From Boom to Bust"
2023-05-01 19:00 | Niagara Military Museum, 5409 Victoria Ave., Niagara Falls, Ontario, L2E 4E2, Canada
The next regular meeting of the Lundy’s Lane Historical Society will be held Monday May 1 at 7 p.m. at the Niagara Falls Military Museum, 5409 Victoria Avenue. Parking is in the rear.
The speaker for the evening will be Mr. Terry Boulton, a local historian from Niagara-on-the-Lake. Mr. Boulton has prepared a very interesting presentation entitled: “Commercial Fishing in Niagara-On-The-Lake: From Boom to Bust.”

Guelph Historical Society Evenings with History: Guelph Historical Railway Association
2023-05-02 19:30 | Guelph Museum, 52 Norfolk St, Guelph, Ontario, N1H 4H8, Canada
Join the GHS in a fundraiser to support the restoration of the Guelph Historical Railway Association’s Passenger Coach. The GHS will match donations at the door up to $2,000.
Speaker: Eric Repaci
Eric Repaci from the Guelph Historical Railway Association will discuss the restoration of the coach and the fundraising efforts to get them back on track after recent thefts. Their restored 1960’s rail coach will generate revenue and give riders an educational experience of historical rail travel.
Free & open to the public
Donations welcome
