National Trust for Canada (Virtual): Reconciliation in Heritage
2022-03-30 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Toronto) | online
FREE

In the seven years since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada released its final report and 94 Calls to Action, Canadians have been tasked with implementing the necessary change. But what does reconciliation actually mean for the heritage sector? In this focused discussion, together we’ll consider the work of reconciliation by discussing the impacts on the sector and practical ways we can transform heritage work together.
Presenter: Miranda Jimmy
Miranda Jimmy is a passionate Edmontonian and member of Thunderchild First Nation. She is a community connector and fierce defender of truth. Miranda is committed to the spirit and intent of the treaty relationship and finds ways each day to demonstrate to others what this looks like.

North Toronto Historical Society (Virtual): Dining in Babylon: Toronto's Lost Restaurants
2022-03-30 19:30 | online
North Toronto resident James Thompson will be sharing his research into late great restaurants from Toronto’s past. James is a fifth generation member of the Austin family who built the Spadina House property in 1866.

REGISTER NOW – SPACE LIMITED
Email membership@northtorontohistoricalsociety.org and we will send you an invitation with details. You can join us on Zoom by internet or phone.

Brad Woods - Tell Good Stories!
2022-04-02 11:00 - 12:00 | Thunder Bay Museum, 425 Donald St E., Thunder Bay, Ontario, P7E 5V1, Canada
Stories entertain and inform us, but they also help us understand who we are, where we come from and where we are going, so it would only make sense that we should want to tell good stories. Join professional Storyteller Brad Woods to discuss and discover what makes a good story and how to tell it. Through the Art of Storytelling, Brad will use traditional, original and personal stories to provide an opportunity for you to engage, to interact and to learn, but mostly to just sit back, relax and listen.
Bio / Press Release
Video: https://youtu.be/3gmJHvph_-4
Brad Woods has told stories at festivals, theatres, conferences, prisons, churches and pubs all over North America and the UK. He tells traditional tales, literary classics and personal stories. His stories have been featured in a variety of broadcasts and publications including CBC Radio 1, the Globe and Mail and Canadian Running Magazine. Brad has told to all ages and in every type of venue imaginable. He is the recipient of the Alice Kane Award for Storytelling and used it to travel to Lesotho (Southern Africa) to tell, trade and collect stories on behalf of Bracelet of Hope.
“Hilarious, suspenseful – a masterful story teller. “
Ins Choi, Creator-Kim’s Convenience
“Brad Woods is a master storyteller. With wit and wisdom, humour and heart, Brad skillfully weaves tales that leave his audience laughing and thinking, often at the same time.”
Terry Fallis, Novelist – Two Time Leacock Award Winner
“Brad Woods in an engaging and creative storyteller. He has a mix of personal and traditional stories and some that interweave the real and the fabulous.”
Dan Yashinsky, Founder – Toronto Storytelling Festival

The Hanley Institute Presents Macphail
2022-04-02 14:00 | The Hanley Institute, 13 Spring St., Flesherton, Ontario, N0C 1E0, Canada
Please join us (at 13 Spring St. Flesherton) April 2, 2022, for a celebration of Agnes Macphail.

Doors open at 2 p.m.
Small performance starts 2:30 p.m. courtesy of the Hanley Theatre Club
Cake and refreshments to follow

Agnes Campbell MacPhail became the first woman elected to Canada’s House of Commons, on December 6th, 1921, and served as a Member of Parliament from 1921 to 1940. She is the definition of a badass woman, who worked hard for the good of the people. A real mentor to look up to. We are pleased to invite the community to our celebration of Agnes Macphail. This project has been made possible by the Government of Canada.

Myseum of Toronto: Confinement and Contagion: Find Your Voice – Writing Workshop
2022-04-03 13:30 - 16:00 | Neilson Park Creative Centre, 56 Neilson Drive, Toronto, Ontario, M9C 1V8, Canada
Find Your Voice is a writing workshop facilitated by writers Kamilah Haywood and G.L. Glowz. Participants will be guided through the creative writing process to support their individual healing practices and to compose a writing piece that can be included in their portfolios. Participants will have the opportunity to share their work with peers within this private workshop and can offer constructive and uplifting insight about each other’s work to encourage growth in their creative journeys. Within this safe space, participants will bond and create in honour of their lived experience. Newly released inmates requiring programming hours are encouraged to sign up. Priority will be given to previously-convicted artists, entertainers and/or writers.

Myseum of Toronto: Confinement and Contagion: Opening Reception
2022-04-05 18:30 - 21:00 | Neilson Park Creative Centre, 56 Neilson Drive, Toronto, Ontario, M9C 1V8, Canada
Join us at Neilson Park Creative Centre on Tuesday, April 5th, 2022 at 6:30PM for the opening of Confinement and Contagion: COVID-19 and Health in the Prison System. The exhibition features eight multidisciplinary artists who have been impacted by incarceration. The reception will have live performances and visitors will have the opportunity to purchase works by featured artists. The reception will include:

Live drawings by visual artist Chad Potvin;
Books available for sale by author Kamilah Haywood;
Live poetry reading by artist and poet Susana Meza;
Refreshments, pending COVID-19 provincial guidelines.

Guelph Historical Society (Virtual): Guelph in Postcards
2022-04-05 19:30 | online
Guest Speaker: Cameron Shelley
Reviewing information on the Blacksmith’s fountain, Cameron discovered a connection between the fountain and the McCrae family. Please join us to find out what Cameron has discovered.
FORMAT: ZOOM
We will email you a link to the Zoom meeting prior to the event.

Myseum of Toronto (In-Person and Virtual): Etobicoke Stories of Significance: Artist Talk – Part 1
2022-04-06 18:00 - 20:00 | Storefront Gallery at Arts Etobicoke, 4893a Dundas St W, Etobicoke, Ontario, M9A 1B2, Canada
Stories of Significance: Etobicoke through immigrants’ perspective
Join us for an intimate conversation exploring the history and lived experiences of newcomers and their journey of making and calling Etobicoke home with Khadija Aziz, Nicolas Sanchez, and Khaula Mazhar. Each artist will share their experiences working on this project – identifying sites, exploring digital mediums and telling stories of significance from the perspective of immigrants in relation to changing demographics and history.
This event will be held in person at the Storefront Gallery at Arts Etobicoke, as well as livestreamed online. When registering, please select either an “in-person” or “livestream” ticket, based on how you would like to attend this event.

UEL Association of Canada - Governor Simcoe Branch (Virtual): April 2022 Meeting
2022-04-06 19:30 | online
“My Notorious Ancestors: The Doan Gang” — Presentation by Janet Hodgkins
A band of brothers, known as the Doan Gang, became notorious in Pennsylvania during the American Revolution. They robbed wealthy Patriots, scouted for the British forces, rescued prisoners of war from their jail cells, stole horses to equip the British cavalry, spied, and generally created mayhem throughout the state and beyond. By the end of the war, they were wanted dead or alive. Four of the six did die while two escaped to Upper Canada where they lived in peace until old age. One of the gang, Aaron Doan, was my 4th great-grandfather and my first Loyalist ancestor.
Janet Hodgkins, UE, is proud to be descended from seven United Empire Loyalists. She belongs to the Colonel John Butler (Niagara) Branch where she is a Director and the Programme Chair. She is also the long-time president of the Wainfleet Historical Society. Janet grew up in Wainfleet Township where she and her husband, David Fowler, raised their two sons and where they still reside on part of her grandparents’ farm.

National Trust for Canada (Virtual): Historic Places Day 2022: Get Involved and Boost Awareness for Your Historic Places – Session #1
2022-04-07 12:15 - 13:00 | online
FREE
Find out how Canada Historic Places Days can boost attendance and awareness of your historic places. Plan for your 2022 summer season by joining us to hear the latest about Canada Historic Places Days 2022 running from July 8-31, 2022. Find out the latest about this visitation/awareness program that reaches 2 million Canadians, now in its sixth year.

Archives of Ontario Talk (Virtual): Métis Artist Tracey-Mae Chambers’ Work of Hope and Healing
2022-04-07 13:00 | online
It’s Archives Awareness Week in Ontario!
Join the Archives of Ontario as they welcome Métis artist Tracey-Mae Chambers for a live, virtual event. This artist talk will take place from noon to 1pm EST on Thursday, April 7. Register at www.eventbrite.ca/e/virtual-talk-with-tracey-mae-chambers-tickets-272953600567.
Chambers created a site-specific artwork at the Archives of Ontario on February 28, 2022. The piece is part of Chambers’ larger #hopeandhealingcanada project. Seeking to reconnect people and their environments in the face of the pandemic, the artist has worked with dozens of cultural and public institutions nationwide—and the Archives of Ontario is the first provincial archives to take part. Each of Tracey-Mae Chambers’ installations is unique. Created out of countless metres of fibrous red yarn, the works function as a technology of decolonization, which Chambers presents as a step towards reconciliation. By placing her installations in and on venues that traditionally represent colonial worldviews, Chambers breaches the boundaries of spaces historically closed to Indigenous perspectives.
You can view Chambers’ artwork until April 11, 2022 at the Archives of Ontario, located at 134 Ian MacDonald Blvd. on York University’s Keele Campus in Toronto. From outside the building, you can also view the installation via the window on the south side of the building, across from York University subway station.

Middlesex Centre Archives Heritage Fair 2022
2022-04-09 10:00 - 16:00 | Delaware Commuity Centre, 2652 Gideon Dr., Delaware, Ontario, N0L 1E0, Canada

CFHA Lecture Series (Virtual): Quakerism in the Atlantic World
2022-04-09 12:00 - 13:00, 2022-04-23 12:00 - 13:00 | online
CFHA’s biweekly winter and spring lecture series based on Quakerism in the Atlantic World, 1690-1830
The Canadian Friends Historical Association is excited to announce our lecture series by the chapter authors of Quakerism in the Atlantic World, 1690-1830 (Penn State University Press, 2021.
The virtual series begins Saturday, January 15th, and will run every second Saturday. All lectures will take place at 0900 Pacific / 1200 Eastern / 1700 UK on Zoom. Following the chapters of the volume, each short lecture will run for thirty minutes and include a question and answer period at the end.
Quakerism in the Atlantic World is the third volume in Penn State University Press’s New History of Quakerism series. Catered towards a broad readership, this book examines experiences and facets of Quakerism in the long eighteenth century.
January 15 — Robynne Rogers Healey and Sydney Harker, “A Complex Faith: Strategies of Marriage, Family and Community among Upper Canadian Quakers.”
January 29 — Betsy Cazden, “Within the Bounds of their Circumstances:” The Testimony of Inequality among Eighteenth Century New England Friends.
February 12 — Andrew Fincham, “Friendly Advice: The Making and Shaping of Quaker Discipline.”
February 26 — Emma Lapsansky-Werner, “Family, Unity, and Identity-Formation: Eighteenth-Century Quaker Community-Building.”
March 12 — Richard C. Allen, “Industrial Development and Community Responsibility: The Harford Family and South Wales, c.1768-1842.”
March 26 — Geoffrey Plank, “Quakers, Indigenous Americans, and the Landscape of Peace.”
April 9 — Jon Mitchell, “Three Methods of Quaker Worship in Eighteenth-Century Quakerism.”
April 23 — Erin Bell, “Mrs Weaver being a Quaker, would not swear”: Representations of Quakers and Crime in the Metropolis, c.1696-1815.
May 7 — Rosalind Johnson, “Quakers and Marriage Legislation in England in the Long Eighteenth Century.”
May 28 — Robynne Rogers Healey and Erica Canela, “Our dear Friend has departed this life”: Testimony Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century.
The lectures are free, but you must register to attend. You may register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cfha-lecture-series-quakerism-in-the-atlantic-world-tickets-241366051357

Norfolk Historical Society Speaker Series: David Beasley, "The Fenian Invasion of Canada 1866"
2022-04-09 14:00 | Norfolk Golf and Country Club, 200 Argyle St., Simcoe, Ontario, N3Y 1V9, Canada
Local author and historian David Beasley will present The Fenian Invasion of Canada 1866, based on his novel Spiral.
Saturday April 9th, 2022 at 2:00 pm at the Norfolk Golf and Country Club, Simcoe
Cash bar available. *COVID Mask mandates may still be in effect.*
Free admission, but registration required.
Contact: ms.grantodegaard@gmail.com

Thunder Bay Museum Opening Reception: “And in 1948, I came to Canada”: The Holocaust in Six Dates
2022-04-11 19:00 | Thunder Bay Museum, 425 Donald St E., Thunder Bay, Ontario, P7E 5V1, Canada
Join the Thunder Bay Museum for a reception celebrating the opening of the travelling exhibition, “And in 1948, I came to Canada”: The Holocaust in Six Dates raises awareness about the genocide of the Jews by presenting its history and reflecting on the impacts of racism and discrimination in our society. It commemorates the victims of the Holocaust and honours the survivors who made Canada their new home.
Official remarks from 7:15 to 8:15 PM

Rabbi David Mivasair – Shaarey Shomayim Synagogue, Thunder Bay
Dr. Daniel Hannah – President, Shaarey Shomayim Synagogue
Michael deJong – Curator/Archivist, Thunder Bay Museum

Free Museum Admission during the event. Refreshments will be available.

Myseum of Toronto: Confinement and Contagion: Health and Harm Reduction Inside of Canadian Prisons – Informational Workshop
2022-04-12 18:30 - 21:00 | Neilson Park Creative Centre, 56 Neilson Drive, Toronto, Ontario, M9C 1V8, Canada
This workshop, led by Sena Hussain and Prisoners with HIV/AIDS Support Action Network (PASAN), will explore the impacts of unequal access to health care and harm reduction measures that prisoners face across Turtle Island. We will also look at how COVID-19 has stressed the carceral system in unprecedented ways and how this pandemic has manifested in creating great harm to people inside. A discussion of an article in Cell Count, a health and harm reduction resource for prisoners, will then take place to look at the experiences and mindset of someone who has been carrying out a life sentence to create further understanding of the prison experience. Participants will discuss ways that people on the outside can be in solidarity with those fighting for their rights on the inside.

Museum of Lennox and Addington (Virtual): The Rural Diary Archive: Transcribing Daily Life in Eastern Ontario
2022-04-12 19:00 | online
The Rural Diary Archive website (https://ruraldiaries.lib.uoguelph.ca/) brings together the work of over 200 diarists (1820-1960) across Ontario. It encourages users to learn about the authors, easily search fully transcribed diaries in the collection and help transcribe handwritten ones. This presentation explores several Eastern Ontario diaries in the collection, the nature of diary writing, and the ways one can use diaries for your own research. Dr. Catherine Wilson will share some examples from her forthcoming book Being Neighbours: Cooperative Work and Rural Culture, 1830-1960.
Catharine’s interest in rural and family history began while growing up in Grenville County where her Loyalist and Irish ancestors settled. To celebrate 1967, her parents built a log cabin in their basement. Inspired by the family heirlooms displayed there, she’s been fascinated with the history of daily life ever since. Much of her scholarship has included genealogical research and is recognized for employing under-utilized sources such as diaries and innovative methods that revise historical interpretations. Her early work focused on Irish immigration, pioneer settlement and farm tenancy. Her current SSHRC-funded project explores reciprocal work bees (barn raising, quilting, and threshing bees, etc.) using Ontario farm diaries. She explores the creation, maintenance and definition of neighborhood and its practical workings. She teaches Canadian History, Social History, and Rural History to undergraduates and graduates at the University of Guelph. She is also the Redelmeier Professor in Rural History, Coordinator of the speakers’ series The Rural History Roundtable, Founder and Director of the Rural Diary Archive website, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

National Trust for Canada (Virtual): Heritage Conservation and Real Estate Economics: Unpacking Factors Affecting Heritage Property Investment
2022-04-13 12:00 - 13:00 | online
FREE

The decision by property owners to retain and reuse, or to demolish heritage buildings, doesn’t happen in a vacuum. This webinar will build your understanding of the economics of heritage conservation, unpacking how built heritage interacts with forces of supply and demand and the real estate marketplace.
Presenter: Neil R. Lovitt – B.CD., DULE, LPP, MCIP, CPT (Vice President, Planning & Economic Intelligence, Turner Drake & Partners Ltd., Halifax, NS)
Neil Lovitt is Vice President of Turner Drake’s Planning Division and Economic Intelligence Unit. In this role, Neil leads a team of professionals that marry expertise in real estate economics and market intelligence with community planning and real estate development projects. Through various assignments he has experience gathering and analyzing socio-economic, housing need, and real estate market data, reviewing and drafting planning policy and regulation, and evaluating the financial feasibility of development proposals – including those which incorporate affordability, heritage conservation, and other policy goals.
Neil holds a Bachelor of Community Design degree from Dalhousie University, a Diploma in Urban Land Economics from the University of British Columbia, and a Diploma in GIS & Urban Planning from Fanshawe College. He is a Professional Planner and a Certified Planning Technician, with membership in the Canadian Institute of Planners, and the Canadian Association of Certified Planning Technicians. Neil is also an adjunct faculty member of the Dalhousie School of Planning where he teaches Land Development Economics to planning students in both the Bachelor and Master level programs.

Myseum (Virtual): Resistance. Resilience. Revolution.: Artist Talk
2022-04-14 18:00 - 19:30 | online
Join the exhibiting artists of Resistance. Resilience. Revolution. – Gloria C. Swain, Lillian Allen, Mosa NcNeilly, and Janice Reid – for a roundtable conversation where they share their experiences working and living as artists and active members of the Black community in Toronto. This talk will be moderated by Raven Spiratos
Livestreamed from Black Artists’ Network in Dialogue (BAND Gallery), this conversation highlights contributions of older Black women to benefit a ‘new generation’ of Black community artists, activists, allies, historians and community-at-large.
Resistance. Resilience. Revolution. is an exhibition weaving the narratives of radical older Black women, highlighting and resisting the way this group is often excluded and unacknowledged. Each artist’s story unfolds through their various artforms (photography, poetry, visual art, mixed media, interdisciplinary artforms), to translate the struggles of aging and staying relevant in a youth-obsessed world.

CANCELLED: Friends of the Finnish Labour Temple (In-Person and Virtual): News from the Giant
2022-04-14 19:30 | PACI Auditoritum, 3rd Floor, 401 Red River Rd., Thunder Bay, Ontario, P7B 1B4, Canada
EVENT CANCELLED: NEWS FROM THE GIANT
We regret to inform you that our News From The Giant event has been cancelled.
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the event which was scheduled for 14 April 2022 must be rescheduled as some key presenters are unable to attend.
Please stay tuned for an update later this month.

The Lakehead University, Department of History and the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities welcome the public to attend “News From the Giant,” a presentation on the use of locally produced archival film footage to tell stories of the Lakehead.
Presenters, Michel Beaulieu, Nathan Hatton, Kelly Saxberg and Ron Harpelle will discuss Public History and take participants back to the early days of local television news at the Lakehead. The event includes the launch of “News from the Giant,” a series of short newsreels made with nightly news footage from the late 50s and early 60s. Find out more about what was going on back then and how this archival footage will soon be made available to researchers and the public.
This event is both in-person and online. Seating in PACI may be restricted due to evolving COVID-19 protocols, but we will provide updates as necessary to ensure a safe environment. Those wishing to attend virtually are asked to visit http://www.finnishlabourtemple.com where a link to a livestream of the event will be available. Doors open at 7 pm.
For more information, contact Dr. Ron Harpelle, harpelle@lakeheadu.ca.

Myseum: Black Creek Walks, Talks & Dances: Walking Tour 1
2022-04-16 14:00 - 16:00 | Derrydowns Park, 227 Derrydown Rd., North York, Ontario, M3J 1S2, Canada
The Living Creek: an immersive dance experience taking place along Black Creek in our community. Centred around the theme of animism and art, M-DO/KathakToronto instructor Joanna de Souza, spoken word poet Ayesha Khan, and a troupe of talented Kathakas will teach those joining this walk about the ancient Goddess Saraswati. We’ll share tales of this goddess of art, wisdom and nature who is also the namesake of a long-disappeared river in India. Honouring the feminine and the sacredness of water, the walk will culminate in a multicultural moon ceremony, performed under the April full moon around a sacred fire.
Meeting point: Derrydowns Park parking lot
Tour ends at Driftwood Park at 4pm.

Myseum: Black Creek Walks, Talks & Dances – Workshop & Walking Tour 2
2022-04-17 14:00 - 17:00 | Southeast Corner of Jane and Steeles West, Steeles Ave. W & Jane St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Living from the Land & Water: a food-themed walk exploring connections between growing food, land, water and our own health. We’ll visit community gardens and Black Creek Community Farm, and speak to leaders about their food-growing and developing food sovereignty with culturally appropriate foods for all. The tour will end at the site of the 15th-century Wendat longhouse village beside Black Creek where their large fields grew the “Three Sisters” of corn, beans and squash to support their community, asking what can we learn about supporting our community’s food needs today.
Meeting point: South-East corner of Jane and Steeles W.
Tour ends at Driftwood Park at 5pm.

Myseum of Toronto: Etobicoke Stories of Significance: Exhibit Reception
2022-04-20 18:00 - 20:00 | Storefront Gallery at Arts Etobicoke, 4893a Dundas St W, Etobicoke, Ontario, M9A 1B2, Canada
An exhibition launch, with presentations from Indigenous and newcomer artists looking deeper into the histories and ideas behind their projects. Join us for the exhibition reception event to meet the artists and the community.

Public Virtual Tour of the Former Mohawk Institute
2022-04-20 19:00 | online
The Woodland Cultural Centre presents a screening of the Mohawk Institute Residential School. Join us every third Wednesday of the month at 7pm and help support virtual programming at the Woodland Cultural Centre with your donation.
The virtual tour video was created with local production company Thru the Reddoor, and it follows the guide, Lorrie Gallant, as she gives a tour of the former Mohawk Institute Indian Residential School. During the video Lorrie provides the history of the institution over its 140 year history. Viewers will get to see the different rooms in the school, from the girls’ and boys’ dormitories, the cafeteria, laundry room, and other rooms throughout the building, as well as hear interviews from five Survivors of the Mohawk Institute.
Tickets – $10 donation to educational programming at the Woodland Cultural Centre
Virtual Tour Length – 45 Minutes
Q&A Debrief – 45 Minutes

Friends of the South Grey Museum Speaker Series 2022: Aly Boltman, "Erasing Erasure: The Intersection of History and Social Justice at Potter’s Field"
2022-04-20 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.

Join local history enthusiast Aly Boltman to hear about an unlikely, three-year journey that began with a dead-of-winter, candle-lit cemetery tour and ended with an award-winning, community-supported social justice project that unearthed the histories and dignity of more than 1,000 citizens all but forgotten in Owen Sound’s Greenwood Cemetery.
Aly has been living in Grey County for the past 19 years where she has served a number of professional roles in the arts and philanthropy sectors. Her writing has been featured in the Globe & Mail, Owen Sound Sun Times, The Architectural Conservancy of Ontario, the Ontario Museum Association and other publications. Ms. Boltman was recently the recipient of the YMCA’s Peace Medallion for her work leading the Potter’s Field Memorial Steering Committee, resulting in the new Potter’s Field Memorial at Greenwood Cemetery in Owen Sound, Ontario.

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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North York Historical Society April 2022 Meeting (Virtual): Yonge Street in the Rear View Mirror – Encore
2022-04-20 19:00 - 21:00 | online
The NYHS is pleased to present “Yonge Street in the Rear View Mirror – Encore.”
In March 2021, NYHS presented Marla Weingarten with ‘Yonge Street in the Rear-view Mirror’, which proved to be the most popular program in many years. This year as we celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the formation of North York, we are returning to Yonge Street and Marla Weingarten, for an encore presentation of the history of Yonge Street in North York.
Yonge Street is the most iconic street in Canada. This famous artery has weaved a tapestry of history along its path for over 200 years. The North York Historical Society is pleased to bring you “Yonge Street in the Rear View Mirror – Encore.” A journey along the path from dirt to gravel, from horses to cars, to discover the many hidden stories of Yonge Street’s past and how life along this thoroughfare shaped North York through the years, transforming it to the township, borough, city and part of the megacity of Toronto that it is today.
Join Zoom Meeting
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Thunder Bay Museum Lecture (Virtual): Weather Bomb: Life and Death on the Great Lakes
2022-04-21 19:30 | online
Description:
Bruce Kemp is an internationally known, award-winning writer and photographer. He has covered everything from fine dining in Europe to the America’s Cup and voyages through the Northwest Passage. He has also been the editor of Travel A La Carte, Sailing Canada and Sail Ontario. His previous books include: The Complete Travel Writer, the Ports Cruising Guide to Lake Erie and Lake St. Clair, the 2006 update to the Ports Cruising Guide to the Rideau Canal, the recent Weather Bomb 1913: Life and Death on the Great Lakes and the novel: The Fugitive’s Son. Bruce taught his craft for more than twenty years starting at Lambton College, George Brown College, Okanagan College and the Centre for Arts and Technology (Okanagan). He is currently working on a documentary project about the history of navigation and is Chief Judge for the Travel Media Association of Canada’s annual national travel photo competition.
About the Book:
In the dark hours of November 9, 1913, death screamed across the Great Lakes in the guise of a rare white hurricane. The Storm continued to brutalize the region for most of the following week. It left in its wake crippled cities, paralyzed communications, 12 lost freighters, the corpses of more than 250 men and women, and a mystery that remains unsolved to this day. Weather Bomb 1913 is an accurate accounting of the causes and costs of the Storm as told by the few surviving witnesses who had a living memory of the carnage, courtroom testimony and newspaper reports of the day. Now modern ship captains and weather scientists contribute their expertise to help explain and define this horrendous “extra-tropical cyclone” and Bruce Kemp adds his skills as a writer to bring to life one of the most compelling dramas of the tragedy.
Speaker Bio:
Over the span of more than thirty years, Bruce’s writing and photography have earned him numerous awards from his peers. In 1987 he was selected to write the Canadian entry in the official America’s Cup Defence Program for the America’s Cup held in Perth, Australia, that year. His first national nomination came in 1987 when he was nominated as Nabisco Food Writer of the Year (Humour). In 1991 he was awarded the Lake Ontario Racing Council’s top honour for Best Colour and Composition in a sailing photo, as well as the Best Sailing Photo. In 2003 he won the Travel Media Association of Canada/Starwood Hotel’s Best Travel (People Photo – national). 2005 saw him win the Metroland In-House Design and Layout Award. Then 2006 was a very good year for him as he won the Travel Media Association of Canada’s Best People Photo once again plus the Ontario Tourism Marketing Partnership Award for Best Travel Journalism and he capped the year off by taking home the prestigious international award of Caribbean Travel Photographer of the Year for his work on Trinidad’s annual Carnival. In 2011 he was once again on the podium to accept the Travel Media Association’s national award for Best Travel Photo (People), a feat which he repeated in 2014 along with a second place in family feature writing, and an Outstanding Achievement Award for Best Story About Travel In Canada.
Please click the link below to join the webinar:
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Webinar ID: 969 9300 0579

Toronto Railway Museum Online Lecture: The Missing Millionaire - The Ambrose Small Saga
2022-04-21 20:00 - 21:30 | online
On April 21, join the Toronto Railway Museum and Katie Daubs for an online lecture about the Small Mystery. Daubs will talk about the stranger-than-fiction characters in the Ambrose Small saga, and the development of Toronto as the drama around his disappearance unfolded. The lecture will bring you back to December 1919 and the “extraordinary unsolved mystery”.
At that time, the railway was central to Small’s business, as traveling shows of the era sent all of their actors, props, and scenery by rail. It was expensive for theatre companies, and Daubs will explain how Small used that to his advantage as he built a cross-Ontario network of theatres, connected by rail.
Tickets for this event are free, although registration is required. Click here to register.
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.

Myseum of Toronto: The Quiet Immigrant: Opening and Exhibit Launch
2022-04-23 14:00 | Joseph D. Carrier Art Gallery, The Columbus Centre, 901 Lawrence Ave W., North York, Ontario, M6B 4E7, Canada
Join us for the opening of The Quiet Immigrant Project! Our Opening Day includes the full launch of our multimedia legacy exhibit and the InHERitance Art Exhibit, where attendees will have the opportunity to walk through and participate in both the exhibit and gallery. Filled with interactive and hands-on stations, you will find opportunity for personal artistic expression through participation. At the exhibit launch, you will find yourself immersed in culture and reminiscent of experience by way of symbolic and touching music, presented in both English and Italian. Finally, a beautiful performance – a commissioned theatre piece – that explores and represents the stories of The Quiet Immigrant. A promising afternoon with food and drink, and a room filled with love, laughter, and stories to share.
