Saturday April 3rd, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Preregistration required at https://www.wesleyvillevillage.com/events-1 $5.00 per child (12 and under) **Something for the whole family** A pandemic version of the popular Friends of Wesleyville Village Easter Egg Hunt More information: 905-753-2196 or 905-797-2228

Presented by Lennox and Addington County Museum and Archives Genealogists know information retrieved from gravestones has a practical application to identify the deceased. However, gravestones, as a research tool, can offer up more information about your ancestors when interpreted correctly. Besides functioning as a memorial to the deceased, gravestones provide insight into nineteenth and twentieth...

Join us on Zoom for our 2021 Virtual Lecture Series! On Wednesday April 7 at 10:30 a.m. Robert J. Lake presents, "'A Front Seat Among the Playgrounds of Two Nations': Lawn Tennis in Niagara-on-the-Lake, c.1880s-1920s." Registration is required. Please visit https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_N27s3yU5TuCYiqzMpCx5dQ.

Presented by Lennox and Addington County Museum and Archives We often think of farming as a traditional occupation—something that hasn’t really changed much. But that is not and was never the case. Farmers had to react and adapt to changing conditions like climate, technology, economics, new markets and new competitors. Some farmers did more than...

A free virtual film screening hosted by the Archives of Ontario Calling All Film Buffs! As part of Archives Awareness Week, the Archives of Ontario is hosting a virtual film screening on April 8 at 8pm of staff favourites from our Sound and Moving Images vaults. We’ll be featuring documentaries, home movies, government films and...

For hundreds of years historians have glossed over how First Peoples and the earliest European explorers communicated with one another during their first meetings. How did they convey information back and forth? How effective was this process? This talk returns to seminal episodes of “first encounter” to closely examine how people in reality communicated and...

A panel discussion reflecting on the 2008-09 Tamil demonstrations, how they’ve impacted the community, and this year’s installation and exhibition. Join us for the Images of Resistance: An Archive of Action official launch event. This event will be a panel discussion reflecting on the 2008-2009 intergenerational demonstrations that mobilized Toronto’s Tamil community; a scale of...

Dr. David Maxwell, archaeologist & collector, discusses what he's learned about contemporary culture from the discarded cans of beers-past. About this Event What does our garbage say about us? As a young anthropologist and archaeologist, Dr. David Maxwell studied Mayan votive offerings and what they tell us about Mayan cultural and political history; but not...

Presented by Lennox and Addington County Museum and Archives If a picture says a thousand words, then a family photograph tells a thousand tales; and ones we want to pass on and keep for the future. Knowing the photographic processes used to create an image helps identify the era the picture was taken in, and...

Join Zoé Delguste-Cincotta, Curator of Toronto's First Post Office, for a virtual tour of of the Post Office in 1834 It is difficult for our 21st century selves to contemplate a time when handwriting was the only means of sending a thought any distance. When Toronto incorporated as a City in 1834, it was already...

In Honour of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s 95th Birthday Conducted by Royal Historian, Carolyn Harris Welcome to the Toronto Rail Museum’s 2021 Virtual Lecture Series— part of our “10th Anniversary Take Two” campaign. Join us on a journey to the past as we examine Royal Tours of Canada during the 19th century through today....

IN CONVERSATION WITH BUTTERFLY Join organizing members of Butterfly in a conversation that explores the past and present activism, advocacy and support work of the organization as presented and celebrated in the exhibition IN ADDITION: 5 YEARS+ OF GRASSROOTS POWER WITH BUTTERFLY. The second part of the event will be centred around collective participatory action...

A storytelling event to hear about the history of Care Work in Canada and listen to personal stories of migrant Care Workers. In 2019, Kwentong Bayan Collective and Caregiver Connections Education and Support Organization (CCESO) premiered their collaborative storytelling project, Re-imagining Stories of Care Work at Myseum Intersections. The event received an overwhelmingly positive response...

Presented by Lennox and Addington County Museum and Archives Explore what agents of deterioration cause damage to photographs and what can be done at home to mitigate and preserve them for the future. Proper boxing and albums, controlling the climate, keeping pollutants at bay, handling techniques, digitization and framing are all important to the longevity...

In partnership with the Hastings County Historical Society, the Belleville Public Library will be hosting another informative talk via Zoom titled "The Lost Villages of the St. Lawrence". June 26, 1959 - Queen Elizabeth officially opened the St. Lawrence Seaway, the multi-billion dollar marine shipping route. But at what cost? This is the engaging story...

Topic: The History of Local Artist Rosemary Kilbourn of the Dingle Schoolhouse Please join us for a presentation by Guest Speaker Zoë Lepiano on the work of Caledon Artist, Rosemary Kilbourn, celebrated wood engraver, stained glass artist and painter. Living and working in the Albion Hills, she reflected in her art the surroundings of her...

Guest Speaker: Dorothy Phillips, author of "Victor and Evie" Arriving in the midst of the Great War, Canada's new Governor General, Victor Cavendish, struggled to strike a new balance as Canadians, rapidly evolving from their colonial past, pushed hard for greater independence. Meanwhile, Lady Evelyn persevered with domestic matters such as ensuring propriety between her daughters...

Speaker: Bill Aird, VP of the NYHS Board WWI was followed by a rapid expansion of the city of Toronto. The growth of population north of the city limits quickly caused problems with the largely agricultural region north of the city. For a number of reasons which will become evident in this talk this led...

There's a wide variety of building types and architectural styles on this long east-west street that passes through several neighbourhoods. Learn about the many churches, schools, commercial buildings and academic structures between Yonge Street and Lansdowne Avenue. Architectural historian Marta O'Brien will cover these plus several remarkable University of Toronto buildings. REGISTER NOW! Email: membership@northtorontohistoricalsociety.org. We...