Events Calendar

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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!

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

You are invited to join the Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society as we enjoy stories presented by Brad Woods. 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...

13th Annual Special Event Monarch Tagging and Release By Executive Member Donald A. Davis (Toronto, Ontario)

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...