Events Calendar

Join J. Patrick Boyer who will speak about his book Putting Muskoka on the Map / From Indigenous Wayfinding to Satellite Imaging.

FREE In June, the Honourable Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Environment and Climate Change and Minister responsible for Parks Canada, tabled Bill C-23 proposing legislation dedicated to the designation of places of national significance or national interest, and protection of federally-owned historic places. The Bill passed first reading on June 7. Following a Gathering earlier this...

Brian Martin, author of the new book “From Underground Railroad to Rebel Refuge: Canada and the Civil War”, will speak about his latest history book project published by ECW Press.

The talk will discuss the work of young women, known as Farmerettes, who took over farm labour when the young men went off to fight in the Second World War. Doors open at 7:00 p.m. and the lecture will begin at 7:30 p.m.

The OHS Board of Directors is pleased to announce that the 134th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Ontario Historical Society will be hosted virtually on Wednesday November 2, 2022, at 7:00 PM EST. Please note that the AGM is for OHS members only and not open to the public. The meeting will be conducted...

“The English Language Goes To War” — Presentation by Garry Toffoli In-person and on Zoom; Register here to attend virtually: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYvceigpz8uG9E3mvq66X0s0yuLNr-fwge8 The meeting will take place in the downstairs meeting room at St. David's Church, 49 Donlands (please note, NOT St. David's Towers at 51 Donlands). If you plan to attend in person, RSVP to Anne Neuman at anneneuman@hotmail.com or 905-888-1278. This...

Grant Maltman, the Curator of the Banting House National Historic Site of Canada in London, Ontario, will be speaking on the subject of Sir Frederick Banting: The Man You Thought You Knew. Most of us know of Sir Frederick Banting (1895-1941) as the co-discoverer of insulin, but there is much more to his story! Frederick...

Hello Taste Lovers, It's the biggest night in Canadian cookbooks, and we want you to join in on the excitement! ⁠ The Taste Canada Awards are back live and in person and this year, we're not only honouring and highlighting the best culinary writers in the country, we're also celebrating 25 years of doing so! ⁠The Details:...

Presented by Valerie Mackie This year has marked the 200 + 1 anniversary of the founding of Bolton. As the celebrations come to a close, Valerie will summarize a few of the year's events, share what is known about George Bolton and use photos from the Society's collection to illustrate how the village evolved during...

The Ontario Black History Society is seeking interested, passionate, and committed community members to volunteer on the OBHS Board of Directors. Vacant positions include Secretary and Members-At-Large. If you are interested in joining the OBHS’s Board of Directors, this information session is for you! For more information, email admin@blackhistorysociety.ca.

We are thrilled to announce the speakers and dates for the Town of York Historical Society's "Annual Author Series"! Presentations will begin promptly at 7pm and will be followed by a short question and answer period. This year, you have the option between joining us via Zoom or in-person. About this event: Elizabeth Gillian Muir...

The Port Maitland, “On the Grand” Historical Association will be holding its Annual General Meeting on November 10, 2022 at 7:00 p.m. at Dunnville Library, Disher Room. Our guest speaker will be Ian Kerr-Wilson the former Manager of Heritage Resources Management at the City of Hamilton. Ian coordinated the Hamilton and Scourge Historic Site for...

Remembrance Day services 10:30-11:30 a.m. at the Cenotaph (beside Newcastle Community Hall). Historical Room open 9:30-noon with special displays.

Dignam Gallery Signature Shows Presents A Women’s Art Association Scholarship Fundraiser D*O*U*B*L*E*  G*I*F*T*E*D FEATURING ARTISTS WHO EXCEL IN DUAL ART FORMS  ART EXHIBITION: NOVEMBER 2-15, 2022  GALA EVENT: NOVEMBER 11, 2022, 6:30-9 PM $40 PER PERSON, INCLUDES BUFFET SUPPER CLICK HERE TO REGISTER ON EVENTBRITE AND TOP-NOTCH ENTERTAINERS: JAZZ, ROCK, AND REGGAE SINGERS & MUSICIANS CLASSICAL PIANIST POETRY...

You are invited the Thunder Bay Museum Holiday Market! When: November 12, 2022 from 10:00 am - 5:00 pm Where: The Thunder Bay Museum @ 425 Donald Street East, Thunder Bay, ON The Thunder Bay Museum Holiday Market is a day to shop local, support Thunder Bay artisans and get your holiday shopping started early!...

Sheffield Park is pleased to invite everyone to a Tribute to Robert Leverty as he retires as Executive Director of the Ontario Historical Society. Robert has devoted his life to the preservation of Canadian landmarks, cemeteries and institutions and we wish to say Thank You. Bring your well wishes on Sunday, Nov. 13, 2022 to...

OUR NOVEMBER MEETING WILL BE HELD IN-PERSON. The location will be Bagnani Hall at Traill College. It is a spacious room with an HVAC system and an additional HEPA filter. A Documentary and Commentary by Sean Scally, filmmaker Sean Scally's documentary film, Playing with Fire, recounts the story of the horrific explosion of the British...

Join us at the Thunder Bay Museum on Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022 at 7:30 PM to watch some exciting recently digitized historical newsreel film with us. The Thunder Bay Museum, Friends of the Finnish Labour Temple, and ShebaFilms presents: Reel Memories of the Lakehead: News from the Giant The Reel Memories of the Lakehead project...

Guest Speaker: Ron MacIvor, Award-winning Photojournalist, Parliament Hill with UPI (1970-1980), Ottawa Citizen (1980-2007) Forty-two years as a photojournalist provided Ottawa’s Rod MacIvor with the opportunity to be an up-close witness to decades of history in the making. Rod talks about his journey as a photographer, how it all started at the Ottawa Ex…and some...

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...

Please contact kingstonhs@gmail.com if you want the link to the Zoom presentation.

Before he cast his lot with a group of like-minded Toronto artists, Alexander Young (A.Y.) Jackson was an artist with a growing international reputation, as well as a soldier and a war artist. In this lecture, award-winning author Douglas Hunter will give a captivating account of the many wars Jackson fought, on and off the...

Join us for a talk and panel discussion with award-winning placemaker and thought leader/city builder Jay Pitter. Date: November 16, 2022 at 7 p.m. (doors open at 6:30 p.m.) Location: Winter Garden Theatre, 189 Yonge Street, Toronto, Ontario What is placemaking? Placemaking is an inclusive, community-based approach to public space design, activation/programming and policy. The...

The mushrooming fix-up business is the largest component of Canada’s largest industry, construction. In Ontario, it pumps tens of billions of dollars annually into our GDP. And one in every eight Ontario buildings was constructed before World War II. But if it is so economically vital, Marc Denhez asks, why is it still so hard...

Speaker: Ward 1 councilor Stephen Dasko People from all over have discovered that Mississauga South is a great place to live. New residential developments are springing up all across Clarkson, Lakeview, Lorne Park and Port Credit. In many cases, historic homes, stores and parks are being removed to make room for new homes and condos,...

Rick Barrett: History of the OFD ​​ Rick Barrett is a retired Captain with the Oakville Fire Department. His career ran from April 1976 until retirement in May 2004. Rick spent his career working at the different stations situated throughout Oakville, finishing as Captain on Ladder 232. For one year, Rick was the first Public...

Robert Burley will discuss his work exploring landscapes where the urban and the natural worlds meet. This will include an overview of two recent book projects (An Enduring Wilderness ECW 2017 & Accidental Wilderness 2020) and a discussion of new work-in-progress. His photographs of the visual landscape and its concentration on the relationship between nature...

Award-winning cookbook author Naomi Duguid talks about her latest, The Miracle of Salt, a "mesmerizing mix of history and recipes." About this event Naomi Duguid, who’s taken food lovers to many corners of the globe, now invites readers and cooks on a very different journey—a deep dive into the miracle of salt and its essential...

Join us for “Building Toronto: Railways and the Development of Toronto”, an online lecture on November 17! How did the railways benefit Toronto? What ways did Toronto City Council support this type of development? Building Toronto: Railways and the Development of Toronto will focus on the development of railways in Toronto from a political perspective. Presenter Michael...

FREE It all begins with a Plan. Avoid the pitfall of lurching from one scheme to another and get your fundraising off to a good start. In this fundraising webinar, learn how to create your fundraising plan – from setting goals, to choosing strategies that fit your resources, establishing budgets and timelines, and building a...

Speaker: Stephen Davidson UE Based on his 2019 book Birchtown and the Black Loyalist Experience: From 1775 to the Present. Available in bookstores, richly illustrated with photos of Birchtown and the Black Loyalist Heritage Centre, this book recounts the saga of Canada's first free Black founders. Join a few minutes early at https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81576651796?pwd=ZC9BQ1VzM1Y4YVIzMm1kMk45cVpsUT09

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Please join the Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society for a lecture from George Romick on POW art.  This will be a in-person event that is free to view.  The lecture will be broadcast live via ZOOM for those who cannot attend in-person and recorded and posted to the Museum's YouTube at a later date.   CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE...

The annual general meeting (AGM) of the Mattawa Museum will be held on Thursday, November 24, 2022 at the Museum on 285 First Street beginning at 7pm. It has been both an exciting and successful year for the Museum, with a significant number of visitors, an interesting and immensely popular traditional Indigenous canoe build on site during the...

This seminar is meant for those who are considering having their DNA tested for family history research and those who have tested and aren't sure what to do with the results. Beth has tested with several companies and worked with the results for about 8 years.  She will go over what should be considered before...

NOVEMBER 24, 2022 7:30pm “The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend”, presented by Adam Shoalts, professional explorer and #1 national best-selling author. N.B. Due to copyright issues, no recording for later viewing on Youtube will happen. So plan to attend on the 24th at 7:30 PM.

The Christmas Season is upon us, and Hutchison House Museum volunteers will host their annual Christmas Market on Saturday November 26 and Sunday November 27 from 10am-12pm. Baked Goods, Jams and Jellies, Pies and more! In addition to the Empire Cheese orders, we will be offering some of our most popular items for pre-ordering as...

Join us for Christmas Through the Ages, a pop-up exhibit looking at Christmas traditions and popular decorating styles through the years. We will be holding the exhibit opening on November 26ᵗʰ between 11 am and 4 pm, during which visitors can enjoy complimentary refreshments and enter to win a door prize. The exhibit will be open from...

In addition to the Christmas Market Hutchison House volunteers will host a Snowflake Tea on Saturday November 26 and Sunday November 27 with sittings at 1pm and 2:30pm. Enjoy a light tea with Christmas treats by the Fire in the Keeping Room for $15 each. There is limited seating and pre-registration and payment is required. ...

Author Nathan Tidridge is the speaker. This is a hybrid meeting. To attend in person: 137 Queen Street, St. Paul's Anglican Church Hall, access off Montreal Street. Arrive after 12:30 pm, possibly with a bagged lunch. This will be our AGM. To join by Zoom, visit uelac.org/Kingston-Branch/ after 12:45pm, Sat Nov 26, and click the...

Featuring Pat Kelly speaking about Bruce County O.P.P. Constable Otto McClevis (1901-1971) and his enforcement experiences during prohibition. Admission is free. To register: email bchsregister@gmail.com or call 519-386-6397 (leave message)

The Christmas Season is upon us, and Hutchison House Museum volunteers will host their annual Christmas Market on Saturday November 26 and Sunday November 27 from 10am-12pm. Baked Goods, Jams and Jellies, Pies and more! In addition to the Empire Cheese orders, we will be offering some of our most popular items for pre-ordering as...

Join us on Sunday, November 27 to shop the museum store and save! Museum Store Sunday is here and with it amazing deals. Visit the store to take part in some festive activities, plus get ahead of your holiday shopping. Museum Store Sunday kicks off at 12:00pm on the Don Station platform and runs until...

In addition to the Christmas Market Hutchison House volunteers will host a Snowflake Tea on Saturday November 26 and Sunday November 27 with sittings at 1pm and 2:30pm. Enjoy a light tea with Christmas treats by the Fire in the Keeping Room for $15 each. There is limited seating and pre-registration and payment is required. ...

RHS welcomes Leslie Valpy, a heritage conservationist practitioner and Don Loucks, a Heritage Architect, to speak about their recent book, “Modest Hopes, Homes and Stories of Toronto’s workers from the 1820s to the 1920s”, which celebrates Toronto’s built heritage of row houses, semis, and cottages and the people who lived in them. Toronto’s workers’ cottages are...

Please join the Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society for a lecture from Oula Seitsonen, chair in Finnish Studies at Lakehead University, 2022‑2023. This will be a in-person event that is free to view. The lecture will be broadcast live via ZOOM for those who cannot attend in-person and recorded and posted to the Museum's YouTube at...

John Bullen, from the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, will be presenting Life Aboard a Lancaster Bomber in WWII. This presentation will take place at the Woodstock Museum, NHS. Doors open at 6:30pm and the meeting will start at 6:45pm. This is a free public meeting, all are welcome to attend.

Guest Speaker: Merv Sarazin, Band Councillor, Pikwakanagan First Nation The Ottawa Valley has been home to the proud Algonquin people for thousands of years. Long before the arrival of Europeans, the Algonquins lived, hunted trapped, fished, socialized, and traded on both sides of the Ottawa River and along its tributaries. Councillor Merv Sarazin, direct descendant of...

Once home to upscale residences and important public services, Adelaide Street's buildings later housed light industries such as publishing. There are still examples of the detached and row housing that dominated west of Yonge in the late 1800s. The financial district extends to Adelaide and the condo scene here is ever-changing as architectural historian Marta...

The Thunder Bay Museum and Age BIG invite you to be a volunteer storyteller in our legacy project “PLACES & FACES:  Gathering Older Adults’ Stories of Connecting, Belonging, Placemaking in Thunder Bay”. What is the Project? We are seeking applications from 7 older adults who want to share a story about a favourite place you sought out during...

We are thrilled to announce the speakers and dates for the Town of York Historical Society's "Annual Author Series"! Presentations will begin promptly at 7pm and will be followed by a short question and answer period. This year, you have the option between joining us via Zoom or in-person. About this event: Dr. Mark G....

Ted Barris will be a guest speaker Thursday December 1, 2022 at 7:00 pm upstairs at the Streetsville Legion Branch 139. He will be speaking on his newly published book, The Battle of the Atlantic, the longest battle of WWII and one which involved many Canadian veterans.  He says he wrote it while we were all confined by Covid. The...

Please Note: This event will be on Zoom, not in person.  It is open to the public but advance signup is required as follows: -- Click on this link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqdOqsqT4vHtyZlBpj2dSw2Jfta7kSmo0l -- Provide your name and email address on the registration page -- You will receive a confirmation email from Zoom (on our behalf) with information about joining the...

Join us during Ameliasburgh’s Christmas in the Village event and meet with a couple of our ancestors. Details to follow.

The Model Railroad Club of Toronto invites you to visit our holiday shows. We've been busy creating new scenes and architecture!   Inspired by the Central Ontario Railway, MRCT captures some of the flavour of Central Ontario Railway on our layout through industries and natural features, and by naming passenger cars after towns along the...

Friends of the South Grey Museum was incorporated by affiliation with the Ontario Historical Society in 2013. Join the Friends of the South Grey Museum as we pay homage to Agnes Campbell Macphail — the Lady from Grey —on Saturday evening, December 3, 2022, at Annesley United Church, Markdale. Doors open at 6:30 pm: program...

The Model Railroad Club of Toronto invites you to visit our holiday shows. We've been busy creating new scenes and architecture!   Inspired by the Central Ontario Railway, MRCT captures some of the flavour of Central Ontario Railway on our layout through industries and natural features, and by naming passenger cars after towns along the...

7 fantastic speakers from across Canada will discuss their favourite winter holiday foods & festivities and the traditions they celebrate. About this event Returning for a second year, this online event, taking place on subsequent Sundays in December, will surely get you feeling festive. Seven different speakers from across Canada will be discussing December food...