Events Calendar

Please join the Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society for a lecture from Lakehead University Graduate Students Christine Green and Haileigh Riddell. 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...

Elizabeth LeBlanc, Julia Grcevic and Erin Ronfeld present “Women Who Broke the Glass Forts” Presentations are free for all but registration is required.  Use ticket link below to register on Zoom. https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NNDmOB2wTRylEOPe6AVShg

“Murder & Mayhem, Settlers & Sinners, Colonists & Criminals: More Thrilling Stories from New France” — Presentation by Carol Ufford and Dawn Kelly Wednesday, March 1, at 7:30pm – on Zoom; Register here The meeting will take place in the downstairs meeting room at St. David's Church, 49 Donlands. If you plan to attend in person, RSVP to Anne...

We are pleased to announce that our speaker for March and April will be Richard Jordan. We thoroughly enjoyed Richard’s presentation to the Swansea Historical Society in November 2019 on the subject of Hurricane Hazel, and we are delighted that he has consented to return (virtually) to join us in Swansea in the coming months....

The strangest riot in Toronto history broke out in the summer of 1855, sparked by a brawl at a King Street brothel. When some rowdy clowns picked a fight with a battle-hardened crew of firefighters, they would quickly learn they’d made a terrible mistake. The circus performers found themselves facing off against Toronto’s powerful Orange...

March 6, 2023 is Toronto's 189th Birthday! Celebrate in the heart of Old Town Toronto, where the city was born. Toronto's First Post Office and the Town of York Historical Society invites you to take part in our annual commemoration of the day Toronto became a city: March 6, 1834. After two-years of meeting virtually,...

Speaker: Tyler Bridge Tyler will talk about the history of the Guelph Pipe Band from its origin to present day through first hand experience and passed on aural knowledge as well as documented records of the band and its 100 year presence in the City of Guelph and surrounding communities. Tyler will cover events that...

Linda Fritz presents "Historic Homes in Queenston" Presentations are free for all but registration is required.  Use ticket link below to register on Zoom. https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ngbKzS7VQFq-SvOqSIHzSw

The Woodland Cultural Centre presents a screening of the Mohawk Institute Residential School. 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. The virtual...

Military historian Dr. Matthew Barrett will discuss his ground-breaking use of graphic art – cartooning – to convey historical narrative and analysis. Barrett’s pictorial chronicle of events such as the battle for Hill 70 in World War I have been widely featured in the national press. We return to in-person meetings in January, now at the Kingsbridge...

Elizabeth Wyn Wood (1902-1966) became a nationally renowned professional sculptor at a time when it was extremely difficult for a woman to have a full-time career. Join us to hear Sylvia Browne tell the story of her connection with her grandmother, Elizabeth Wyn Wood, and how Wood's upbringing in Orillia and her exploration of the...

Speaker: Doreen Coyne, Richmond Hill Garden & Horticultural Society During this presentation, Doreen will give you a bit of the history of the Society and an overview of the volunteer effort that the members accomplish each year. All of which aim to educate and encourage the beautification of our community and neighbourhoods with plants, flowers,...

The most sensational trial of the mid-1850s resulted in the only hanging in Northumberland County. Dr. King poisoned his wife with arsenic in Brighton and, after the trial and hanging, was buried in the front yard of the King family farm house at Codrington – the same house where the author grew up! Here is...

If you dig a bit into most family trees you will find ancestors from across the country and around the world.  Why did they move around? Was it their choice or were they forced to move away?  Chances are that some were forced out and made refugees. What different tools can a genealogist use to...

Join the Thunder Bay Museum for a reception celebrating  Places and Faces: Gathering Older Adults' Stories of Connection, Belonging, Placemaking in Thunder Bay  the first showing of our digital stories, created in a partnership between the Thunder Bay Museum and Age BIG. This will be a chance for everyone involved in the making of the digital stories,...

Join the Woodland Cultural Centre and the Art Gallery of Hamilton on Thursday, March 23rd from 7-9 PM for the Radical Design Fashion Show. This event is showcasing Indigenous fashion designers from across Turtle Island and featuring models from the Six Nations of the Grand River Community. Organized by Woodland Cultural Centre, in partnership with...

Presented by Brian Narhi, local historian and Vice-President of the Historical Society of St. Catharines, via Zoom. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85995888820&nbsp

Want to discover your Irish and Scots-Irish ancestors? Many people believe that researching Irish ancestors is impossible because of the destruction of the Public Record Office in 1922. While many records were destroyed, others survived and large collections have come online in recent years. Join Fintan Mullan and Gillian Hunt from the Ulster Historical Foundation...

Friends of the South Grey Museum was incorporated by affiliation with the Ontario Historical Society in 2013. March is Agnes Macphail month in Grey Highlands – our time to annually pay homage to our Lady from Grey and recognize her significant place in Canadian history. This year, the Friends of the South Grey Museum, in partnership with...

Please join the Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society for a lecture from Nancy Angus, founder of Age BIG and co-coordinator of the Places and Faces project. This will be an 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...

Our March programme will be in-person, presented in collaboration with our longtime co-sponsor, Northern District Library. Author and historian Elizabeth Gillan Muir will present an illustrated talk on the influential role women had in the life of the growing city of Toronto during the nineteenth century. Based on the extensive research Dr. Muir did for her...