Events Calendar

Upcoming Events Across Ontario
  • Virtual Workshop: Baking for the Victorian Christmas Table – Plum Pudding & Mincemeat Tarts!

    online

    Historic cook Sherry Murphy demonstrates Victorian Christmas plum pudding & mincemeat tarts, with Q&A to follow. Recipe booklet included. About this Event Culinary Historians of Canada's 5th annual Baking for the Victorian Christmas Table is going digital this year! This Christmas baking workshop features CHC’s star baker and historic cook, Sherry Murphy. She’ll be demonstrating...

    $30
  • Catharine Parr Traill on Enjoying and Surviving a Canadian Winter

    online

    Catharine Parr Traill’s genteel life in England did not prepare her at all for life on the frontier in Ontario in the mid-1800s. But one of the ways she found to support her family in her new world was to write about her experience for other immigrants. Her writings both public and private deal with...

    $19.10
  • The Canadian Archaeologist Who Collected 4500 Beer Cans

    online

    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...

    $18.59