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SUMMARY:East York Historical Society Presentation: Bill Suddick "40 Years of East-end History in Editorial Cartoons"
DESCRIPTION:Members and Friends of East York Historical Society\, you are invited to attend East York Historical Society meeting on Tuesday evening\, 31st. March\, 2026.\n\nYou are all encouraged to attend this meeting. Bring a guest or two\, all are welcome.
URL:https://ontariohistoricalsociety.ca/event/east-york-historical-society-presentation-bill-suddick-40-years-of-east-end-history-in-editorial-cartoons/
LOCATION:S. Walter Stewart Toronto Public Library\, 170 Memorial Park Ave.\, East York\, ON\, M4J 2K5\, Canada
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SUMMARY:East York Historical Society Celebrates Black History Canada
DESCRIPTION:All are Welcome (bring as many guests as you like) to attend. Free Admission\, Free Parking\, Free Refreshments\n\nOur Special Guest Speaker Dr. Natasha Henry-Dixon on””Living Free in the Time of Slavery: The Long Family in Toronto”\n\n6:30 PM  Doors Open into John S. Ridout Auditorium\, Refreshments Served.\n7:00 PM  President Welcome and Remarks and the reading of the Land Acknowledgement\n                by Toronto Public Library [S. Walter Stewart Branch] Staff.\n7:15 PM  East York Historical Society Welcomes Presenter Dr. Natasha Henry-Dixon\n7:45 PM  includes Q & A.\n8:00 PM  East York Historical Society evening general meeting wrap sharp with Thanks.
URL:https://ontariohistoricalsociety.ca/event/east-york-historical-society-celebrates-black-history-canada/
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SUMMARY:East York Historical Society Annual General Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The East York Historical Society will be hosting the upcoming evening general meeting scheduled for Tuesday\, 25th March\, 2025. Doors Open into the John S. Ridout Auditorium at 6:30pm–all are welcome\, and please bring a friend. \nOur presenter will be Mr. Wayne Reeves on topic… \n“Before Neon\, Plastic\, and Digital: Toronto’s Early Business Signs”\nThis illustrated talk explores how commercial signs influenced the look and feel of Toronto’s streetscapes up to the year 1900. Over the course of the 19th century\, outdoor signs using wood\, paint\, and gas were joined by metal\, paper\, and electricity\, with measured restraint in the early years giving way to flamboyant abundance by the end of the Victorian era.
URL:https://ontariohistoricalsociety.ca/event/east-york-historical-society-annual-general-meeting/
LOCATION:S. Walter Stewart Toronto Public Library\, 170 Memorial Park Ave.\, East York\, ON\, M4J 2K5\, Canada
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SUMMARY:East York Historical Society (Virtual): Celebrating Black History Canada
DESCRIPTION:OPENING SPEAKER: SHEILA WHITE\, Musical Director\nTopic: “My Mother’s Letters” \nToronto-born Sheila White received an environmental Urban Hero Award in 2020\, a federal Canada 150 medal in 2017 recognizing her voluntarism\, and in 2014 was the African Canadian Achievement Award winner in the Politics category for her roles as a candidate and former political adviser\, including to Mayor Mel Lastman for 13 years in North York. \nA writer\, Sheila is working on a book about her parents’ interracial marriage in Toronto in 1947. Sheila was curator of two historical exhibits\, one focused on Portia White\, her famous\, concert-singing aunt\, a collection now housed on loan at the Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia\, and the other a rare collection of memorabilia from the First World War to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the war’s end. \nSheila is Music Director at Don Heights Unitarian Congregation as well as one of its Lay Chaplains. She leads Don Heights Singers\, a weekly\, Zoom\, open community choir on Thursdays at 4 pm. Sheila can be reached at Sheila@donheights.ca. \nMAIN SPEAKER: VALERIE JEROME\, Educator and Olympic Champion\nTopic: “RUNNING AWAY FROM RACISIM” \nValerie Jerome was born in St Boniface\, Manitoba in 1944 where she lived until her family moved to North Vancouver in 1951. She graduated from North Vancouver Sr High in 1962 and began teaching in the Vancouver school system in 1964\, the same year she married. Valerie’s Bachelors of Education was completed over many years of night classes and summer school because at that time a teaching certificate could be attained after only 2 years of study. \nValerie engaged her students in many public issues that touched their lives. One such example was while at Southlands school she had her students present individual briefs at the hearings to preserve the UEL. When these lands became Pacific Spirit Park\, they learned that their voices could help shape public policy. Valerie retired from her much loved teaching career in 2001. \nDuring her retirement years\, Valerie became active in Green politics as her son\, Stuart Parker\, had become leader of the BC Green Party. She ran in seven elections – civic\, provincial and federal between 1988 and 2000 when environmental issues were not on the radar for the vast majority of Canadians. Valerie attended International Green Congresses in Sweden and Switzerland. \nValerie Jerome has spent much of her life in the athletic arena\, initially as an athlete when at age 15 she became Canadian senior women’s champion in the sprints and long jump. Valerie competed for Canada in the Olympic\, British Commonwealth and Pan American Games. For more than 30 years Valerie was a chief official for jumping events for Canadian Athletics in hundreds of meets –big and small\, and including the Olympics\, Commonwealth Games and World Championships. \nIn her capacity as a teacher she coached athletics\, volleyball\, cross country and gymnastics as well as a community coach for junior and senior track and field athletes. \nFor 15 years Valerie had the pleasure of being a volunteer for the Vancouver Writers’ Festival. And an equally keen volunteer at Ballet BC. Valerie was a founding member of the board for Vancouver Youth Theatre\, The BC Black Educators. Many lengthy volunteer hours went into the annual BC Junior Black Achievement Awards. Valerie was a very active member of the Goh Ballet Board for more than 12 years. \nSince retiring from teaching\, she has worked through the BCTF on two English language initiatives in Namibia. Valerie Jerome presently sits on the Board of Crystal Pite’s Kidd Pivot Dance company\, and Shay Kubler’s Radical Systems Dance. She has recently become a Board member of Springboard\, an international dance program for emerging choreographers and dancers based in Montreal and New York. Recently she has been appointed to the Board of The Vancouver Opera. \nOver the last 25 years Valerie has been giving Black History Month talks in public and private elementary and secondary schools as well as at community events. She has given the address to SFU Education graduates and to Sprott Shaw college Graduates. She founded the Harry Jerome Commemorative Society which worked for four years to create the statue of her late brother on the Stanley park Seawall. \nShe has a passion for birding. In 1992\, Valerie was a recipient of a Canada 125 Award\, for work to preserve the environment. Along with a small group of Kerrisdale residents she was a recipient of a Vancouver Heritage Award for their efforts to preserve trees in this city. \nAlso while living in Kerrisdale\, Valerie and her ex husband were recipients of Kerrisdale Community Centre’s Volunteers Award. (Although not yet deceased )-The parents of former athletes and students have installed a bench with Valerie’s name on it beside the statue of her brother on the Stanley Park Seawall. At her retirement another bench bearing her name had been installed- this one on the school grounds at Sir Wilfrid Laurier School at 57th and Laurel St. And in recent years Valerie was named amongst UBC’s Faculty of Education’s 100 Distinguished Graduates. \n\nPlease email eyhs@eastyork.org for information how to join this Zoom meeting.
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SUMMARY:East York Historical Society January 2020 Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Bernice Carnegie’s presentation on Celebrating Black History in Canada – Her Father\, the late Icon Herbert Carnegie\, and their legacy with small Carnegie Display. \nThe opener will be two poems written by Poet Laureate George Elliott Clarke\, read by Pat Barnett. \nCo-sponsored by Toronto Public Library.
URL:https://ontariohistoricalsociety.ca/event/east-york-historical-society-january-2020-meeting/
LOCATION:S. Walter Stewart Toronto Public Library\, 170 Memorial Park Ave.\, East York\, ON\, M4J 2K5\, Canada
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SUMMARY:East York Historical Society November 2019 Meeting and AGM
DESCRIPTION:Join us to hear Robert Leverty\, Executive Director of the Ontario Historical Society\, present on “Coming Full Circle: Lessons Learned From the History of the Grassroots Heritage Preservation Movement in Ontario.” \nCo-sponsored by Toronto Public Library.
URL:https://ontariohistoricalsociety.ca/event/east-york-historical-society-november-2019-meeting-and-agm/
LOCATION:S. Walter Stewart Toronto Public Library\, 170 Memorial Park Ave.\, East York\, ON\, M4J 2K5\, Canada
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SUMMARY:East York Historical Society October 2019 Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://ontariohistoricalsociety.ca/event/east-york-historical-society-october-2019-meeting/
LOCATION:S. Walter Stewart Toronto Public Library\, 170 Memorial Park Ave.\, East York\, ON\, M4J 2K5\, Canada
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SUMMARY:East York Historical Society September 2019 Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://ontariohistoricalsociety.ca/event/east-york-historical-society-september-2019-meeting/
LOCATION:S. Walter Stewart Toronto Public Library\, 170 Memorial Park Ave.\, East York\, ON\, M4J 2K5\, Canada
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