Events Calendar

Upcoming Events Across Ontario
  • Nature in Photography: Bill Bickle

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    Presented by Lennox and Addington County Museum and Archives Join local wildlife photographer Bill Bickle as he shares with you stories of local species that he has photographed. Marveling in the beauty of nature, Bill will tour us through Eastern Ontario by showing off the majestic creatures he has been able to photograph in their...

  • History of Millinery in Canada – A Show and Talk with Norma Shephard

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    Presented by Lennox and Addington County Museum and Archives Join Mobile Millinery Museum director Norma Shephard for a discussion of 20th Century Canadian Millinery Designers. Among other discoveries, learn which designer is considered by experts to have been the greatest in Canadian history and why; which designer had a reputation for making any woman look...

  • Revisiting Colonial Dinnerware with Sequoia Miller

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    Presented by Lennox and Addington County Museum and Archives A collection of ceramic tableware on view in Toronto’s Gardiner Museum depicts idealized scenes of nineteenth-century Canadian life. Manufactured in England, these objects and others like them participated in the colonial project by imagining and asserting both national and colonial identities. In this virtual program, Sequoia...

  • Little Wanderers: A Literary History of the British Home Children in Canada

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    Presented by Lennox and Addington County Museum and Archives Between 1863 and 1939 as many as 118,000 children came to Canada under a British program of child migration. These “Home Children” journeyed to Canada from the UK in search of a better life. Following the advice and help of Victorian social reformers, these little migrants...

  • Writing Family History – The Anatomy of a Legacy Family History Book – Part 2

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    Dream of creating a family history book that you can hand down to generations to come. In this presentation, learn the anatomy of a great family history book with example pages. Discover the options for creating and printing your book. Learn how to take your book from conception to completion in a reasonable amount of...