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SUMMARY:Orillia Museum of Art and History (Virtual): Mariposa Arts Theatre: 50 Years
DESCRIPTION:The Mariposa Arts Theatre Foundation (MAT) turned 50 in 2020! MAT has provided exciting and innovative theatre and film productions to our community. It has inspired and nurtured homegrown talent\, volunteers and audience members of all ages. \nJohn Chris Newton\, a 30-year member of MAT for his talk: Mariposa Arts Theatre: 50 Years. Chris will present a history of MAT\, from its humble beginnings to the present\, including references to various productions over the years. He will also share MAT’s involvement with the Orillia Opera House\, development and use of its workshop / theatre / rehearsal hall\, Film Night\, the long running “Oh Really Orillia\,” and other interesting tidbits throughout MAT’s long history.
URL:https://ontariohistoricalsociety.ca/event/orillia-museum-of-art-and-history-virtual-mariposa-arts-theatre-50-years/
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SUMMARY:Orillia Museum of Art and History (Virtual): The Ontario Fire College: Then and Now
DESCRIPTION:The Ontario Fire College (OFC) was established in 1958. For the next 63 years\, fire officers and firefighters from across Ontario came to the OFC in Gravenhurst to prepare for their roles in saving lives and property from the hazards of fire in an increasingly hostile environment. \nThousands of students from across Canada passed through its doors before it was closed in 2021 by the Ontario government \nJohn Judy Humphries\, who will take us on a visual journey of the OFC\, as it evolved to become a state-of-the-art fire training facility.
URL:https://ontariohistoricalsociety.ca/event/orillia-museum-of-art-and-history-virtual-the-ontario-fire-college-then-and-now/
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SUMMARY:Orillia Museum of Art and History (Virtual): Elizabeth Wyn Wood: Renowned Sculptor\, Art Educator and Orillian
DESCRIPTION: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. \nJoin 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 Canadian Shield informed her art and life.
URL:https://ontariohistoricalsociety.ca/event/orillia-museum-of-art-and-history-virtual-elizabeth-wyn-wood/
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SUMMARY:Orillia Museum of Art and History (Virtual): From Virginia to Canada: The Journey of My Black Ancestors (A Black History Month Presentation)
DESCRIPTION:While breaking down his ancestral brick wall\, which had him stumped for almost thirty years\, Paul Barber\, a Caucasian born and raised Canadian\, found out that his through his maternal side\, the Hendersons\, he was part of African-American history. \nJoin us to hear Paul Barber recount the family journey that led him to Orillia where\, the Hendersons\, who made their way to Canada in 1840\, played a contributing role in the history of our community.
URL:https://ontariohistoricalsociety.ca/event/orillia-museum-of-art-and-history-virtual-from-virginia-to-canada/
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SUMMARY:Orillia Museum of Art and History (Virtual): The Black Swamp Gang
DESCRIPTION:Around 1880 the whole of north Simcoe County was terrorized by the Black Swamp Gang who robbed farms and then intimidated the farmers into silence through barn-burnings and other threatened vandalism. The gang had formed around Big Sandy McDuff\, the ‘baddest’ of the bad\, a gigantic and temperamental Jarratt farmer – a tavern brawler who never lost a fight. \nJoin us to hear historian Dave Town tell this largely untold story of the gang and the societal background that facilitated their exploits and the vigilantism of the era.
URL:https://ontariohistoricalsociety.ca/event/orillia-museum-of-art-and-history-virtual-the-black-swamp-gang/
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SUMMARY:Orillia Museum of Art and History (Virtual): Jackson's Wars: A.Y. Jackson\, The Birth of the Groups of Seven and The Great War
DESCRIPTION: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 battlefields of Europe\, with critics\, collectors\, public galleries and fellow artists\, as he became one of the best-known Canadian artists of the 20th century.
URL:https://ontariohistoricalsociety.ca/event/orillia-museum-of-art-and-history-virtual-jacksons-wars-a-y-jackson-the-birth-of-the-groups-of-seven-and-the-great-war/
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SUMMARY:Orillia Museum of Art and History (Virtual): The Dieppe Raid: 80 Years of Tragedy and Tribulation
DESCRIPTION:On Aug. 19\, 1942\, in what has been called Canada’s darkest day of World War II\, 907 Canadians were killed and 1\,946 taken prisoner in the Dieppe Raid. What happened on that day 80 years ago is personal for Jayne Poolton-Turvey\, whose father Jack was taken prisoner in the raid and spent nearly three years in Stalag VIIIB in Germany\, including 410 days in chains. \nJoin Jayne as she honours the 554 soldiers in her father’s regiment and recounts some of the stories of the loved ones left behind.
URL:https://ontariohistoricalsociety.ca/event/orillia-museum-of-art-and-history-virtual-the-dieppe-raid-80-years-of-tragedy-and-tribulation/
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SUMMARY:Orillia Museum of Art and History (Virtual): Lori Oschefski – Home Children Canada: Breaking the Silence
DESCRIPTION:Between 1869 and 1948\, over 100\,000 children were forcibly sent from the United Kingdom to Canada to work. Called “orphans\,” only 12 per cent truly were. Many were mistreated\, many never saw their siblings\, parents or families again. \nJoin Lori Oschefski\, President of Home Children Canada\, to learn more about these children\, what they endured and how they overcame.
URL:https://ontariohistoricalsociety.ca/event/orillia-museum-of-art-and-history-virtual-lori-oschefski-home-children-canada-breaking-the-silence/
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