Join us on September 28th for our annual AGM, from our virtual location at the Elgin and Winter Garden Theaters! About this event The Town of York Historical Society will hold its Annual General Meeting on Thursday, September 28th online via Zoom. Following the business meeting, there will be a special talk by Ellen Flowers,...
Join us on October 21st for the next evening in our author's series! It’s common for people to tell you to write about what you know. But Ann Birch chooses to write—in three of her four novels-- about real historical people who lived in York (early Toronto) in the late 1700s and early 1800s. Since...
Join us on November 18th for the next evening in our author's series! Join author Robin Blackburn McBride as she discusses Toronto’s history via a tour of selected settings and passages in her debut novel, The Shining Fragments (Guernica, 2018). Recognized as an Editors’ Choice book with the Historical Novel Society in North America, The...
Join us on December 2nd for the final evening in our author's series! Katie Daubs will speak about how she recreated the city from the 1870s to the 1930s for her book The Missing Millionaire, the True Story of Ambrose Small and the City Obsessed with Finding Him. In December 1919, Ambrose Small, the mercurial...
The revitalization of sections of Toronto’s waterfront is underway, which will prevent flooding within the Don Valley and create new greenspaces in the Port Lands. During excavation of the new Don River channel, a large deposit of twentieth century "garbage" was uncovered, including some surprising objects. Join Scott Eckford, Archeologist at the Toronto and Region...
