Events Calendar

Upcoming Events Across Ontario

Toronto Railway Museum – Speaker Series Returns with “How Rail Industry Knowledge Informs Heritage Preservation”

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Historic locomotives and railcars can be mysterious and challenging objects, but there are similarities between the 19th and 21st century rail industry that provide historians context for preservation. Join Chris Fox for a lively discussion of his experience in maintaining heritage rolling stock using his industry knowledge that he's compiled throughout his rail career. About...

Historical Society of Ottawa Speaker Series : A Holocaust Testimonial: My Father’s Story

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Guest Speaker Phil Emberley Following WWII, approximately 40,000 Holocaust survivors resettled in Canada. (Ottawa became home to many of those Holocaust survivors and hundreds of their descendants). Phil’s father, Dieter, may be considered one of the more fortunate of those Jewish children to have experienced the dark days of 1930s Nazi Germany and the horrors...