For the final Local History Speaker Series of 2023, we are hosting a movie night, screening the National Film Board of Canada Documentary, Unarchived. In community archives across British Columbia, local knowledge keepers are hand-fashioning a more inclusive history. Through a collage of personal interviews, archival footage and deeply rooted memories, the past, present and future come...

We’re excited to welcome back a favourite speaker, Ron Brown who will look at Ontario’s Ghost Towns, vestiges of once-thriving towns and villages. While some still maintain small resident populations, others exist only as abandoned buildings and foundation ruins; they all are “ghosts” of their former greatness and their images evoke their lost legacies. October’s Local...

In October and November 1923, the Williams Treaties were signed by the governments of Canada and by seven First Nations of the Chippewa of Lake Simcoe and the Mississauga of the north shore of Lake Ontario. September’s Local History Speaker Series welcomes Dave Mowat, Chief, Alderville First Nation, who will speak about the 1923 Williams...

The most sensational trial of the mid-1850s resulted in the only hanging in Northumberland County. Dr. King poisoned his wife with arsenic in Brighton and, after the trial and hanging, was buried in the front yard of the King family farm house at Codrington – the same house where the author grew up! Here is...

We are excited to start the 2023 Local History Speaker Series with a look at the history of newspapers in Oshawa. On Tuesday, January 17, at 6pm, Nicole Adams, Local History & Genealogy Librarian for the Oshawa Public Libraries will present Read all about it: A History of Newspapers in Oshawa. The Local History Speaker...