Speaker: Kelly Mathews – “The Road to Marylake” In 2018, we enjoyed a most entertaining talk by author Kelly Mathews on the subject of Lady Flora Eaton's lavish country estate in King Township. We are delighted that Kelly will be returning to talk about the subject of her latest book which deals with “Marylake”, the...
Speaker: John Maniezzo – “When Swansea Was Dry” Did you know that the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the Province of Ontario between 1916 and 1927, or that some municipalities, including Swansea, were “dry” for even longer periods of time, under a provision known as “Local Option”? A restaurant partly in Swansea and...
Speaker: Gregory Klages – “The Many Deaths of Tom Thomson” In 1917, shortly before his 40th birthday, the renowned Canadian landscape artist, Tom Thomson, died under mysterious circumstances in Canoe Lake, Algonquin Park. Was it accidental, or was he a murder victim? Author Gregory Klages will talk about Tom Thomson and the various theories that...
Speaker: Plum Johnson – They Left Us Everything Plum Johnson is a Canadian writer raised in Oakville, who won the RBC Taylor Prize in 2015 for her memoir They Left Us Everything. In it, she describes discovering history in what parents leave behind, and about the importance of preserving it to make sense of the...
