Thank you to all who joined us online for our May meeting of Toronto Branch. If you weren’t able to catch it live, you can still watch our two presentations—by Katie Daubs on Finding the Ambrose Small story, and Michael Nettleton on What will you find at the House of Industry? The video recording of our meeting will be posted on our Webinars page for the next couple of weeks, along with the supporting […]
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Our next Toronto Branch meeting will be on Monday, May 25, starting at 7:30 pm. Once again, this meeting will be entirely online due to COVID-19 restrictions, and open to all. This month, journalist Katie Daubs will share with us how she researched the mysterious disappearance of a Toronto theatre mogul a century ago for her recently-published book The Missing Millionaire. Join us for Finding the Ambrose Small story — a cold case tale […]
Our next Toronto Branch meeting will take place on Monday, April 29 starting at 7:30 pm at Lansing United Church at Poyntz Avenue and Beecroft Road in North York. The main speaker at our April meeting will be the author of Driv’n by Fortune, a book about the 78th Fraser’s Highlanders—a Scots regiment that settled in Canada. Sam Allison will discuss the sources used to trace these military migrants, and highlight some of the problems […]
In the chill of a Toronto winter in 1859, 31-year-old Catharine Allen had two young children, was heavily pregnant with her third, and had been deserted by her husband. Ann McClauliff, a 66-year-old widow, had survived by selling fruit from a basket in the summer but could no longer make a living in the cold weather. William Pellett, just 6 years old, had been picked up by the Police Magistrate because his parents had […]