Our February Toronto Branch meeting will take place on Monday 22 February starting at 7:30 pm* at the Burgundy Room, North York Memorial Hall, 5110 Yonge Street in Toronto (convenient access from the North York subway station). Genealogy writer and instructor Barbara J. Starmans will be our featured speaker at this meeting. Her main presentation will be on Researching and Sharing Your Family’s Social History—how exploring the social history of our ancestors’ time and […]
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We’re happy to announce our winter 2016 educational season at Toronto Branch—guaranteed to keep you learning through those chilly months ahead… On Tuesday afternoons in February 2016, we’re offering A Series on Social History, with four sessions aimed at enriching your understanding of how your ancestors lived. Our four expert speakers—Ingrid Mida, Sarah B. Hood, Sheila Knox and Marianne Fedunkiw—will help you discover what it meant when people became sick or injured in 19th-century Canada, what […]
Registration is now open for Scotland and its People, a full-day workshop on Saturday 12 April 2014 devoted to the lives and times of our Scottish ancestors – those who stayed at home and those who migrated to Canada. The workshop will be led by two principal speakers: UK-based genealogist Sheena Tait, who specializes in Scottish research, and historian Kevin James, a faculty member in the Scottish Studies Program at the University of Guelph. […]
Toronto Branch is pleased to announce an exciting new lineup of courses for our winter semester in February and March 2014. This time around, we’re offering two brand new two-part lecture series on The Social History of Medicine in 19th Century Canada and The Social History of Dress in 19th Century Canada, a four-session course on Making the Internet Work for Genealogy, as well as a fast-paced one-day Introduction to Genealogy and Family History. […]