Our first Toronto Branch meeting after the summer break will take place on Monday, September 23 starting at 7:30 pm at Lansing United Church in North York. A century ago, a deadly virus swept through communities around the world, killing 50,000 people in Canada alone in just over eighteen months. One in six Canadian households felt its impact, yet we know very little about their stories. In The Spanish Flu: Toronto’s—Canada’s Forgotten Pandemic, speaker […]
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Are you keen to find out where your DNA test results can take you? Hooked on genetic genealogy but in need of a game plan? On Saturday October 19, join Toronto Branch at Lansing United Church in North York for a full day with Diahan Southard, the founder of Your DNA Guide. Diahan is an internationally known author and speaker with a passion for genetic genealogy and a knack for making the technical understandable. In our workshop, […]
The ninth annual Toronto History Lecture will take place on Wednesday 7 August 2019 at the City of Toronto Archives. Author and scholar Michael Peterman will introduce us to an engaging and versatile Irishman who was the talk of the town in the mid-19th century. James McCarroll challenged the prejudices of Torontonians while entertaining them with his poetry, music and humour. He was a pop culture hit in his day, yet he has been […]
Our next Toronto Branch meeting will take place on Monday, February 25 starting at 7:30 pm at Lansing United Church in North York. What was life like for detectives in Victorian Toronto, and were their jobs as thrilling as on the hit television show Murdoch Mysteries? Our featured speaker, Ellen Maki, will take us back in time and introduce us to some of Toronto’s Early Police Detectives. Who were the policemen who became detectives […]