Toronto Branch presented the thirteenth annual Toronto History Lecture via Zoom on Tuesday August 6, 2024 at 7:30 p.m. EDT. This year’s speaker was acclaimed novelist and non-fiction writer Kristen den Hartog. Her newest book, The Roosting Box: Rebuilding the Body After the First World War, is now longlisted for the 2024 Toronto Book Awards, 50th Anniversary Edition. And it’s available for purchase in the Toronto Branch eShop too! In the 2024 Lecture, we […]
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Our next Toronto Branch meeting will take place on Monday, March 28, beginning at 7:30 p.m. (Eastern Daylight Time). It will be entirely online via Zoom and open to all, but please register in advance. This month, our featured speaker will be Dr. Marianne Fedunkiw, a Toronto historian, writer and playwright. In Serving in Serbia during WWI, Dr. Fedunkiw will tell us the fascinating story of some intrepid British physicians who didn’t take no for an […]
It was in May 1915, during the Second Battle of Ypres, that John McCrae penned the words of In Flanders Fields, the simple poem that became an enduring testament to the toll of war, recited at countless Remembrance Day observances. This November—100 years after the Armistice that brought an end to the Great War—McCrae’s words are as poignant as ever. McCrae’s poetry writing began at Guelph Collegiate, where he was an accomplished student. At the […]
Our last Toronto Branch meeting before the summer break will take place on Monday, June 25 starting at 7:30 pm at Lansing United Church in North York. Our featured speaker Bonnie Bell will commemorate the all too short life of a young man who grew up in Toronto, enlisted with the Air Force as a teenager, and died in World War II when his plane was shot down in the skies over Belgium. Don’t miss […]