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 learned about the fascinating Christie Street Hospital, opened at the end of WWI in a renovated cash register factory in Toronto’s west end to treat wounded soldiers coming home. With the help of old letters, diaries, military service records, newspapers and interviews with descendants, Kristen explored the aftermath of war, and its effects on the city, its people and the medical community.
Find out more about the Toronto History Lecture.
