Events
From our great Speaker's Nights featuring experts on local and national history to specialty event programming, our goal is to entertain and educate. Here is a sample of some of the events being held in the coming months. Come join us!
NOTE: OUR SPEAKER's NIGHT SERIES IS AN EXCLUSIVE EVENT FOR MEMBERS OF THE ETOBICOKE HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND AS SUCH, THERE IS LIMITED SEATING. TO LEARN MORE ABOUT BECOMING A MEMBER, PLEASE CLICK HERE.
NOTE: OUR SPEAKER's NIGHT SERIES IS AN EXCLUSIVE EVENT FOR MEMBERS OF THE ETOBICOKE HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND AS SUCH, THERE IS LIMITED SEATING. TO LEARN MORE ABOUT BECOMING A MEMBER, PLEASE CLICK HERE.
Thursday, September 19, 2019 - Annual General Meeting & Speaker's Night: Accidents, Illnesses, and Sirens - The History of Toronto's Ambulance Services.
Bruce Newton wanted to preserve the history of Toronto’s ambulance services. The retired paramedic compiled years of personal research resulting in the publishing of his first book in August 2017: Accidents, Illness and Sirens: The History of Toronto's Ambulance Services. Bruce will tell the story of the different ambulance services that have operated in Toronto since 1832, when the first organized form of ambulance transportation (known as the carter) was established during the deadly cholera outbreak. Over the next more than a century ambulance service continued to be provided by many different independent operators throughout the City. It wasn’t until 1975 that the private, provincial and municipal ambulances services in Toronto were amalgamated.
Bruce Newton is a 45-year Veteran of Toronto's Ambulance Service after having retired in 2017. He grew up in Etobicoke and, in 1972, enrolled in Humber College’s emergency and casualty attendant program (the first pilot community college program for paramedics in Ontario). A year later, he was hired as an ambulance driver attendant by the Metropolitan Toronto Department of Emergency Services and advanced to the position of Paramedic Superintendent before his retirement.
NOTE: The EHS Annual General Meeting will occur before the Speaker's presentation.
Location: Montgomery's Inn, 4709 Dundas St W, Etobicoke, ON M9A 1A8
Time: 7:30pm (Refreshments served from 7pm onward)
Bruce Newton wanted to preserve the history of Toronto’s ambulance services. The retired paramedic compiled years of personal research resulting in the publishing of his first book in August 2017: Accidents, Illness and Sirens: The History of Toronto's Ambulance Services. Bruce will tell the story of the different ambulance services that have operated in Toronto since 1832, when the first organized form of ambulance transportation (known as the carter) was established during the deadly cholera outbreak. Over the next more than a century ambulance service continued to be provided by many different independent operators throughout the City. It wasn’t until 1975 that the private, provincial and municipal ambulances services in Toronto were amalgamated.
Bruce Newton is a 45-year Veteran of Toronto's Ambulance Service after having retired in 2017. He grew up in Etobicoke and, in 1972, enrolled in Humber College’s emergency and casualty attendant program (the first pilot community college program for paramedics in Ontario). A year later, he was hired as an ambulance driver attendant by the Metropolitan Toronto Department of Emergency Services and advanced to the position of Paramedic Superintendent before his retirement.
NOTE: The EHS Annual General Meeting will occur before the Speaker's presentation.
Location: Montgomery's Inn, 4709 Dundas St W, Etobicoke, ON M9A 1A8
Time: 7:30pm (Refreshments served from 7pm onward)
Thursday, October 17, 2019 - Speaker's Night: Hurricane Hazel and its Legacy.
2019 marks the 65th anniversary of Hurricane Hazel, the most deadly natural disaster in recorded history to hit southern Ontario. An entire neighbourhood in the Humber River valley was washed away and the storm left in its wake many deaths and displaced people.
Richard Jordan is an EHS Board Member, having previously served as a Director from 1980 to 1996, including a two-year term as President. He also served two terms as a citizen member of the Etobicoke Historical Board in the 1980s.
Richard grew up in North York and studied Geography and Environmental Studies at York University before relocating to Etobicoke. Now retired from the City of Mississauga, where he was a Geographic Information Systems Specialist, Richard contributed a local heritage column in the Toronto Star from 1984 to 1991 as well as feature articles in a number of genealogy and history magazines.
Richard’s family genealogy book, Beyond the Great Pine Ridge, was published in 2004 and he is now working on a book about Irish Protestants in Canada. He has recently produced a mini-documentary about a true incident from his family’s past entitled Murder in the Family Tree. Richard is well known for his speaking engagements with historical societies and seniors groups.
Location: Montgomery's Inn, 4709 Dundas St W, Etobicoke, ON M9A 1A8
Time: 7:30pm (Refreshments served from 7pm onward)
2019 marks the 65th anniversary of Hurricane Hazel, the most deadly natural disaster in recorded history to hit southern Ontario. An entire neighbourhood in the Humber River valley was washed away and the storm left in its wake many deaths and displaced people.
Richard Jordan is an EHS Board Member, having previously served as a Director from 1980 to 1996, including a two-year term as President. He also served two terms as a citizen member of the Etobicoke Historical Board in the 1980s.
Richard grew up in North York and studied Geography and Environmental Studies at York University before relocating to Etobicoke. Now retired from the City of Mississauga, where he was a Geographic Information Systems Specialist, Richard contributed a local heritage column in the Toronto Star from 1984 to 1991 as well as feature articles in a number of genealogy and history magazines.
Richard’s family genealogy book, Beyond the Great Pine Ridge, was published in 2004 and he is now working on a book about Irish Protestants in Canada. He has recently produced a mini-documentary about a true incident from his family’s past entitled Murder in the Family Tree. Richard is well known for his speaking engagements with historical societies and seniors groups.
Location: Montgomery's Inn, 4709 Dundas St W, Etobicoke, ON M9A 1A8
Time: 7:30pm (Refreshments served from 7pm onward)
Thursday, November 21, 2019 - Speaker's Night: Canada's World Wonders.
Take a journey with Ron Brown across Canada to visit our world-renowned natural and historic landmarks. You'll visit our country’s natural parks, UNESCO World Heritage Sites, Indigenous cultural sites including the locations of ancient inuksuit. You'll travel through the world’s longest and deepest railway tunnel, cruise the Trans-Canada Highway, explore the Grosse Îsle and Pier 21 immigration memorials, tour the graves of the failed Franklin Expedition, and visit the Vimy Ridge War Memorial, all with Ron Brown’s engaging historical commentary.
Ron Brown is a geographer and heritage writer. He has authored more than twenty books, including Rails Over the Mountains and The Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore. A past chair of the Writers’ Union of Canada, he also conducts tours along Ontario’s back roads. Ron has been a frequent EHS Speaker having given many memorable and enjoyable presentations over the years.
Location: Montgomery's Inn, 4709 Dundas St W, Etobicoke, ON M9A 1A8
Time: 7:30pm (Refreshments served from 7pm onward)
Take a journey with Ron Brown across Canada to visit our world-renowned natural and historic landmarks. You'll visit our country’s natural parks, UNESCO World Heritage Sites, Indigenous cultural sites including the locations of ancient inuksuit. You'll travel through the world’s longest and deepest railway tunnel, cruise the Trans-Canada Highway, explore the Grosse Îsle and Pier 21 immigration memorials, tour the graves of the failed Franklin Expedition, and visit the Vimy Ridge War Memorial, all with Ron Brown’s engaging historical commentary.
Ron Brown is a geographer and heritage writer. He has authored more than twenty books, including Rails Over the Mountains and The Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore. A past chair of the Writers’ Union of Canada, he also conducts tours along Ontario’s back roads. Ron has been a frequent EHS Speaker having given many memorable and enjoyable presentations over the years.
Location: Montgomery's Inn, 4709 Dundas St W, Etobicoke, ON M9A 1A8
Time: 7:30pm (Refreshments served from 7pm onward)