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. 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. TO LEARN MORE ABOUT BECOMING A MEMBER, PLEASE CLICK HERE.
Hybrid Speaker's Nights at Montgomery's Inn
Our Speaker's Nights returned to meeting in-person in the Community Room at Montgomery's Inn in February 2023. All meetings are now presented as hybrid meetings - the Speaker is present in-person at the Inn while simultaneously being broadcast live over Zoom webinar. So you can choose to either attend in-person at the Inn or stay home and join virtually online.
All EHS members will receive an email before each event with information for the option to attend online. To become a member and receive an invite, please CLICK HERE.
Our Speaker's Nights returned to meeting in-person in the Community Room at Montgomery's Inn in February 2023. All meetings are now presented as hybrid meetings - the Speaker is present in-person at the Inn while simultaneously being broadcast live over Zoom webinar. So you can choose to either attend in-person at the Inn or stay home and join virtually online.
All EHS members will receive an email before each event with information for the option to attend online. To become a member and receive an invite, please CLICK HERE.
Thursday, May 16, 2024 - Speaker's Night: The Beaches - New Findings About an Old Neighbourhood
The Beaches (not the Beach) is one of the city’s best-known neighbourhoods, and its history has been recounted in several excellent local publications. But over the course of researching and writing his new book on the history of the neighbourhood, Richard White found plenty of history – both facts and interpretations – that had not yet been told. Richard will highlight some of the key findings in his book.
Richard White (PhD 1995, University of Toronto) was a longstanding, now retired, part-time lecturer in history at the UT, initially Canadian history at UT Mississauga and, latterly, the history of urban planning at UT Scarborough. His first academic specialty was the history of civil engineering, but a few years as the inaugural Research Director of the Toronto-based Neptis Foundation led him into the history of urban planning, a field in which he remains active. His book Planning Toronto: The Planners, the Plans, Their Legacies, 1940-80 (UBC Press, 2016) was named best local or regional history in Ontario by the Ontario Historical Society in 2017. A long-time resident of the Beaches neighbourhood, he began researching its history several years ago and recently completed The Beaches: Creation of a Toronto Neighbourhood (UT Press, forthcoming).
Location: Montgomery's Inn, 4709 Dundas St W, Etobicoke, ON M9A 1A8
Start Time: 7:30pm (Refreshments served from 7pm onwards)
The Beaches (not the Beach) is one of the city’s best-known neighbourhoods, and its history has been recounted in several excellent local publications. But over the course of researching and writing his new book on the history of the neighbourhood, Richard White found plenty of history – both facts and interpretations – that had not yet been told. Richard will highlight some of the key findings in his book.
Richard White (PhD 1995, University of Toronto) was a longstanding, now retired, part-time lecturer in history at the UT, initially Canadian history at UT Mississauga and, latterly, the history of urban planning at UT Scarborough. His first academic specialty was the history of civil engineering, but a few years as the inaugural Research Director of the Toronto-based Neptis Foundation led him into the history of urban planning, a field in which he remains active. His book Planning Toronto: The Planners, the Plans, Their Legacies, 1940-80 (UBC Press, 2016) was named best local or regional history in Ontario by the Ontario Historical Society in 2017. A long-time resident of the Beaches neighbourhood, he began researching its history several years ago and recently completed The Beaches: Creation of a Toronto Neighbourhood (UT Press, forthcoming).
Location: Montgomery's Inn, 4709 Dundas St W, Etobicoke, ON M9A 1A8
Start Time: 7:30pm (Refreshments served from 7pm onwards)