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.
Dear EHS Members,
The City of Toronto has announced a list of facilities that would be closed due to COVID-19 which included the City Museums. You can learn more by CLICKING HERE.
As a result of the closure of Montgomery's Inn and also to support the City's directive to limit public gatherings, EHS will be cancelling the Speaker's Night originally scheduled for April and May 2020.
Please visit our website regularly for updates on future events.
Thanks to everyone for your understanding.
Best Wishes,
The Etobicoke Historical Society
The City of Toronto has announced a list of facilities that would be closed due to COVID-19 which included the City Museums. You can learn more by CLICKING HERE.
As a result of the closure of Montgomery's Inn and also to support the City's directive to limit public gatherings, EHS will be cancelling the Speaker's Night originally scheduled for April and May 2020.
Please visit our website regularly for updates on future events.
Thanks to everyone for your understanding.
Best Wishes,
The Etobicoke Historical Society
Thursday, April 16, 2020 - Speaker's Night: Between Raid & Rebellion: The Irish in Buffalo and Toronto, 1867-1916. THIS EVENT IS CURRENTLY CANCELLED
William Jenkins compares the lives and allegiances of Irish immigrants and their descendants in one American and one Canadian city between the era of the Fenian raids and the 1916 Easter Rising. Highlighting the significance of immigrants from Ulster to Toronto and from Munster to Buffalo, he distinguishes what it meant to be Irish in a loyal dominion within Britain's empire and in a republic whose self-confidence knew no bounds. With the question of Irish home rule animating debates throughout the period, Toronto's unionist sympathizers presented a marked contrast to Buffalo's nationalist agitators.
William Jenkins is an Associate Professor of Historical Geography at York University. He completed his PhD in Historical Geography at the University of Toronto in 2001 after obtaining an MA from University College Dublin, Ireland in 1995. William specializes in the study of Irish migration to Canada and the U.S. from 1815 to 1914 and has written several books and many articles on the topic. His current book, Between Raid and Rebellion: the Irish in Buffalo and Toronto 1867-1916, has won awards from the Ontario Historical Society, Canadian Historical Association, the American Conference for Irish Studies and The Geographical Society of Ireland.
Location: Montgomery's Inn, 4709 Dundas St W, Etobicoke, ON M9A 1A8
Time: 7:30pm (Refreshments served from 7pm onward)
William Jenkins compares the lives and allegiances of Irish immigrants and their descendants in one American and one Canadian city between the era of the Fenian raids and the 1916 Easter Rising. Highlighting the significance of immigrants from Ulster to Toronto and from Munster to Buffalo, he distinguishes what it meant to be Irish in a loyal dominion within Britain's empire and in a republic whose self-confidence knew no bounds. With the question of Irish home rule animating debates throughout the period, Toronto's unionist sympathizers presented a marked contrast to Buffalo's nationalist agitators.
William Jenkins is an Associate Professor of Historical Geography at York University. He completed his PhD in Historical Geography at the University of Toronto in 2001 after obtaining an MA from University College Dublin, Ireland in 1995. William specializes in the study of Irish migration to Canada and the U.S. from 1815 to 1914 and has written several books and many articles on the topic. His current book, Between Raid and Rebellion: the Irish in Buffalo and Toronto 1867-1916, has won awards from the Ontario Historical Society, Canadian Historical Association, the American Conference for Irish Studies and The Geographical Society of Ireland.
Location: Montgomery's Inn, 4709 Dundas St W, Etobicoke, ON M9A 1A8
Time: 7:30pm (Refreshments served from 7pm onward)
Thursday, May 21, 2020 - Speaker's Night: "The Ward" THIS EVENT IS CURRENTLY CANCELLED
From the 1870s to the 1950s, waves of immigrants to Toronto – Irish, Jewish, Chinese and Italian, among others – landed in ‘The Ward’ in the centre of downtown. Deemed a slum, the area was crammed with derelict housing and ‘ethnic’ businesses; it was razed in the 1950s to make way for a grand civic plaza and modern city hall. John Lorinc will use archival photos and contributions from a wide variety of voices to tell the story of this complex neighbourhood and the lessons it offers about immigration and poverty in big cities.
John Lorinc is a Senior Editor at Spacing Magazine and an award-winning journalist who has contributed to Toronto Life, MacLean’s, The Globe and Mail, National Post, Saturday Night, Report on Business, and Quill & Quire, among other publications. As the non-fiction editor for Toronto’s Coach House Books, he has contributed to many books including The Ward: The Life and Loss of Toronto's First Immigrant Neighbourhood and The Ward Uncovered. John also specializes in leading walking tours of The Ward and other Toronto historic areas, some of which have been included in the annual Jane’s Walks.
Location: Montgomery's Inn, 4709 Dundas St W, Etobicoke, ON M9A 1A8
Time: 7:30pm (Refreshments served from 7pm onward)
From the 1870s to the 1950s, waves of immigrants to Toronto – Irish, Jewish, Chinese and Italian, among others – landed in ‘The Ward’ in the centre of downtown. Deemed a slum, the area was crammed with derelict housing and ‘ethnic’ businesses; it was razed in the 1950s to make way for a grand civic plaza and modern city hall. John Lorinc will use archival photos and contributions from a wide variety of voices to tell the story of this complex neighbourhood and the lessons it offers about immigration and poverty in big cities.
John Lorinc is a Senior Editor at Spacing Magazine and an award-winning journalist who has contributed to Toronto Life, MacLean’s, The Globe and Mail, National Post, Saturday Night, Report on Business, and Quill & Quire, among other publications. As the non-fiction editor for Toronto’s Coach House Books, he has contributed to many books including The Ward: The Life and Loss of Toronto's First Immigrant Neighbourhood and The Ward Uncovered. John also specializes in leading walking tours of The Ward and other Toronto historic areas, some of which have been included in the annual Jane’s Walks.
Location: Montgomery's Inn, 4709 Dundas St W, Etobicoke, ON M9A 1A8
Time: 7:30pm (Refreshments served from 7pm onward)