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!
Saturday, August 5, 2017 - Walk the 6 West: History On The Humber
A Special one-day theatrical event exploring some of the personalities from West Toronto’s past presented in Étienne Brûlé Park.
Meet your guides at Old Mill Subway Station OR Lambton House 4066 Old Dundas St. Tours Start: Saturday August 5, 2017 at 12 noon and 2:30 PM from both locations. One and a half hours.
First Walk: 12 – 1:30 p.m.
Second Walk: 2:30 – 4 p.m.
Join us with the whole family for a special walking tour of six “living history” theatrical presentations, including performances by:
Ars Musica
Cheri Maracle
Mixed Company Theatre
Neil Ross
Sara Moyle
Featuring stories of Ontario history as told by the likes of:
Pauline Johnson, Poet and Performer
Tom Thomson, Painter
Joshua Glover, Freedom Seeker
Geraldine Moodie, Photographer
Sir William Howland, Confederation Politician
...plus a trio of local characters from the Junction
Mrs. Brown
A.B. Rice
Anne Leung
Guided tours leaving from both the Lambton House 4066 Old Dundas Street. TTC bus 55 from Jane station to the door and Old Mill Subway station at 12 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. Reserve your free space in a walking tour here (after July 22). Follow us at @historyonhumber. Information Line: (647) 675-1792. Web Site: http://pvhs.info/historyonthehumber/
A Special one-day theatrical event exploring some of the personalities from West Toronto’s past presented in Étienne Brûlé Park.
Meet your guides at Old Mill Subway Station OR Lambton House 4066 Old Dundas St. Tours Start: Saturday August 5, 2017 at 12 noon and 2:30 PM from both locations. One and a half hours.
First Walk: 12 – 1:30 p.m.
Second Walk: 2:30 – 4 p.m.
Join us with the whole family for a special walking tour of six “living history” theatrical presentations, including performances by:
Ars Musica
Cheri Maracle
Mixed Company Theatre
Neil Ross
Sara Moyle
Featuring stories of Ontario history as told by the likes of:
Pauline Johnson, Poet and Performer
Tom Thomson, Painter
Joshua Glover, Freedom Seeker
Geraldine Moodie, Photographer
Sir William Howland, Confederation Politician
...plus a trio of local characters from the Junction
Mrs. Brown
A.B. Rice
Anne Leung
Guided tours leaving from both the Lambton House 4066 Old Dundas Street. TTC bus 55 from Jane station to the door and Old Mill Subway station at 12 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. Reserve your free space in a walking tour here (after July 22). Follow us at @historyonhumber. Information Line: (647) 675-1792. Web Site: http://pvhs.info/historyonthehumber/
Thursday, September 28, 2017 - Speaker's Night: Finding 19th Century Black History in Toronto
Finding 19th Century Black History in Toronto is an overview of a hundred years of history from the time of slavery in the Town of York to the election of Toronto’s first Black alderman in 1894.
In 1799, the little Town of York’s Black population numbered 25, of a total of fewer than 700 people. Some of these African-Canadians were the “property” of slaveholders like Peter Russell and William Jarvis; others were Loyalists, free people or those who had fled slavery in the United States. By the time of the US Civil War, there were 2,000 or more Blacks living in Toronto, and many more in the surrounding countryside of York County. The greatest number of Black residents could be found in York Township West, followed by Etobicoke, where they were landowners as well as labourers.
Historian Hilary Dawson will tell stories of some of these families of African descent who lived in Toronto and Etobicoke in the 19th century, the communities they lived in and the issues and challenges they faced.
Speaker BIO: Hilary Dawson is a historical researcher who has worked in a number of museums in the UK and Canada, including Wilberforce House, Hull, U.K, and Montgomery’s Inn in Etobicoke. At Montgomery’s Inn, for many years she was a historical interpreter, heritage cook, researcher and conservator. She was also responsible for several Black History Month exhibits.
Hilary’s research into nineteenth century Etobicoke Township uncovered a previously unknown Black presence. This allowed historical interpreters to include the stories of actual people of African descent in the narrative of nineteenth-century Etobicoke. In 2002, the Etobicoke Historical Society presented Hilary with the Jean Hibbert Award for her contribution to Etobicoke history.
Hilary provided the Ontario research used in Finding Freedom: the Untold Story of Joshua Glover, Runaway Slave, by Ruby West Jackson and Walter T. McDonald (Madison, WI: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2007.) As a result of her quest for Toronto area history through the stories of the people who lived here, she has published several articles on Ontario black history. Hilary is currently working on a book about Alfred Lafferty, the first black high school principal in the province, who was also the first Canadian-born black lawyer in Ontario.
Location: Montgomery's Inn, 4709 Dundas St W, Etobicoke, ON M9A 1A8
Time: 7:30pm (Refreshments served from 7pm onward)
NOTE: The Annual General Meeting of the Etobicoke Historical Society will take place before the speaker takes the stage.
Finding 19th Century Black History in Toronto is an overview of a hundred years of history from the time of slavery in the Town of York to the election of Toronto’s first Black alderman in 1894.
In 1799, the little Town of York’s Black population numbered 25, of a total of fewer than 700 people. Some of these African-Canadians were the “property” of slaveholders like Peter Russell and William Jarvis; others were Loyalists, free people or those who had fled slavery in the United States. By the time of the US Civil War, there were 2,000 or more Blacks living in Toronto, and many more in the surrounding countryside of York County. The greatest number of Black residents could be found in York Township West, followed by Etobicoke, where they were landowners as well as labourers.
Historian Hilary Dawson will tell stories of some of these families of African descent who lived in Toronto and Etobicoke in the 19th century, the communities they lived in and the issues and challenges they faced.
Speaker BIO: Hilary Dawson is a historical researcher who has worked in a number of museums in the UK and Canada, including Wilberforce House, Hull, U.K, and Montgomery’s Inn in Etobicoke. At Montgomery’s Inn, for many years she was a historical interpreter, heritage cook, researcher and conservator. She was also responsible for several Black History Month exhibits.
Hilary’s research into nineteenth century Etobicoke Township uncovered a previously unknown Black presence. This allowed historical interpreters to include the stories of actual people of African descent in the narrative of nineteenth-century Etobicoke. In 2002, the Etobicoke Historical Society presented Hilary with the Jean Hibbert Award for her contribution to Etobicoke history.
Hilary provided the Ontario research used in Finding Freedom: the Untold Story of Joshua Glover, Runaway Slave, by Ruby West Jackson and Walter T. McDonald (Madison, WI: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2007.) As a result of her quest for Toronto area history through the stories of the people who lived here, she has published several articles on Ontario black history. Hilary is currently working on a book about Alfred Lafferty, the first black high school principal in the province, who was also the first Canadian-born black lawyer in Ontario.
Location: Montgomery's Inn, 4709 Dundas St W, Etobicoke, ON M9A 1A8
Time: 7:30pm (Refreshments served from 7pm onward)
NOTE: The Annual General Meeting of the Etobicoke Historical Society will take place before the speaker takes the stage.
