EVENTS
Due to COVID-19, unfortunately all in-person NYHS meetings have been cancelled at present. Stay safe, everyone!
Dec
3
Thu
2020
About this Event
The Town of York Historical Society will hold its Annual General Meeting on Thursday, December 3rd online via ZOOM. Following the business meeting, there will be a special talk by guest speaker Adam Bunch on his new (and much anticipated) book The Toronto Book of Love. The Toronto Book of Love brings the history of the city to life with fascinating true tales of romance, marriage and passion — from the scandalous love affairs of the city’s early settlers to the prime minister’s wife partying with rock stars on her anniversary. The talk will share a few stories from the book as well as exploring the evolution of Toronto’s ever-changing attitudes toward love. FREE for TYHS members, $10 for non-members. All are welcome 🌈 but space is limited. Please RSVP!About Adam Bunch:
Adam Bunch is the author of The Toronto Book of the Dead, the creator of The Toronto Dreams Project, and the host of the Canadiana documentary series. He’s spoken at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Royal Ontario Museum, and the University of Toronto among other places; his historical writing has appeared in Spacing Magazine, The Huffington Post and Torontoist; and his work has earned an honourable mention for a Governor General’s History Award.Jan
12
Tue
2021
Jan 12 @ 7:00 pm
These topics will be taken up in a four-part ZOOM series, sponsored by the Enoch Turner Schoolhouse Foundation, which begins in November 2020 and will continue in January 2021. The sessions feature presentations and panel discussions on a range of important educational themes. The series, free of charge, and accessible online, is designed for a broad audience interested in the past, present and future of Canadian education. The third Session (January 12, 2021) is entitled: Doing the Right Thing: Disability, Autism and Special Education. Panelists include University of British Columbia Professor, Jason Ellis, author of A Class By Themselves: The Origins of Special Education in Toronto and Beyond; Natalie Spagnuolo from the Council of Canadians with Disabilities, and co-founder of Memory Witness and Hope: Sharing Stories About Surviving Institutions; Gillian Parekh, Canada Research Chair: Inclusion, Disability and Education at York University; and Margaret Spoelstra, President of Autism Ontario. Jan
19
Tue
2021
Jan 19 @ 7:00 pm
These topics will be taken up in a four-part ZOOM series, sponsored by the Enoch Turner Schoolhouse Foundation, which begins in November 2020 and will continue in January 2021. The sessions feature presentations and panel discussions on a range of important educational themes. The series, free of charge, and accessible online, is designed for a broad audience interested in the past, present and future of Canadian education. The final session (January 19) turns to higher education, and asks “Does Liberal Education Matter in the 21st Century?” Lorna Marsden, former President of York University, is joined on the panel by Paul Gooch, past president of Victoria University in the University of Toronto and author of Course Correction: A Map for the Distracted University; the University of Waterloo’s Ian Milligan, author of History in the Age of Abundance? How the Web is Transforming Historical Research; and Qiang Zha, York University professor, and co-editor of International Status Anxiety and Higher Education: The Soviet Legacy in China and Russia. 