If you’d like more information, or care to sign a petition supporting the recently about-to-be evicted Canadian Aerospace Museum, take a look at: casmuseum.org

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Our Christmas/Solstice Social.  Come and make some history!

7:30 PM:  Refreshments, Auction, and Reminiscences:

Talking Circle: Cowboys and Cattle in the Junction

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Gary Blakely -photo by Robert Lansdale

7:30 PM

Refreshments and Business Meeting

8:15 PM

Photographer Gary Blakeley is the inventor of the Zeitag phone app which pinpoints a location on an interactive city map of Toronto and displays historical photographs nearby from forty, fifty, or a hundred years ago. WTJHS has provided Gary with several Junction archival images which can now be viewed online.

More info on Zeitag & Mr. Blakely:  http://phsc.ca/camera/?p=1431

Coming up at Heintzman Place !

The West Toronto Junction Historical Society presents a historical talk show recreating the grand days of the Heintzman Piano Factory once on the site of Heintzman Place.  We will meet the legendary characters that created the Junction as a village, town and then a city before it joined Toronto.  See why WTJHS is one of the most innovative and exciting historical societies in the city — and meet descendants of the Heintzman family with personal memories of the piano dynasty.

Sunday, Nov 20, 3:30 pm, in the Multi-Purpose room at 60 Heintzman St. following the Heintzman Place Board of Directors Meet and Greet event.

Check out this video preview excerpt from a WTJHS Heintzman month meeting:

[With much thanks to Andrew Brown for the video, and of course to Tom and George Heintzman]

and some video from our latest Heintzman walking tour:

[Again thanks to Andrew Brown for the video]

and,  Junction History Mash-Up performed by Humberside CI students to the music of Isaias Garcia’s Junction Suite, featuring the Heintzman Concerto for Imaginary Pianos: