The WTJHS 2022 Annual General Meeting is scheduled for May 5, 2022 on Zoom at 7 PM. The AGM will report on our 2021 activities and propose the budget for 2022.
In preparation for the AGM, this is a Call for Nominations for any of the six elected Officer positions (President, Vice President, Treasurer, Membership Secretary, Corresponding Secretary and Recording Secretary). At present, the Nominating Committee is looking for people to fill the following positions: Treasurer and web/media coordinator (including MailChimp distribution). There may be other positions needed as well so please consider putting your name forward. Specific details about the job descriptions for these roles are listed on the wtjhs.ca website. If you have any questions, please email junctionhistorical@gmail.com. Here’s to keeping our fascinating, diverse, colourful history of the Junction neighbourhood alive!
Everyone is welcome to attend our AGM on May 5. Only 2022 members and life members are entitled to vote at the AGM.
The following will be posted to wtjhs.ca by late April:
the 2021 WTJHS Annual Report, including minutes of the 2021 AGM, the 2021 financial statements and reports on activities during 2021
the Nominating Committee’s slate of candidates for election to the six officer positions
the proposed budget for 2022
The Zoom invitation also will be posted on wtjhs.ca at the end of April and included in a reminder email shortly before the May 5 AGM.
Looking forward to seeing you on May 5th at 7 PM, -The WTJHS Executive Committee
This talk will explore who the Indigenous peoples are who have lived in the Toronto area for the past several centuries, their village sites and use of the land.
It will discuss the treaties between the British and the Mississaugas of the Credit for the lands in the area and will suggest opportunities for further learning.
Alison Norman is a historian, researcher and historical consultant. She is currently faculty in the Frost Centre for Canadian Studies & Indigenous Studies at Trent University (2017-21). She worked in the Ontario Ministry of Indigenous Affairs as a historian for six years. She earned her Ph.D. and B.Ed. from OISE/University of Toronto, and her dissertation focused on Six Nations women’s work in the early 20th Century. She held a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship at Trent University in which she began research into the history of Indigenous teachers in 19th century southern Ontario, and she worked as a researcher for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Alison has published articles in Indigenous, culinary and commemoration history, and is currently the book review editor for Ontario History. She is a member of the Mohawk Institute Research Group, and is co-editing a book on the history of the Mohawk Institute.
Zoom details:
Time: Apr 7, 2022 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Zoom presentation by Jill Taylor, Restoration Architect
Jill Taylor co-founded Taylor Hazell Architects (THA) with Charles Hazell in 1992. The firm relocated to the Junction in November 2021, after purchasing and renovating the landmark William Speers Building at 2928 Dundas Street West.
Jill’s talk will be about the inspiration for her work, the importance of interdisciplinarity and humanities in architecture, and the firm’s hopes for activism in heritage preservation in the West Toronto Junction.
Jill has been an architect since 1991, with a specialization in in the heritage field, as a courthouse designer, a designer of educational and cultural institutions, and in facility planning and programming. Prior to private practice she worked for the Ontario Heritage Trust. She is a highly regarded member of the heritage conservation field, and has served as Chair of ICOMOS Canada Committees, Chair of the Conservation Review Board of Ontario, President of the Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals, and served on committees related to government policy including on the Ontario Building Code. She has lectured for the National Trust, RAIC, Ontario Association of Architects, at international round tables and at the college and university level on issues of heritage, sustainability and accessibility.
Prior to architecture, Jill studied Art History and Literature at the University of Toronto; she is a graduate of U of T, where she studied from 1976- 1982.
Jill believes that the future of our land, water, cities and towns depends on urgent action now to sustain the valued natural and built environment.
She has worked on heritage projects across Ontario that have integrated pure conservation of interior and exteriors of buildings with the adaptive reuse of spaces for modern use. She has a deep regard for the work of past architects, crafts people and labourers, and sees the imperative of sustaining good materials and techniques as a path to understanding a sustainable world. She is also an advocate of accessibility to heritage places, and facing the challenges that alteration within a heritage environment means for just access for all. Projects of note include, the Osgoode Hall Courthouse and Toronto Courthouse, Dundurn Castle and Conference Centre, the Humber College, Humber Arboretum, Jones Avenue School Reconstruction and York Memorial Collegiate Institute Reconstruction, and the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. She was a co-author of the City of Toronto Official Plan, Heritage Section 3.1.5.
She is proud of an award-winning video available on the THA website called, Rolling with Rollo, a short documentary on barriers to access. www.taylorhazell.com.
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