Past Event: WTJHS Annual General Meeting : May 5, 2016

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Our 2016 AGM will take place on Thursday, May 5, 2016 concurrent with our regular May public meeting.

We Need Volunteers!

Interested in joining the Society’s Board of Directors, or volunteering in other capacities?  We’d love to have you on board!
Please contact the society at junctionhistorical@gmail.com

Thursday, May 6, 2016: Social Time 7:00 pm, AGM at 7:30 pm
Annette Library, 145 Annette Street, Toronto

PLEASE NOTE:  IN THE EVENT ACCESS TO THE ANNETTE LIBRARY IS NOT POSSIBLE DUE TO LABOUR ISSUES, THE TENTATIVE ALTERNATE LOCATION IS:
West Toronto Baptist Church
3049 Dundas St W, Toronto, ON M6P 1Z5

 

Past Event: April 7th Meeting: “To strengthen peace:” music and dance in the Canadian fur trade (1750 – 1850)

Daniel R. Laxer

LaxerLightenedDaniel R. Laxer was born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta, and received his undergraduate degree in History and Music from the University of Alberta in 2005. After receiving his Master’s degree in Canadian history at York University, he continued on to do his PhD at the University of Toronto, which he received in the Spring of 2015 for his dissertation “Listening to the Fur Trade: Sound, Music, and Dance in Northern North America, 1760-1840.” He has won various accolades and awards including the SOCAN award for best paper in Canadian music in 2011, as well as teaching assistant of the year in the U of T history department in 2013. He is currently revising his dissertation into a book for McGill-Queen’s University Press.

Thursday, April 7, 2016: Social Time 7:00 pm, Business Meeting at 7:30 pm, Speaker at 8:15 pm,  Annette Library, 145 Annette Street, Toronto