We will be back Thursday, September 4th with another year of great programs! In the meantime, feel free to visit us at our archives in the Annette Library: Public hours are 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. Mondays [except holidays], and 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Thursdays.

Return Engagement: Sandra Joyce: British Home Children Since the launch of her debut book at Upper Canada Village on September 28, 2011, native Torontonian Sandra Joyce, has given over 90 presentations on British Home Children. A graduate of Ryerson’s Journalism program, she became interested in the British Home Children after finding out from a passenger…

Jim Munroe : Wonderland: A Solvitur Ambulando Mystery An interactive audio story for the iPhone, set in Toronto’s Junction neighbourhood in 1915:  The projectionist of the Wonderland, one of the city’s first movie theatres, makes a grim discovery in the aisle one morning. Heintzman Place resident Jim Munroe will be demonstrating how his audio story…

Larry Sherk: One Hundred Years of Sheridan Nurseries In May 1911 British landscape architects Howard Dunnington-Grubb and his wife Lorrie  settled in Toronto to set up one of Canada’s first landscape architecture firms.   In 1913 they purchased 100 acres of land in Ontario near the village of Sheridan.  An ad in a British journal soon brought…