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Love Letters Across the Colour Line: Race and Romance in 1940s Toronto
Video recording now available. Scarborough author, the award-winning Sheila White will give an illustrated talk about her biographical novel, The Letters: Postmark Prejudice in Black and White. Drawn from diary accounts, familial correspondence, photos, and artefacts, the story revolves around a community’s opposition in the 1940s to the interracial courtship and marriage of the author’s white…
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WTJHS Welcomes Back Chris Higgins for a Talk Based on His New Novel: The Gaol Carpenter’s Diary
Video recording now available. Author and historian Chris Higgins brings 19th-century Toronto vividly to life in his new novel, The Gaol Carpenter’s Diary—a story grounded in true events, real locations, and the city’s uneasy relationship with justice, faith, and redemption. Told through the eyes of an Irish immigrant carpenter who builds gallows for a living, the…
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Growing Up in the Shacklands
Video recording now available. Gary Christie was born in 1951 and lived his childhood in the St. Clair Avenue/ Old Weston Road area in his formative years. Through this presentation he will talk about his family roots that comprised the cultural community in the mid 1900’s and his early school experiences at General Mercer Public School.…
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Back by Popular Demand! Haunted Junction Pub Crawl
We’re thrilled to be hosting Haunted Junction Pub Crawl events once again–this time around with four dates to choose from. Join us and Junction historian and veteran tour guide Neil Ross for a night of spooky tales from the Junction’s past, told in some of the neighbourhood’s favourite watering holes. 📍 Location: See-Scape, 347 Keele Street🕒 Start time: 7:00…