Speakers' Nights are open to the general public.
Thank you for supporting our events through memberships and donations.
Traditionally Speakers' Nights are held on selected Wednesdays 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm. and open to the public.
Zoom Virtual Meeting Times There is a limit of 100 connections. The first 100 people get in.
07:30 - Zoom meeting will open for socializing/connection issues
07:40 - Meeting will start - everyone will be muted
07:40 - Announcements/Introduction
07:45 - Presentation
08:30 - Q&A - you will be invited to unmute your microphones
Zoom might be new to many, but easy to use. Video and Text Long Video includes hosting an event - get together with friends. Way in advance, sign up with Zoom for free and download the needed software. Participants may also set up virtual background. Google and YouTube may help you with this.
Before the session, test your audio and and camera if using one. People may also phone into the Zoom session.
Embrace the opportunity to gain some valuable insight and life lessons from our guest speakers who are based in Oakville and beyond.
Traditionally, our Speaker's Nights are hosted in:February; April; May and November. With COVID, we are offering our members many more Speakers' Nights.
Thank you for supporting our events through memberships and donations.
Traditionally Speakers' Nights are held on selected Wednesdays 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm. and open to the public.
Zoom Virtual Meeting Times There is a limit of 100 connections. The first 100 people get in.
07:30 - Zoom meeting will open for socializing/connection issues
07:40 - Meeting will start - everyone will be muted
07:40 - Announcements/Introduction
07:45 - Presentation
08:30 - Q&A - you will be invited to unmute your microphones
Zoom might be new to many, but easy to use. Video and Text Long Video includes hosting an event - get together with friends. Way in advance, sign up with Zoom for free and download the needed software. Participants may also set up virtual background. Google and YouTube may help you with this.
Before the session, test your audio and and camera if using one. People may also phone into the Zoom session.
Embrace the opportunity to gain some valuable insight and life lessons from our guest speakers who are based in Oakville and beyond.
Traditionally, our Speaker's Nights are hosted in:February; April; May and November. With COVID, we are offering our members many more Speakers' Nights.
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2021. 7:20 pm. – 9:00 pm.
Jim Hill—Senior Manager of Heritage Niagara Parks "Forts in the Niagara area" Jim’s responsibilities include the supervision of historic sites like the Laura Secord Homestead, the Mackenzie Printery, Old Fort Erie, McFarland House and over 100 plaques, markers and monuments along the Niagara River. He is the former Battery Commander of the 10th Field Battery, Royal Canadian Artillery. He lives in Niagara Falls with his wife Jeannie and their children Jack and Emilia. |
Old Fort Erie
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Wednesday January 27, 2021. Special Speaker's Night!
7:30 pm – 9:00 pm. Meredith Leonard and Clair Bennett present: “The Man and the Boy” a short film Meredith and Clair from Halton Regional Services will have a short presentation that accompanies the film itself and provides context. The film was produced by the predecessor to the Region’s Economic Development department, to showcase the wealth of possibilities available to young people in 1960s Halton Region (then County). |
Engineers of Ford Motor Company of Canada at Oakville, Ontario, look over plans of new cars.
Date September 1, 1967
Accession Number
NFB67-15125
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer Ted Grant
Collection CMCP collection
Credit Line
© National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
https://photostories.ca/explore/photostory-455b-making-nations-motor-vehicles
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he film follows a young man, who has just graduated from high school, through a variety of potential careers, while also looking back at his time growing up in the County.
The film was shot in Halton, so there is a good deal of local scenery on display throughout.
The film runs about 26 minutes.
Grimsby, Bronte and Trafalgar Township Historical Society members may join us.
he film follows a young man, who has just graduated from high school, through a variety of potential careers, while also looking back at his time growing up in the County.
The film was shot in Halton, so there is a good deal of local scenery on display throughout.
The film runs about 26 minutes.
Grimsby, Bronte and Trafalgar Township Historical Society members may join us.
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Wednesday Feb 17th 2021. 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm.
Michael Johnson “A History of Canadian Peacekeeping”
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Wednesday, April 14, 2021. 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm.
Abbey Stansfield "Sail through History: the archaeology of the Great Lakes" Sail Through History: Archaeology of the Great Lakes presents the history of shipwrecks in the Great Lakes and how the treasure they possess is not monetary but knowledge. This knowledge represents the people who lived and made their living from the great lakes and shows the danger such a life could possess to the average mariner.
Abbey Stansfield is a graduate of Queen’s University with a BA in Classical History and Archaeology and an MA from the University of Leicester in Museum Studies. She began her career as a historical interpreter at the Laura Secord Homestead where she spent nine years in a living history setting discussing civilian life during the War of 1812. In 2015 she joined the Port Colborne Historical and Marine Museum as the Education Programmer where she developed an interest in marine heritage. Her interest has led to a lot of research into shipwrecks and marine archaeology. |
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Wednesday, April 21, 2021. 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm.
Kim Fullerton “Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation Treaties” See his presentation on our website. A different version is on our YouTube Channel. Kim is a lawyer for Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. He will give a presentation on the Treaties that cover Oakville and the surrounding territory. Kim was called to the Bar in Ontario in 1982. His practice is restricted to representing First Nations and organizations as legal counsel primarily in land claims against Canada and Ontario. To date he has been legal counsel on fifteen settled land claims in Ontario with a total value of hundreds of million dollars and tens of thousands of acres of reserve land. Those settlements include both the largest and second largest Specific Claim Settlements for a single First Nation in the history of claims in Canada. |
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Kim has drafted eleven separate First Nation Trust Agreements, has been retained to redraft several existing First Nation Trust Agreements and has been an appointed Trustee on three separate First Nation Trusts.
From 1993 to 1996 he was Chief Counsel for the Indian Claims Commission. Previously, Kim acted as Senior Solicitor-Native Affairs with Ontario Hydro. Prior to that, Mr. Fullerton acted as Counsel to the Indian Commission of Ontario.
For more information, see Kim’s resume.
From 1993 to 1996 he was Chief Counsel for the Indian Claims Commission. Previously, Kim acted as Senior Solicitor-Native Affairs with Ontario Hydro. Prior to that, Mr. Fullerton acted as Counsel to the Indian Commission of Ontario.
For more information, see Kim’s resume.
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Wednesday May 19, 2021. 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm.
Michelle Vosburgh "Resilient Community: Disease, Epidemics and Pandemics in Port Colborne's past" Oakville and many places across North America had similar challenges to keep people healthy. It wasn't so very long ago that epidemics and even pandemics were a part of everyday life. Port Colborne and North America experiences from the cholera epidemics of the 1830s to the Spanish flu, and beyond is just one example of how many local communities worked together to cope with, and attempt to stop the spread of deadly contagious diseases. Measures like quarantines, isolation, lockdowns and closures were nothing new to them, and were often the most effective way to protect themselves. Michelle Vosburgh works as the Archivist at the L.R. Wilson Archives at the Port Colborne Museum. She is a graduate of McMaster University, where she completed both an M.A. and Ph.D. in History, after undergraduate studies at Brock University. In addition to her work at the archives, she teaches as a part-time professor at Brock in History and Canadian Studies. Her research interests include pre-Confederation Ontario land settlement and agricultural development, and the history of Niagara. In her spare time, she enjoys hiking, bike rides and fibre arts. |
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Wednesday, June 16, 2021. 7:20 pm. – 9:00 pm.
David Cowan, President, Friends of Beaverdams Church Be a Historial Society Member (by joining now). "Beaverdams Church Restoration" Beaverdams church was opened in 1832. Beaverdams was a bustling community until the second Welland Canal was built, around 1880. A large upper area had been cealed off for 140 years. There were many interesting finds. There were nails created from a black smith shop. Some nails were stampled out of cast iron. Another find was a pump organ built in Ontario. It is tough to find replacement parts, eaten by mice.
The foundation was replaced, along with roof and siding. There were many fascinating finds. |
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David Cowan's biography.
- Started as an English teacher at the old Niagara Falls Collegiate and eventually spent 18 years as a Head of Guidance at two of the Niagara South Board of Education's high schools.
- Organist and was Director of Music at First United Church in St. Catharines for 25 years, retiring in 2001.
- Spent 10 years on the National Council of the Royal Canadian College of Organists as Chair of the Competitions Committee.
- Fifth generation Thorold resident.
- Belonged to the Friends of the Beaverdams Church since 2011 and have been President since 2014.
Speakers from previous years
“THE DAMBUSTERS - May 1943”
Tim Speed
Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum.
"The Road to Marylake”
Kelly Mathews
Polar Explorers
Ray Peacock
The Battle of Quebec September 13, 1759 - Thirty Minutes & Two Dead Generals and the fate of North America Changed
Alan Ellis
The Forgotten Squadron – the Royal Navy on Lake Ontario, during the war of 1812
Gurth M. Pretty
HMS Psyche Canadian Maritime Heritage Society
OH CANADA! Our Home and Inventive Land!
Professor Mark Rector
Professor of Electronics Engineering
Folly or Fabulous Restoring an 1830s home
Shannon Kyles
www.ontarioarchitecture.com
An Approach to Heritage Retrofitting & Restoration
Ms. Geri Tino
ATA Architects, Oakville
Eaton Hall: Pride of King Township
Kelly Mathews
Opening Up Halton County - Mails and posts of Halton from 1775 to 1918”
Mr. David Hobden
They Left Us Everything, a touching story of loss and legacies in Oakville.
Plum Johnson
In the Footsteps of the Group of Seven
Jim & Sue Waddington
Preserving your or your family’s memories
Dr. Dustin Galer
Association of Personal Historians
A history of North American Indigenous
Paul Racher
Ontario Archaeological Society
“THE DAMBUSTERS - May 1943”
Tim Speed
Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum.
"The Road to Marylake”
Kelly Mathews
Polar Explorers
Ray Peacock
The Battle of Quebec September 13, 1759 - Thirty Minutes & Two Dead Generals and the fate of North America Changed
Alan Ellis
The Forgotten Squadron – the Royal Navy on Lake Ontario, during the war of 1812
Gurth M. Pretty
HMS Psyche Canadian Maritime Heritage Society
OH CANADA! Our Home and Inventive Land!
Professor Mark Rector
Professor of Electronics Engineering
Folly or Fabulous Restoring an 1830s home
Shannon Kyles
www.ontarioarchitecture.com
An Approach to Heritage Retrofitting & Restoration
Ms. Geri Tino
ATA Architects, Oakville
Eaton Hall: Pride of King Township
Kelly Mathews
Opening Up Halton County - Mails and posts of Halton from 1775 to 1918”
Mr. David Hobden
They Left Us Everything, a touching story of loss and legacies in Oakville.
Plum Johnson
In the Footsteps of the Group of Seven
Jim & Sue Waddington
Preserving your or your family’s memories
Dr. Dustin Galer
Association of Personal Historians
A history of North American Indigenous
Paul Racher
Ontario Archaeological Society