FORT YORK NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE
250 Fort York Boulevard
416-392-6907
fortyork@toronto.ca

Underground Railroad: The William Still Story
The life of William Still, "The Father of the Underground Railroad," is captured in this riveting documentary that also explores Canada's role as "Freedom's Land." Tour Fort York and learn about the contribution of early Black settlers in the War of 1812.

Saturday, February 11, 2 p.m.
Regular Admission: Adults: $7.62, Seniors: $3.81, Youth (13-18 yrs.): $3.81, Children (6-12yrs): $2.86, Children 5 and under are free.

MONTGOMERY'S INN
4709 Dundas Street West at Islington Avenue
416-394-8113
montinn@toronto.ca

Finding Freedom: The Joshua Glover Story
Through dramatic first-person storytelling, hear the true story of escaped slave Joshua Glover, who arrived in Etobicoke via the Underground Railroad where he found work at Montgomery's Inn.

$20 plus tax includes refreshments and a tour of the Inn. Pre-registration required.

MACKENZIE HOUSE
82 Bond Street
416-392-6915
machouse@toronto.ca

Saturdays & Sundays in February

The Black Victorians
Visit Mackenzie House and learn more about the early Black community in Toronto, including those who published newspapers. Print a souvenir copy of Mary Ann Shadd Cary's newspaper, The Provincial Freeman, in the re-created 1850's printshop!

Saturday regular admission: Adults $5.71; Seniors/Youth $2.62; Children: $2.38 (plus tax).
Sundays are Pay What You Can.
Group bookings are available: Please call 416-392-6915 to make a booking.

Discussion about English potter and tile designer William de Morgan within the wider context of whether the Arts and Crafts Movement is a modern or an anti-modern movement and why this question is important to craft and design history.
In addition to examining de Morgan’s practice, she will look at contemporary potters and ceramic artists who carry on the tradition of romanticizing the pastoral Arts and Crafts movement.

The War of 1812 and the Battle of York: An Event to Commemorate the War of 1812 will be presented on Wednesday, February 8, 2012 by Senior College, University of Toronto and Fort York National Historic Site to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812.

A limited number of tickets are available exclusively from UofT Tix for $35 each: http://www.uofttix.ca/ or (416) 978-8849. This full-day symposium will take place onsite at Fort York's Blue Barracks. For program details and other information: http://www.1812event.ca or (416) 978-7553.

Joanne Doucette, author of "Pigs, Flowers and Bricks: a history of Leslieville to 1920", illuminates the life of the unofficial Squire of Leslieville from his leaving the Highlands in the bitter times of the Clearances to life as market gardener and tree man extraordinaire in Canada.

Riverdale Branch, Toronto Public Library
Riverdale Adult Program Room
370 Broadview Ave., Toronto (Broadview and Gerrard)
416-393-7720

Uncertain Futures, Imperfect Pasts: An Interactive History Salon
Spadina Museum: Historic House & Gardens
285 Spadina Road
spadina@toronto.ca
416.392.6910
$12 per session or $40 for all four (plus HST)

Tuesday, Nov. 15, 7 to 9 pm
Prohibition Then and Liquor Control in Ontario Today

Speakers: Mariana Valverde, FRSC, Director, U of T Centre of Criminology and Kathy Klas, a Director with the Alcohol and Gambling Commission of Ontario

How is it that Ontario has a system for liquor sales unique in the world? How has that system affected Torontonians since its introduction in 1927? What are the aims of this unique system in Ontario and what does it say about us? This discussion will be introduced by Dr. Mariana Valverde, author of The Age of Light, Soap and Water: Moral Reform in English Canada, 1885-1925 and Diseases of the Will: Alcohol and the Dilemmas of Freedom and Kathy Klas, a Director with the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario.

Uncertain Futures, Imperfect Pasts: An Interactive History Salon
Spadina Museum: Historic House & Gardens
285 Spadina Road
spadina@toronto.ca
416.392.6910
$12 per session or $40 for all four (plus HST)

Sunday, Nov. 13, 2 to 4 pm
The Shape of History: Body Image and Diet in the 1920s and Today
Speaker: Jill Andrew, Bite-me Film Festival

In 1918, Dr. Lulu Hunt Peters' Diet and Health with a Key to the Calories was published, introducing the concept of a calorie restriction to the general public. Hunt Peters also drew firm connections between fatness and moral depravity, sin and even treason. Her ideas proved wildly popular in a culture whose perception of the ideal body was changing rapidly. Society saw an explosion in slimming books and treatises and the creation of a diet industry. Jill Andrew, award-winning journalist and founder/director of Bite-me: the Toronto International Body Image Film & Arts Festival, leads a discussion on the 1920s emergence of the diet industry's effects on what we eat and wear today; what we think is beautiful and healthy; and the connotations around being "skinny" or "fat."

Uncertain Futures, Imperfect Pasts: An Interactive History Salon
Spadina Museum: Historic House & Gardens
285 Spadina Road
spadina@toronto.ca
416.392.6910
$12 per session or $40 for all four (plus HST)

Tuesday, Nov. 8, 7 to 9 pm
Persona: Politics and Private Lives in 20th-Century Canada

Speaker: Author Allan Levine

William Lyon Mackenzie King has often been thought of as Canada's greatest prime minister and its most peculiar. He was insecure, craved flattery, and was prone to fantasy – especially about the Tory conspiracy against him. What would the modern media have made of King's eccentric personality? What kind of balancing act did politicians of the 1920s have to do in contrast to politicians today? Allan Levine is the author of KING: William Lyon Mackenzie King: A Life Guided by the Hand of Destiny, a biography based on 57 years of the personal diaries of Canada's longest serving prime minister. He will lead the discussion on the public versus private life of a politician – how these two faces have changed over the years due to our increasingly invasive media machine and how this balancing act differs for men and women.

Uncertain Futures, Imperfect Pasts: An Interactive History Salon
Spadina Museum: Historic House & Gardens
285 Spadina Road
spadina@toronto.ca
416.392.6910
$12 per session or $40 for all four (plus HST)

Sunday, Nov. 6, 2 to 4 pm
Hell Witches and Pansy Boys: Media, Modernity and Queer Identity in Interwar Toronto and Today

Speaker: Steven Maynard of the Department of History, Queens University