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The Pickering Township Historical Society is a Nonprofit Organization looking to share their passion

Become a member of the Pickering Township Historical Society.
-Receive Pathmastesr, a semi-annual newsletter and research publication.
-Receive Timelines, published autumn and spring with the schedule of upcoming General Meeting dates and program speakers.
-Join in the field trips and excursions to regional historic sites. Membership fees:
-Individual $25
-Student $5
-Family $30
-Life $200

03/04/2025

Information on our upcoming March meeting can be found on our new Face Book page:
The Pickering Township Historical Society.

02/14/2025

If you are looking for current information, please go to our new Face Book page:
The Pickering Township Historical Society

Our upcoming meetings and information will be posted there.

09/05/2024

Pickering Township Historical Society is proud to announce its 2024 program.
The first Fall General Meeting will take place on Tuesday evening, September 10, in our usual meeting place - the auditorium of the Central Pickering Library. The meeting will begin at 7:00 pm – doors open at 6:30 pm. Our guest speaker, Mr. Bruce Clark, the Surveyor General of the province of Ontario, will tell us about the process involved and the difficulties encountered in surveying the province for settlement in the 18th century, with particular emphasis on the original survey of Pickering Township carried out in the 1790’s.

06/06/2024

June 11, 2024 PTHS general meeting.

"Painted Out of the Picture: The Wives of the Group of Seven"

While the husbands received acclaim for their contributions to Canadian art, the wives of the Group of Seven were largely overlooked. This talk, led by author/curator Angie Littlefield, sheds light on the significant roles these women played in shaping their husbands' careers while also emphasizing their agency in carving out meaning in their own lives.

Author/Curator Angie Littlefield has authored three books about Tom Thomson. Her most recent work, Tom Thomson's Fine Kettle of Friends, was shortlisted for the Whistler Independent Book Award in 2021. Additionally, she has written articles and curated exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany, and the Lonsdale Gallery in Toronto.

Meetings are held in the auditorium of the Pickering Central Library. Doors open at 6:00p.m. It's free and everyone is welcome.

05/10/2024

Please join the PTHS on May 14 in the auditorium of the Pickering Central Library
for a very interesting talk by Arlene Gehmacher as she reflects on the ROM's recently-completed "watercolour project". She will share her insight into the impetus of the acquisition of such works and present specific examples, and consider the approaches taken to collect and interpret historical pictures. Doors open at 6:30 and starts at 7:00 p.m.,

Arlene Gehmacher is an Art Historian specializing in imagery of Canada from the 18th century to the present, primarily in the visual idioms of Western European art. She studies "Canada" as a subject in its social context, in terms of production, critical reception, institutional histories and display strategies, as a means to address how identities and historical narratives from national to personal levels are articulated and communicated.

Arlene is cross-appointed as Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Toronto. Since 2003 she has taught her seminar course "Collecting Canada", which using the ROM's holdings, focuses on practical and theoretical aspects of the collecting of "Canadiana" imagery.

04/05/2024

The next meeting of the Pickering Township Historical Society is on Tuesday April 9 at the Pickering main Library in the auditorium. Doors open at 6:30, everyone is welcome and it's free.

Peter Vronsky is a Canadian author, filmmaker, and investigative historian. He holds a Ph.D. in criminal justice history and espionage in international relations from the University of Toronto. He is the author of several bestselling books and has worked professionally in the motion picture and television industry as a producer and cinematographer in the field of documentary production and news broadcasting with CNN, CTV, CBC, and other global television networks in North America and overseas. His book, Ridgeway: The American Fenian Invasion and the 1866 Battle that Made Canada, is the definitive history of Canada’s first modern battle—the Battle of Ridgeway fought against Irish American Fenian insurgents
who invaded across the border from the United States on the eve of Canadian Confederation shortly after the American Civil War. He currently lectures at Toronto Metropolitan University’s History Department.

03/09/2024

The Pickering Township Historical Society welcomes members and guests to our first exciting meeting of 2024 on Tuesday March 12 at 7:00 pm. Our guest speaker, Lucy E.M. Black will discuss, inter alia, the relevance of historical research involved in writing her novel “The Brickworks”.

Lucy Black will present a peek at some of the historical background that went into The Brickworks including a brief history of brickmaking, the fall of the Tay Bridge in Scotland in 1879, a little about bridge construction, and the significance of progressivist ideology and its shaping power on the world we live in. Hear how research-rabbit holes informed the text and took the author to Saskatchewan and Scotland to complete research.

The meeting will be held at the auditorium of the Pickering Central Library on Tuesday March 12 commencing promptly at 7:00 pm Doors open at 6:30 pm and is free to all. Please feel free to bring friends and neighbours.

03/02/2024

Pickering Township Historical Society Spring 2024 Schedule of speakers:

March 12 Lucy E.M. Black, “The Brickworks and the Relevance of Historical Fiction”
Lucy Black presents a peek at some of the research that went into The Brickworks including a brief history of brickmaking, the fall of the Tay Bridge in Scotland in 1879, a little about bridge construction, and the significance of progressivist ideology and its shaping power on the world we live in. Hear how research rabbit holes informed the text and took the author to Saskatchewan and Scotland to complete research.

April 9 Peter Vronsky, “The Battle of Ridgeway’
The Battle of Ridgeway in June 1866 was Canada’s first modern battle and where Canadian soldiers first fell in combat fighting for Canada. Yet the battle was completely forgotten by the 20th century and no major book had been written about it since 1910, until Peter Vronsky made it the subject of his doctoral dissertation at the University of Toronto in 2010, which Penguin Books published. See Vronsky’s website: www.ridgewaybattle.ca.

May 14 Arlene Gehmacher, “The Image as Document: Stories from Canada’s 19th Century Past”
Arlene Gehmacher, L.R. Wilson Curator of Canadian Art and Culture at the Royal Ontario Museum, will be reflecting on the ROM’s recently completed “watercolour project”. She will be considering the impetus of the acquisition of such works, and presenting specific examples, as well as considering approaches taken to collect and interpret historical pictures.

June 11 Angie Littlefield, “Painted Out of the Picture: The Wives of the Group of Seven”
While the husbands received acclaim for their contributions to Canadian art, the wives of the Group of Seven were largely overlooked. This talk, led by author/curator Angie Littlefield, sheds light on the significant roles these women played in shaping their husbands’ careers while also emphasizing their agency in carving out meaning in their own lives.

Schedule of General Meetings
PTHS meetings are held on the second Tuesday of each month, March through June, and September through November, in the auditorium of the Pickering Central Library. The doors open at 7:00 p.m. General meetings are free and open to all.
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02/09/2024

This is outside of Pickering but we've posted this in case anyone might be interested in this upcoming talk.

10/06/2023

October 10, 2023 meeting
Jerry Amernic, “The Seneca Village on the Rouge River”
General Meeting of the Pickering Township Historical Society for Tuesday, 10 October 2023, 7:00 p.m.
Jerry Amernic, a Toronto author who writes historical novels, and is a crusader for preserving history, writes about heroes who help to tell us about our past. His engaging presentations are full
of historical fact, intrigue and anecdotes. He explores the stories, actions and issues around many an unsung hero—and why history is important and should be preserved.
For tonight’s presentation, Amernic will be sharing his research and knowledge about the Seneaca village on the Rouge River. Years ago, he wrote about discoveries made on the site of old Seneca
villages in the Toronto area. The two villages were on the Humber and Rouge rivers. This talk will focus on the latter.
Amernic has been a newspaper reporter and columnist, magazine writer, college writing teacher, and media consultant. Some of the wide-ranging subjects of his books include baseball great Babe
Ruth, the last living survivor of the Holocaust, and the Qumran archaeologist who made a dramatic discovery in the Holy Land.
NOTE: The meeting will be held in the auditorium of the Pickering Central Library. Doors will open at 6:30, and the meeting will begin at 7:00 p.m. General meetings of the PTHS are free and open to all

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