BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//YP Speakers Series - ECPv6.16.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:YP Speakers Series X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for YP Speakers Series REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250926T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250926T190000 DTSTAMP:20260708T074100 CREATED:20250904T185255Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250905T140338Z UID:2226-1758913200-1758913200@ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com SUMMARY:Writing History: A Conversation Between Two Storytellers DESCRIPTION:Donations at the door or when you watch online are voluntary and only partially cover program costs. 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An audience Q&A session will follow their discussion. This event is co-sponsored by the Canadian Institute for Historical Education\, www.CIHE.ca. \nBIOGRAPHIES \nCharlotte Gray is a non-fiction author based in Ottawa who has written twelve bestsellers of biography and popular history. Her most recent book is Passionate Mothers\, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt. She is also the author of Sisters in the Wilderness; the Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill\, The Massey Murder and Reluctant Genius: Alexander Graham Bell and the Passion for Invention. Charlotte has served as chair of Canada’s National History Society\, and has won the Pierre Berton Award for popularizing Canadian history. She has also chaired the Art Canada Institute board and is vice-president of the Sir Winston Churchill Society of Ottawa. Born in England and a graduate of Oxford and the LSE\, Charlotte teaches at Carleton University\, holds five honorary degrees\, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a member of the Order of Canada. \nCrime fiction writer Maureen Jennings was born in the UK and now lives in Toronto. She has four ongoing book series\, each set in a different era. The first with Detective William Murdoch\, is set in late Victorian Toronto. These books were adapted for television and Murdoch Mysteries\, now in its eighteenth season\, is shown in over one hundred territories around the world. Her second series features Christine Morris\, a contemporary British criminal profiler\, and a third\, with Detective Tom Tyler\, is set in Britain during World War Two. Her most recent series returns to pre-war Toronto in the 1930s: The Paradise Café series features a female Private Investigator named Charlotte Frayne. In 2024 she was awarded the Grand Master award by Crime Writers of Canada. 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