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Vanished Beyond the Map: The Mystery of Lost Explorer Hubert Darrell
2025-10-10 19:00 (America/Toronto) | Cameron Hall, 1585 Yonge Street, Toronto
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National bestselling author and professional adventure Adam Shoalts will join us to discuss his expeditions in Canada’s wilderness, including especially his brand new book, Vanished Beyond the Map: The Mystery of Lost Explorer Hubert Darrell. It is the story of a legendary lost explorer who disappeared more than a century ago and Shoalts’s quest to retrace his route to unravel the mystery of his disappearance. This is a Book Launch event and copies of Adam’s books will be available for sale and signing by the author.
BIOGRAPHYAdam Shoalts is a professional adventurer and Westaway Explorer-in-Residence at the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. His expeditions range from mapping rivers to archaeological projects, but Shoalts is best known for his long solo wilderness journeys, including crossing alone nearly 4,000 kilometres of Canada’s Arctic. Named one of the “greatest living explorers” by the CBC and declared “Canada’s Indiana Jones” by the Toronto Star, Shoalts’s latest quest was retracing the route of a lost explorer, the subject of his new latest book Vanished Beyond the Map. His other books include Where the Falcon Flies, The Whisper on the Night Wind, A History of Canada in 10 Maps, and Beyond the Trees: A Journey Alone Across Canada’s Arctic, all of them national bestsellers. He has a PhD from McMaster University in history, and in his free time, enjoys long walks in the woods.

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Battle of Britain: Canadian Airmen in Their Finest Hour
2025-11-07 19:00
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“Never in the field of human conflict…” are Churchill’s words that set the Battle of Britain in the summer of 1940 apart from all others, as the greatest aerial battle in history. As the German Luftwaffe sought to destroy the Royal Air Force, gain air superiority, and invade the British Isles, Commonwealth fighter pilots scrambled from U.K. airfields day after day and flew Hurricane and Spitfire fighter aircraft to thwart Hitler’s plan. They won but paid dearly. Among the 2,937 aircrew in this first test of Allied skill, resilience, and courage, over 100 pilots flew with the “Canada” patch on their shoulder, and another 200 erks (ground crew) kept their fighters in the air. As Churchill continued, never was “so much owed by so many to so few.” Ted Barris has assembled stories of Canadian airmen, ground crew, as well as engineers, aeronautical designers, medical officers and civilians who answered the call and turned back the very real threat of Nazi invasion. In this lecture based on his book, he will tell the story from a Canadian perspective.
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Ted Barris is an award-winning journalist, author, and broadcaster. His writing has regularly appeared in the national press, and magazines as diverse as Air Force, esprit de corps and Zoomer. He has also worked as host/contributor for CBC Radio, NPR and TV Ontario. He taught journalism at Toronto’s Centennial College for 18 years. Barris is the author of 22 bestselling, non-fiction books, many focused on wartime Canada, including The Great Escape: A Canadian Story, which won the 2014 Libris Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award, and books on hockey and music. In 2011, he was one of 19 civilians presented with the Minister of Veterans’ Affairs Commendation. Barris was the recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee Medal and, in 2024, was made a Member of the Order of Canada, “for advancing our understanding of Canadian military history as an acclaimed historical author, journalist and broadcaster.”

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Of Mice and Men … and More: The Evolution of Genetics and Recent Developments in Personalized Medicine
2025-11-28 19:00
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Major developments and scientific innovations have revolutionized the field of clinical genetics from Charles Darwin’s day in the mid nineteenth century to the delivery of personalized medicine in patient care in the twenty-first. In this lecture clinical genetecist Dr. José-Mario Capo-Chichi will lead us through this story: the origin of species, Mendelian genetics, the double-helix structure of DNA, DNA sequencing, animal models and the latest in personalized medicine – ie., using an individual’s unique genetic profile, lifestyle, and environment to tailor disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. There will be many other stops along the way. Buckle up and enjoy the ride.
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José-Mario Capo-Chichi is a clinical geneticist at the Genome Diagnostics Laboratory at University Health Network in Toronto/Canada, an assistant professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology at the University of Toronto and a clinician investigator at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre Research Institute. His clinical and research interests are centered on the use of novel genomic tools to improve the clinical diagnosis and management of patients with acquired and inherited genetic disorders. He helped identify and characterize novel disease causing genes in neurodevelopmental disorders using animal models.

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