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:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD 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 END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20241108T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20241108T190000 DTSTAMP:20260601T220243 CREATED:20241023T195734Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T211759Z UID:1530-1731092400-1731092400@ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com SUMMARY:By The Ghost Light: Wars\, Memory\, and Families DESCRIPTION:Donations at the door or when you watch online are voluntary and only partially cover program costs. If you agree that continuing education is worth the investment\, we’d love to hear from you.\n \n DONATE NOW\n \n \n \n \n \n A new browser tab will open the Yorkminster Park Canada Helps donation page\, please select YP Speakers Series from the dropdown menu.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Lecture Description : R. H. Thomson’s book By The Ghost Light: Wars\, Memory and Families is a personal\, emotional and intensely engaging exploration of how the stories we tell affect the wars we fight. On publication in November 2023\, it was on the best seller list for Canadian non-fiction. In this lecture\, R. H. Thomson will talk about the book\, the family stories on which is based and about “The World Remembers” WWI memory project. \nBiography : R.H. has appeared in film and theatre across Canada\, as Matthew Cuthbert in Anne With An E\, and as Marshall McLuhan in The Message by Jason Sherman. An advocate for the arts\, R.H. has also worked on many history/arts projects. He built The World Remembers-Le Monde Se Souvient\, an international World War One commemoration exhibit now installed at war museums in Canada and the United States\, theworldremembers.ca. He is a Member of the Order of Canada and was awarded the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n ← Previous Speaker\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join our email listJoin our email list to get an email advising you of our next event\, as well as a reminder email thirty minutes before each event with a link to watch online\, for those unable to attend in person. \n \n \n \n \n \n Success!\n \n \n \n \n First Name\n \n \n \n \n Last Name\n \n \n \n \n Email\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Send Me A Reminder\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Donations at the door or when you watch online are voluntary and only partially cover program costs. If you agree that continuing education is worth the investment\, we’d love to hear from you.\n \n DONATE NOW\n \n \n \n \n \n A new browser tab will open the Yorkminster Park Canada Helps donation page\, please select YP Speakers Series from the dropdown menu. URL:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/event/by-the-ghost-light-wars-memory-and-families/ LOCATION:Cameron Hall\, 1585 Yonge Street\, Toronto ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/RH-Thomson-2024_2025-YP-Speakers-Series_Web-Banners-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20241120T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20241120T210000 DTSTAMP:20260601T220244 CREATED:20241106T184320Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250116T141650Z UID:1599-1732129200-1732136400@ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com SUMMARY:Sir John A. Macdonald in History and Fiction: DESCRIPTION:Donations at the door or when you watch online are voluntary and only partially cover program costs. If you agree that continuing education is worth the investment\, we’d love to hear from you.\n \n DONATE NOW\n \n \n \n \n \n A new browser tab will open the Yorkminster Park Canada Helps donation page\, please select YP Speakers Series from the dropdown menu.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sir John A. Macdonald & The Apocalyptic Year 1885 will be published by Sutherland House Books in November 2024.  “In this fascinating and authoritative study of a skilled politician at the peak of his powers\, political historian Patrice Dutil shows how Macdonald navigated persistent threats to public order\, anchored the stability of his government\, and ensured the future of his still fragile nation. What emerges is a compelling portrait of a man who\, notwithstanding his personal failings and the sins of his times\, was the most enlightened and constructive public figure of early Canadian History.” (from the dust jacket.)  Professor Dutil will be joined on stage by novelists Gordon Henderson and Roy MacSkimming\, both of whom have written historical fiction featuring Macdonald\, for a conversation about Macdonald’s central place in Canadian history\, the challenges he faced and overcame in holding Canada together\, and how fiction can help inform our understanding of history. The panel will be led by CIHE board member Lynne Golding\, herself the author of an historical fiction trilogy. \nBIOGRAPHIES \nPatrice Dutil is the author or editor of a dozen books\, a frequent commentator on policy and political issues\, and the host of over 100 podcasts in the Canadian history series\, “Witness to Yesterday.” He is a professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University). He founded and for five years edited The Literary Review of Canada and served as president of the Champlain Society for seven years. He is a senior fellow at the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History at the University of Toronto and a senior fellow at the Macdonald—Laurier Institute. Among his books are Ballots and Brawls: The 1867 Canadian General Election\, Prime Ministerial Power in Canada: it’s Origins under Macdonald\, Laurier and Borden\, and Macdonald at 200: New Perspectives and Legacies (edited with Roger Hall). \nIn a fifty-year career in journalism Gordon Henderson has been a parliamentary correspondent\, a current affairs field producer and an award-winning documentary producer. He’s directed films from Afghanistan to the Arctic\, Beijing to Buenos Aires\, and his company\, 90th Parallel Productions\, has produced more than a hundred documentaries. Henderson was a senior series producer of the CBC/Radio-Canada series Canada: A People’s History and taught in the Journalism Department at Toronto’s Ryerson (now Metropolitan) University. He is semi-retired and writing. His first novel\, Man in the Shadows was built around the assassination of Irish-Canadian politician D’Arcy McGee. His second\, Out of the Shadows\, co-written with Métis writer David Bouchard and published in September 2024\, takes place during the Red River Resistance in Manitoba. Both feature Sir John A. Macdonald. \nRoy MacSkimming is the author of nine books\, including the historical novels Macdonald\, a Globe & Mail best book of the year\, and Laurier in Love. His study of Canadian book publishing\, The Perilous Trade: Publishing Canada’s Authors\, was also a Globe & Mail best book and finalist for the National Business Book Award. MacSkimming has spent his working life in and around the book industry as author\, editor\, publisher\, and books editor of the Toronto Star. Set during Sir John A.’s final months\, Macdonald\, published in 2015\, portrays a lion in winter fighting for his life and legacy. Peter C. Newman hailed it as “a singularly well-crafted novel that deserves top place among the books on Canadian history that matter.”  MacSkimming is finishing a new novel\, The Cure for Love\, a prequel to Macdonald. \nLynne Golding is the author of the historical fiction series\, “Beneath the Alders.”  A graduate of the University of Toronto and Queen’s University\, she is a senior partner at the international law firm Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP where she co-leads their health law practice group. Lynne lives in Brampton\, Ontario\, and has three grown children. Beneath the Alders is inspired by stories told to Golding by her great aunt\, Jessie Roberts Current\, born in Brampton\, Ontario in 1903. Those stories\, supplemented by extensive research led to the creation of three novels about life in small-town Canada: The Innocent (1907 – July 1914); The Beleaguered (1914 – 1918) and The Mending (1918 – 1931). Golding is an advisory board member of the Canadian Institute for Historical Education and gave a lecture in the Yorkminster Park Speakers Series in January\, 2022. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ← Previous Speaker\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join our email listJoin our email list to get an email advising you of our next event\, as well as a reminder email thirty minutes before each event with a link to watch online\, for those unable to attend in person. \n \n \n \n \n \n Success!\n \n \n \n \n First Name\n \n \n \n \n Last Name\n \n \n \n \n Email\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Send Me A Reminder\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Donations at the door or when you watch online are voluntary and only partially cover program costs. 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URL:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/event/sir-john-a-macdonald-in-history-and-fiction/ LOCATION:Cameron Hall\, 1585 Yonge Street\, Toronto ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/John-A-mac-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20241129T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20241129T190000 DTSTAMP:20260601T220244 CREATED:20241023T204405Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T233935Z UID:1544-1732906800-1732906800@ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com SUMMARY:Marsha Faubert in conversation with Christopher Moore about her book\, Wanda’s War: An Untold Story of Nazi Europe\, Forced Labour and a Canadian Immigration Scandal DESCRIPTION:Donations at the door or when you watch online are voluntary and only partially cover program costs. If you agree that continuing education is worth the investment\, we’d love to hear from you.\n \n DONATE NOW\n \n \n \n \n \n A new browser tab will open the Yorkminster Park Canada Helps donation page\, please select YP Speakers Series from the dropdown menu.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Lecture Description : In Wanda’s War\, Marsha Faubert introduces a dimension of the Second World War many Canadians have rarely contemplated. Stories of Canadians on the battlefield\, the struggles of the home front\, even the experience of Britons under bombing\, are well known. But many of today’s Canadians trace their roots to the postwar migration of refugees from Eastern Europe and the Baltic states\, whose war experiences remain buried. \nWanda’s War reconstructs the lives of Faubert’s parents-in-law\, Wanda and Casey\, and the lesser-known events of the war that shaped their lives. With not one\, but two occupations of their homeland in Poland’s eastern borderlands\, both were torn from their homes and deported to forced labour — one to Nazi Germany\, the other to subarctic Russia. An “astonishing yet uplifting addition to the great body of literature of the Second World War” (David Marks Shribman)\, Wanda’s War speaks to the broader refugee experience that has unfolded globally since WWII and\, tragically\, continues today. \nHistorian Christopher Moore will join Faubert in a wide-ranging conversation about the book’s themes — the geopolitics of eastern Europe\, gulags and slave labour camps\, postwar displacement and immigration\, and the politics of memory. \nBiography : Marsha Faubert is a lawyer and writer of narrative nonfiction. She began her legal career as a litigator\, and later worked in various roles in the administrative justice system in Ontario. Her first book\,\nWanda’s War — An Untold Story of Nazi Europe\, Forced Labour\, and a Canadian Immigration Scandal\, raises themes of memory and silence\, justice and forgiveness through the lens of the wartime and immigration experiences of her husband’s parents. She is in the early stages of a new project which will examine the history and legacy of environmental injustice in her hometown of Sarnia\, known to some as Canada’s Chemical Valley.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ← Previous Speaker\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join our email listJoin our email list to get an email advising you of our next event\, as well as a reminder email thirty minutes before each event with a link to watch online\, for those unable to attend in person. \n \n \n \n \n \n Success!\n \n \n \n \n First Name\n \n \n \n \n Last Name\n \n \n \n \n Email\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Send Me A Reminder\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Donations at the door or when you watch online are voluntary and only partially cover program costs. If you agree that continuing education is worth the investment\, we’d love to hear from you.\n \n DONATE NOW\n \n \n \n \n \n A new browser tab will open the Yorkminster Park Canada Helps donation page\, please select YP Speakers Series from the dropdown menu. URL:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/event/marsha-faubert-in-conversation-with-christopher-moore-about-her-book-wandas-war-an-untold-story-of-nazi-europe-forced-labour-and-a-canadian-immigration-scandal/ LOCATION:Cameron Hall\, 1585 Yonge Street\, Toronto ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Marsha-Faubert-2024_2025-YP-Speakers-Series_Web-Banners.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR