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Snatched! The Peculiar Kidnapping of Beer Tycoon John Labatt
Wed May 20, 2020 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Location: North York Central LibraryIn 1934, fifty-three-year-old beer tycoon John Sackville Labatt was kidnapped from his Lake Huron summer home and held ransom for three days. His captors, a group of desperate ex-rumrunners, were hoping for a big payday. Auth...
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Answering the Call of the Wild in Alice Munro's "Meneseteung"
Mon May 11, 2020 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Deer ParkAlice Munro's "Meneseteung" is one of her later stories ("Friend of My Youth," 1990) bearing the richness and complexity of a novel. This discussion entails surveying the multiple instances in which the role of the "wild" -...
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Cancelled: History of Canadian Women Pilots and Other Airborne Superstars
Fri Apr 24, 2020 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Location: BrookbanksDue to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, this event has been cancelled. While we're working to reschedule as many events as possible, no new dates have currently been determined. *** It took 100 years from...
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Richard Bell on Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery
Tue Jun 16, 2020 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Location: RunnymedeAuthor and Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland, Richard Bell, shares his new book "Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and their Astonishing Odyssey Home." "Stolen" is a gripping and true st...
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Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor and Environmentalism
Mon May 25, 2020 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: North York Central LibraryThe realities of everyday middle-class life in Elizabethan England are closely reflected in The Merry Wives of Windsor. These realities were reshaped by sixteenth-century changes in weather patterns, a new economic ethos of m...
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Cancelled: Kate Kirkpatrick: Becoming Beauvoir
Tue Apr 21, 2020 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Toronto Reference LibraryDue to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, this event has been cancelled. While we're working to reschedule as many events as possible, no new dates have currently been determined *** Kate Kirkpatrick discuss...
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The Five Biggest Investment Mistakes (And How to Avoid Them)
Thu May 21, 2020 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Mount PleasantIf you want to learn how to become a successful investor, find someone who already is a successful investor and model their behavior. Why try to reinvent the wheel? A part of this process is avoiding the five most common mist...
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CANCELLED: Croisée des mots
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm on recurring dates listed below
Location: YorkvilleDue to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, this event has been cancelled. While we're working to reschedule as many events as possible, no new dates have currently been determined. ***...
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Richard Powers' The Overstory
Mon Jun 01, 2020 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Pape/DanforthWhat might it mean to really listen to the plants, animals, water, soil and air? Richard Powers' 2018 Pulitzer Prize winning novel, "The Overstory," tells the story of a handful of people who learn how to see and hear the vas...
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Naming Trees with L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables
Mon May 04, 2020 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: St. LawrenceAnne may be identified as being "of" the house, an important space of belonging for the orphan. Yet, the various trees and elements of nature on which she focuses so keenly during her first ride from the train station - as w...