Toronto Workers' History Project

Workers Make History

Events

Black History Month with TWHP (2025)

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Book Launch – The Left in Power: Bob Rae’s NDP and the Working Class.

Book Launch Wednesday, February 19th, 2025 @ 7:00 PM (ET) Steelworkers Hall | 25 Cecil St. Join author Steven High and special guests for the launch of The Left in Power: Bob Rae's NDP and the Working Class. Based on extensive archival research and interviews with NDP...

Tony Leah: The Truth

Tony Leah: The Truth Tuesday, January 14th, 2025 @ 7:30 PM (ET) Immediately following our AGM at 7:00 Join us as Tony Leah, longtime union activist and member of Local 222 in Oshawa, discusses his fascinating new book on the strike of 1937: THE TRUTH: About the ’37...

Annual General Membership Meeting

AGM: Join the TWHP Executive Tuesday, January 14th, 2025 @ 7:00 PM (ET) Immediately before our AGM at 7:00 TWHP is always looking for new recruits to join our Executive Committee – people with great ideas and good connections to help build our programs. A commitment...

Labour’s Antiques Road Show (2024)

BENEATH THE SUN: A PUBLIC CELEBRATION OF CAROLE CONDÉ

Join us for a public celebration of artist Carole Condé (1940 – 2024) on Saturday, November 9, 2024, 2 – 5 pm Location: A Space Main Gallery Exhibit Runs: November 9 – January 2, 2025Carole Condé was a visual artist who, along with partner and collaborator Karl...

Noronic Disaster

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Vincenzo Pietropaolo: Toronto Through an Activist’s Lens

Vincenzo Pietropaolo has been a dedicated chronicler of Toronto for more than fifty years. In 2023, he published a landmark book called Toronto as Community: Fifty Years of Photographs. The photographs are grouped around 40 short essays that explore Vince’s particular...

A Vist To Todmorden Mills

The History of Workers in the Don Valley Todmorden Mills Heritage Museum and Arts Centre Location: 67 Pottery Road Date: Sunday 29 September at 2 pm Way back in the early 19th century, a tiny industrial community grew up on the east bank of the Don River, the village...

Unveiling the Queer Italian-Canadian Experience

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Preserving and Promoting the History of Toronto’s Working People

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The Toronto Workers History Project (TWHP) is a large group of workers, unionists, professors, students, artists, teachers, librarians, educators, researchers, community activists, and retirees dedicated to the preservation and promotion of the history of working people in Toronto.

We are committed to bringing to light the experiences of working people and their contributions as individuals and collectively to the building of this city, in the home, in the paid workplace, and in the community.