Nov 6, 2023 | Event, Events & Presentations
TWHP Presents Davy The Punk Join us for a lively evening with esteemed Canadian folksinger, composer and author Bob Bossin Bob will discuss Davy the Punk, his award-winning book about his father’s life in Toronto’s gambling Underworld of the 1930s and ‘40s. Event...
Oct 5, 2023 | Event, Events & Presentations
TWHP presents IN THE STREETS Historian Ian Radforth will talk about his new book, EXPRESSIVE ACTSCelebrations and Demonstrations in the Streets of Victorian Toronto In nineteenth-century Toronto, people took to the streets to express their jubilation on special...
Sep 13, 2023 | Event, Events & Presentations, Video
Recording Join us for a Live Zoom Event! Tuesday, September 19th, 7 PM (ET) Join us Tuesday, September 19th, at 7:00 PM (ET) for an exciting and informative Zoom presentation exploring Graphic Histories. Topics include: The history of labour comics/graphic histories,...
Aug 28, 2023 | Oral History Project, Video
Aug 21, 2023 | Oral History Project, Video
David Rapaport, an activist in the Ontario Public Service Employees Union, is the author of No Justice, No Peace: the 1996 OPSEU strike against the Harris Government in Ontario. Rapaport joined the Ontario government as an IT specialist in 1984, and served on the...
