Annual General Meeting
The Town of York Annual General Meeting takes place each spring in a site of heritage significance. Following the business of the AGM, the society enjoys special guest speakers and presentations.
2024
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
Campbell House Museum
The Town of York Historical Society will hold its 41st Annual General Meeting on Wednesday, July 17, in-person at Campbell House Museum. Doors will open at 6pm and remarks will begin at 6:30pm
Following the business meeting, there will be a special presentation, “The Toronto Circus Riot: A True Tale of Violence, Corruption and Clowns” by featured guest, Adam Bunch.
FREE for TYHS members, $20 for non-members. Memberships and membership renewals are available HERE or with your ticket purchase.
How to attend:
This is an in-person event that will commence at Campbell House Museum located at 160 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario, M5H 3H3. Attendance is free for TYHS members and $20 for non-members. Please select the correct ticket type when registering. Memberships and renewals are available at TownofYork.com or can be purchased alongside your ticket.
Registration is mandatory as spots are limited! In-person attendance is highly encouraged. For those who are unable to participate in-person, please email info@tos1stpo.com to request a Zoom link.
Documents:
- Draft 2023 Audited Financial Statements
- 2023 AGM Minutes
- 2024 Agenda
- Draft 2024 By-Laws
- 2024 Proxy Notice
If you would like to renew your membership in the Town of York Historical Society, or become a member, you can do so with this online form (a tax receipt will be issued before the next tax year), via the shop at TownofYork.com or in person at Toronto’s First Post Office.
Past AGMs:
2023
Location: Online, via Zoom.
Presentation: Richard Fiennes-Clinton “Victory Wreaths & Merry Meetings: Society, Sensationalism, and the heyday of Toryism in the Town of York.”
2022
Location: Online, via Zoom.
Presentation: Dr. Carl Benn, Professor and Department of History Chair at Toronto Metropolitan University, on Mohawk Chief John Norton and the Indigenous Great Lakes, 1780s-1820s.
2021
Location: Online, via Zoom.
Presentation: Ellen Flowers, Manager of Marketing and Communications at the Elgin and Winter Garden Theater Centre, on the theater centre and its history.
2020
Location: Online, via Zoom.
Presentation: Adam Bunch, Author of The Toronto Book of Love.
2019
Location: The Redwood Theatre, 1300 Gerrard St. East
Presentation: Adam Bunch, Author of The Toronto Book of the Dead
2018
Location: Campbell House Museum
Welcome by Liz Driver, Director/Curator, Campbell House
Presentation: Dima Cook, EVOQ Architecture
2017
Sheldon Godfrey Award Winner: Rollo Myers
Presentation: Allan Penning, YPT’s Director of Development, gave a talk on the history of the building, and lead a tour of the theatre.
2016
Sheldon Godfrey Award Winner: Judith McErval
Presentation: Richard Fiennes-Clinton, author of Muddy York: A History of Toronto Until 1834
2015
Location: St. Matthews Lawn Bowling Club
Sheldon Godfrey Award Winner: Elizabeth Elliot
Presentation: Bruce Allen Kopytek, author of Eaton’s: The Trans-Canada Store
2014
Location: Little Trinity Annex
Sheldon Godfrey Award Winner: Alec Keefer
Presentation: Stewart Boden and Samantha Cutrara from the Archives of Ontario on
Dear Sadie: Love, Lives
2013
Location: iQ Lounge, The Dineen Building
Sheldon Godfrey Award Winner: Clayton Smith
Presentation: Maureen Jennings on Whirlygigs, Diddies and Knee-Tremblers: Vulgar Talk in Victorian Canada
2012
Location: Meeting House, Riverdale Farm
Sheldon Godfrey Award Winner: Sheldon Godfrey
Presentation: Susan Spencer of Spencer’s Mercantile on Women in the War of 1812
2011
Location: Arts & Letters Club
Sheldon Godfrey Award Winner: Margaret McBurney
Presentation: Margaret McBurney on the history of the Arts & Letters Club, and a tour of the Club
2010
Location: Church of the Holy Trinity
Sheldon Godfrey Award Winner: Stephen Otto
Presentation: Jennifer Phipps and Barbara Worthy in a one-act play, A Chat with Miss Chicky
2009
Location: Campbell House Museum
Sheldon Godfrey Award Winner: Peggy Kurtin
Presentation: A screening of the Cinefocus Canada Production, C.W. Jefferys, Picturing Canada, and a tour of Campbell House
2008
Location: The Elgin Lounge in the Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre
Presentation: A tour of the Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre led by Richard Fiennes-Clinton
2007
Location: Enoch Turner Schoolhouse
Presentation: Sally Gibson on her book Inside Toronto: Urban Interiors 1880s to 1920s
2006
Location: 1 King St. W. Boardroom
Presentation: Bruce Bell on James Austin and the Dominion Bank
2005
Location: 97 George St.
Presentation: Joan Winearls on “Mapping Toronto’s First Century”
2004
Location: 97 George St.
Presentation: Bruce Bell on “The Walls Around Us”
2003
Location: St. James Cathedral Parish Hall
Presentation: Sheldon Godfrey on “Raised from the Ashes: Toronto’s First Post Office reconstruction and reopening in 1983”