Annual March 6th Fundraiser

• Virtual Event, emceed by Bruce Bell
• Entertainment included Julie Nesrallah, Rosemary Lawton, The Haunted Walk, and Toronto History Museums
• Trivia, Raffle, Cocktail Demonstration, and virtual Word Cloud
• Old Town Silent Auction

• Richard Fiennes-Clinton shares stories from the Town of York
• Food from St. Lawrence Market vendors
• Old Town Silent Auction

• Bruce Beaton as William Lyon Mackenzie
• The Interpreters
• RSCDS Toronto (Scottish Country Dancers)
• Food from St. Lawrence Market vendors
• Old Town Silent Auction

Christopher Hume, urban affairs columnist
with Rollo Myers, heritage advocate
and Barbara Gray, Manager, City of Toronto Transportation Services
Old Town Silent Auction

Table Presenters:

• Mackenzie House Museum Toronto
• Transit Bricks
• On The Bright Side
• City of Toronto Transportation Services

• Bruce Bell, with Randy Vancourt on piano, spoke on the history of St. Lawrence Hall and of Toronto, at these turning points in Canadian history. 
• A Battle-of-the-Bands performance of music from 1867 and 1967 by Ian Bell, Michelle Rumball, Tom Leighton, and Conrad Kipping
• Old Town Silent Auction

The Flood by Leah-Simone Bowen

• Handwriting Analysis by Edda Manley
• Old Town Silent Auction

• Appledore Productions previewed The Postman
• Old Town Silent Auction

• Jason Wilson and ABMG presented Soldiers of Song: A Tribute to the Dumbells
• Old Town Silent Auction

There was no fundraiser in 2013, as the St. Lawrence Hall was undergoing renovations.

• Peter Meyler, author of A Stolen Life: Searching for Richard Pierpont,
  on the “Coloured Corps” and its contribution during the War of 1812.
• Single Thread Theatre Company premiered Petticoats, Scoundrels and Soldiers

• Brick Road Creations premiered Then and Now: A Poetic Landscape of Toronto
• Performance and workshop of English Country dances by dance mistress Karen Millyard and friends, accompanied by trio Playford’s Pleasure.

• Michael Comstock on Toronto’s 175 years.
• A display of plans for Fort York’s new interpretive centre by the Fort York Guard.
• A performance by Random Roads band.

• Bruce Bell and Richard Fiennes-Clinton in discussion on Toronto’s history.
• Performance by the Fort York Regency Dancers.
• Soprano Aleksandra Balaburska, accompanied by pianist Irene Wong-Montgomery, performed songs popular in the 19th century.
• Refreshments provided by the Culinary Historians of Ontario and George Brown
  College’s students of Applied Food History, featuring “175 Years of Cakes”.

• A performance by the Downtown Alternative School Singers
• Bruce Bell on the performance history of St. Lawrence Hall
• A performance by the St. James’ Cathedral Choir

• Bruce Bell, on Toronto as a colonial outpost to Imperial city during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
• Silent Films: Toronto in the Dawn of Cinema, a program of early footage curated by Candida Paltiel of the Planet in Focus film festival and narrated by Mike Filey.
• Former mayor David Crombie, on some of the challenges of the past few decades.

Bruce Bell and Mike Filey in discussion on the history of St. Lawrence Hall.