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You are cordially invited to a festive Canadian Christmas dinner, Heritage Champion award, entertainment and Christmas cheer as we celebrate Toronto’s first free school!

Begin the evening with a reception, hors d’oeurves and cash bar. Followed by a mouth-watering, four course, traditional Canadian Christmas dinner with wine catered by award-winning enVille Event Design and Catering.

Ryan Manucha is Master of Ceremonies for a program of traditional Irish music with North Atlantic Drift and caroling with singer and actor Catherine McKinnon.

*Tables will be created in groups of 4-6

This event is a fundraiser for the Enoch Turner Schoolhouse Foundation (11927 2862 RR0001). Tax receipts will be issued for the maximum allowable amount.

Wheelchair and TTC accessible.

For more information and tickets contact info@enochturnerschoolhouse.ca

Enoch Turner on Tap! returns to the Enoch Turner Schoolhouse. Enjoy Irish music, snacks, Victorian games, and even sip on a custom brewed beer good enough to impress Enoch Turner himself!*

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Live music by North Atlantic Drift!

*Custom beer available at cash bar. Non-alcoholic beverages are also available.

**This event is 19+.

***Tickets must be shown at the door and includes admission and snacks.

Ryan Manucha presents his Donner Prize winning book Booze, Cigarettes and Constitutional Dust-Ups: Canada’s Quest for Interprovincial Free Trade. A leading expert on interprovincial trade in Canada, Ryan Manucha is frequently called upon to advise governments and agencies. Ryan’s solutions-focused research is routinely published by Canada’s leading think tanks. He is currently a research fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute. Ryan holds a JD from Harvard Law School and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Yale University.

Presented by the Enoch Turner Schoolhouse Foundation and the Ontario Heritage Trust.

Custom beer created and provided by Granite Brewery.

We can’t wait to see you there!

Enoch Turner on Tap! returns to the Enoch Turner Schoolhouse. Enjoy Irish music, snacks, Victorian games, and even sip on a custom brewed beer good enough to impress Enoch Turner himself!*

GET YOUR TICKETS HERE!

*Custom beer available at cash bar. Non-alcoholic beverages are also available.

**This event is 19+.

***Tickets must be shown at the door and includes admission and snacks.

Ryan Manucha presents his Donner Prize winning book Booze, Cigarettes and Constitutional Dust-Ups: Canada’s Quest for Interprovincial Free Trade. A leading expert on interprovincial trade in Canada, Ryan Manucha is frequently called upon to advise governments and agencies. Ryan’s solutions-focused research is routinely published by Canada’s leading think tanks. He is currently a research fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute. Ryan holds a JD from Harvard Law School and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Yale University.

Presented by the Enoch Turner Schoolhouse Foundation and the Ontario Heritage Trust.

Custom beer created and provided by Granite Brewery.

We can’t wait to see you there!

*Joe Martin is Chair of the Enoch Turner Schoolhouse Foundation Advisory Board and over the last many years has been central to the Foundation’s success. 

Currently President of the Canadian Business History Association, of which he was a founding Director, Joe’s contributions to the study and promotion of history in Canada have also included his role as a founding Director of Canada’s National History Society, President of the Manitoba Historical Society and Director of the Canadian Business History Program at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, where he was also Adjunct Professor of Strategy and Executive in Residence. 

Prior to his full-time commitment to history and teaching, Joe had a distinguished career in the private sector and politics, serving as Executive Assistant to Duff Roblin while he was Premier of Manitoba, and later as a successful executive with Deloitte Consulting where he rose to lead the Canadian practice and served as Chair of the firm’s Global Committee. 

Joe is a published author, a proud family man, and a passionate Canadian.

We are incredibly happy to share this year’s Speaker’s Corner session.

If you were unable to join this session, please CLICK HERE to access the recording and enjoy!

We are thankful to our host Cecilia Morgan and wonderful panelists Patrice Dutil, Jackson Pind, Catherine Ellis, David A. Wilson and Sean Carleton for their compelling and enlightening commentary.

Thank-you to all who tuned in and joined us online!

Introducing our incredible line-up of esteemed panelists!
Join us for Speaker’s Corner on Tuesday, April 29 at 7pm live on Zoom. 

Register HERE

Amid a swirl of controversy, institutions named for educators and politicians such as Egerton Ryerson and John A. Macdonald have been renamed in recent years. Our panel of experts will grapple with the cultural and political significance of this and related subjects, including the role “re-naming” plays in reconciling relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples.

The forum addresses questions such as: “What and who should be commemorated? How should contemporary politics inform and affect commemoration? Are there enduring historical truths about historical actors?

We are thrilled to announce or esteemed line-up of panelists! Read more about them below:

Biographies of Panelists
Sean Carleton is an Associate Professor of history and Indigenous Studies at the University of Manitoba. His research examines the history of schooling and settler colonialism in Canada, and he is the author of Lessons in Legitimacy: Colonialism, Capitalism, and the Rise of State Schooling in British Columbia.

Patrice Dutil is a Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU). Previously, he spent 19 years in various parts of the public service and non-profit sector. He is a Senior Fellow in the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History at the University of Toronto as well as at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. His recent publications include Un pays en conflit: La tumultueuse élection canadienne de 1917 (2024); Sir John A. Macdonald and the Apocalyptic Year 1885 (2024); Ballots and Brawls: The 1867 Canadian Election (2025).

Catherine Ellis is an Associate Professor and settler scholar in the Department of History at
Toronto Metropolitan University. In 2020-21, she co-Chaired the Standing Strong Task
Force, which addressed the history, legacies and commemoration of her university’s former namesake, Egerton Ryerson. Catherine also recently contributed to the Palgrave Handbook on Rethinking Colonial Commemorations (2023). 

Jackson Pind is a mixed settler-Anishinaabe historian of Indigenous education and an Assistant Professor, Indigenous methodologies at the Chanie Wenjack School of Indigenous Studies at Trent University. His work focuses on the history of Indian Day Schools in Ontario. He is currently. His upcoming book, Students by Day: Colonialism and Resistance at the Curve Lake Indian Day School will be published this fall by McGill-Queen’s University Press.

David A. Wilson is a Professor in the Celtic Studies Program and History Department at the
University of Toronto, the General Editor of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.  His books include a prize-winning two-volume biography of Thomas D’Arcy McGee, and more recently Canadian Spy Story: Irish Revolutionaries and the Secret Police, which received the Champlain Society’s Chalmers Award, the C.P. Stacey Prize in Canadian Military History, and the Peter Toner Research Publication Award.

Cecilia Morgan (forum moderator) is a professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at OISE/UT and is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of History, U of T.  Her publications include Commemorating Canada: History, Heritage, and Memory 1850s-1990s (2016), Creating Colonial Pasts: History, Memory, and Commemoration in Southern Ontario, 1860-1980 (2015), and, with Colin M. Coates, Heroines and History: Representations of Madeleine de Verchères and Laura Secord (2002).

Five historians explore issues surrounding Canada’s history, heritage and memory. 

Amid a swirl of controversy, institutions named for educators and politicians such as Egerton Ryerson and John A. Macdonald have been renamed in recent years. Our panel of experts will grapple with the cultural and political significance of this and related subjects, including the role “re-naming” plays in reconciling relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. The forum addresses questions such as: “What and who should be commemorated? How should contemporary politics inform and affect commemoration? Are there enduring historical truths about historical actors?

Our panelists include:

Sean Carleton, Associate Professor of history and Indigenous studies at the University of Manitoba.

Patrice Dutil, Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University. 

Catherine Ellis, Associate Professor and settler scholar in the Department of History at Toronto Metropolitan University.

Jackson Pind, historian of Indigenous education and Assistant Professor of Indigenous methodologies at the Chanie Wenjack School of Indigenous Studies at Trent University.

David A. WIlson, Professor in the Celtic Studies program and history department at the University of Toronto.

Tuesday, April 29 at 7pm live on Zoom. Register HERE

SAVE THE DATE

Speaker’s Corner Presents

Memory and History: A Dialogue on the Politics of Commemoration

Five historians explore issues surrounding Canada’s history, heritage and memory. 

Amid a swirl of controversy, institutions named for educators and politicians such as Egerton Ryerson and John A. Macdonald have been renamed in recent years. Our panel of experts will grapple with the cultural and political significance of this and related subjects, including the role “re-naming” plays in reconciling relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. The forum addresses questions such as: “What and who should be commemorated? How should contemporary politics inform and affect commemoration? Are there enduring historical truths about historical actors?

Join us on Zoom for a stimulating dialogue on a subject that matters.

Tuesday, April 29 at 7pm live on Zoom. 

Registration and more information coming soon!