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THANK YOU TO ALL OUR GUESTS AND SUPPORTERS FOR A GREAT EVENING!
Thank-you to everyone who attended our Annual Founder’s Dinner, it was a splendid evening!
Special thanks to:
DELOITTE
AROMA CAFÉ
GEORGE BROWN COLLEGE CONTINUING EDUCATION
MONTGOMERY’S INN INN-OVATORS
ONTARIO HERITAGE TRUST
TORONTO MARRIOTT BLOOR YORKVILLE
THE VIMY FOUNDATION
BRENDA WEBSTER TWEEL
Happy Holidays to all!
The Annual Founder’s Dinner
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as we celebrate the spirit of the holidays and the opening of the Schoolhouse in 1849 for the poor children of Corktown.
Highlights include a traditional Canadian Christmas dinner with wine, seasonal reading, and carol singing. Enjoy fun and upbeat music performed by Danny’s 7.
We will be honouring our 2017 Heritage Champion, Jim Leech, C.M.
Our emcee for the evening is award-winning investigative and consumer reporter for Global News Toronto, Sean O’Shea.
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 to reserve tickets contact info@enochturnerschoolhouse.ca OR purchase tickets HERE.
Values and Visions in Public Schooling: What is Schooling For?
On November 14, please join us at the Enoch Turner Schoolhouse for the first talk in our education series.
This first in a series of four panel sessions is an in-depth discussion of the aims of public schooling. Distinguished historian Paul Axelrod sets the context by recalling the origins of public schooling in Canada.
The panel includes:
- Annie Kidder, Executive Director of the advocacy organization, People for Education
- Jonathan Kakegamic, Principal of First Nations Junior and Senior School of Toronto
- Steve Alsop, Professor of education, science, and environmental sustainability, York University
Refreshments at 6:30 pm. Session starts at 7 pm.
Refund Policy Not applicable.
***Click here for more details and to reserve your seat***
Values and Visions in Education: Designs for Learning
Our second panel, on November 28th, is an informative discussion on how design, architecture, and the construction of schooling spaces affects and reflects social values, community life, and the interests of neighbourhoods.
This panel includes:
- Brenda Webster, Architect (Manager of Planning – Waterfront Toronto) Panel Chair
- Shannon Kyles (Mohawk College), “School Architecture Through the Ages”
- Josh Cole (Queen’s University), “Baby Boomers and the Building Boom: Post-war School Construction in Ontario”
- Martin Kohn (Kohn Shnier Architects), “Designing Schools for Today and Tomorrow”
Refreshments at 6:30 pm. Event starts at 7 pm
CLICK HERE to register online!
**Remember, it is not too late to register for our first panel on November 14th! Register for the November 14th talk HERE**
Save the Date!
Friday, December 1st
The Annual Founder’s Day Dinner
A traditional Canadian Christmas Dinner celebrating the opening of Toronto’s first free school in 1849.
Hosted by Sean O’Shea of Global News.
Come enjoy Seasonal music, carols, and entertainment!
More information on where to buy tickets coming soon!
The Enoch Turner Schoolhouse Foundation would like to thank Deloitte Management Services LP. for their generous support.
Councillor Pam McConnell
On the passing of Councillor Pam McConnell, the Foundation would like to offer sincere condolences to her family. Pam was an advocate for public education and a good friend to the Enoch Turner Schoolhouse. She will be missed.
Canada 150 Education Series UPDATE
Enoch Turner Schoolhouse Foundation presents:
Values and Visions in Public Schooling
This education series looks to the history of universal public schooling to reconsider contemporary education.
Expert panels ask what schooling is for, why we design schools as we do, whether schooling today is equitable for all Canadians, and how the arts can transform classroom teaching.
Parents, students, educators, community members, urban planners, architects and heritage enthusiasts are invited to take part in a unique opportunity for dialogue.
November 14 and 28, 2017
January 16 and 30, 2018
Stay tuned for more details!
CANADA 
150
Welcome to the Foundation Online
Photo© Ontario Heritage Trust
Welcome to the website of the Foundation whose mission it is to foster the memory of the oldest free school in Toronto and the man who was responsible for its existence, Enoch Turner.
Our mission is also to help the Ontario Heritage Trust to preserve the Schoolhouse in its original condition, so that it will continue to inspire thousands of visitors every year.
In 2023 and 2024, the Enoch Turner Schoolhouse Foundation and Ontario Heritage Trust celebrate the 175th anniversary of the Schoolhouse and the role it played in the development of a provincially supported free school system.
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