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SUMMARY:Military Lecture: From Sherbrooke with Love: Illicit Correspondence\, Civilian Internment\, and Canada in the Second World War
DESCRIPTION:Gillian Wagenaar examines a case of illicit correspondence between a Canadian teenager and a group of civilian internees in Quebec in the early years of the Second World War. Through a micro-historical assessment\, she explores context regarding the development and use of internment systems in Canada\, the social dynamics within and beyond these camps\, and the afterlives\, expected and otherwise\, of wartime stories and sources. \nDoors open at 6:30 and the presentation starts at 7 p.m.\, followed by a question period. \nThe lecture premiered in-person at the Civic Museum. The recorded conversation will be available on YouTube\, and our Museum Everywhere Portal. Guelph Museums’ Military Lecture series is presented in partnership with the Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada. \nWatch the Recording\n\nAbout the Speaker\n \nGillian Wagenaar is a SSHRC-funded PhD candidate at the University of Waterloo. Her research looks at Canadian correspondence at both the heart and margins of the Second World War\, connecting homefront and battlefront\, and examining the meaning of letters and how they get from one point to another. Through this work\, she aims to make the exploration of history more accessible through digital methods\, storytelling\, and hands-on engagement with the past.
URL:https://guelphmuseums.ca/event/military-lecture-from-sherbrooke-with-love-illicit-correspondence-civilian-internment-and-canada-in-the-second-world-war/
LOCATION:Guelph Civic Museum\, 52 Norfolk Street\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1H 4H8\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Family Shorts Film Screening in collaboration with imagineNative
DESCRIPTION:“Family Shorts” presented in collaboration with imagineNative Film and Media Festival \nDuration: 45 minutes. \nSee works of whimsical animations\, calls for action for future generations\, and lessons to listen to your elders! \nAllison Goes Berry Picking [5 mins.]\nDirectors: Allison Anderson (Trondëk Hwech’in)\, Georgette McLoed (Trondëk Hwëch’in) \nPendleton Man [11 mins.]\nDirector: Doug Winnipeg (Blackfoot) \nThe Lemonade Stand – Making Medicines [5 mins.]\nDirector: Paul O’Bomsawin (Abénaki) \nGraduation Day [12 mins.]\nDirectors: Charlene Moore (Cree)\, Tasha Hubbard (Cree) \nMy Friend the Green Horse [11 mins.]\nDirector(s): Alanis Obomsawin (Abénaki) \nIntended Audience: Appropriate for kids and families. \n  \nOffered in response to the exhibition Maawnjidyang Maa: We Come Together Here.
URL:https://guelphmuseums.ca/event/family-shorts-film-screening-in-collaboration-with-imaginenative/
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SUMMARY:Fourth Friday: James Gordon
DESCRIPTION:James Gordon returns to Fourth Friday with Hometown Tunes\, celebrating small towns across Ontario. Years ago\, as songwriter-in-residence at CBC radio\, Gordon created a music series for the Ontario Morning program. CBC listeners would write letters about something they considered ‘song-worthy’ from their towns – an historic incident\, a local character\, a current event. Gordon would pick a letter each week\, write a song about the topic suggested\, and perform it live on the air in Toronto\, usually at 7:30 a.m.\, after driving in from his hometown of Guelph. Gordon will revisit these tunes as we take a tour around Ontario from the comfort of Guelph Civic Museum. \nAdmission by donation starts at 5 p.m. with the concert beginning at 7 p.m. Cash bar available. \nAbout the Artist\nJames Gordon has had a remarkably diverse and resilient career in the Canadian cultural sector. As a solo singer-songwriter and with the ground-breaking trio Tamarack\, he’s recorded 42 albums and toured relentlessly around the world. For more than ten years he was a songwriter-in-residence for CBC radio\, and his “Hometown Tunes” feature on Ontario Morning was the starting point for this presentation.  Between tours\, James is a record producer\, playwright\, community activist\, theatre director\, and he served two terms as a Guelph City Councillor. \nHis song ’Mining For Gold’ was featured in the John Sayles film ‘Silver City’ and was included on the classic Cowboy Junkies album ‘The Trinity Sessions’. Gordon’s iconic ‘Frobisher Bay’ has been recorded by more than 100 different acts world-wide. It’s become a standard in choirs everywhere\, and is in ‘Rise Again’\, the sequel to the legendary ‘Rise Up Singing’ songbook. \nHis newest album ‘Wrinkles and Scars” came out last year and his ‘musical novel’ ‘The Ark Of The Oven Mitt\,’ was a finalist in the 2022 Stephen Leacock Humour Awards. Gordon had his first ‘viral hit’ with 300\,000 views on YouTube and social media for his political commentary song about the ‘Freedom Convoy. He’s touring this year with his one-man ‘activist’ musical “Smashing the Oligarchy and Other Fun Pre-apocalyptic Activities.”\nJamesgordon.ca
URL:https://guelphmuseums.ca/event/fourth-friday-james-gordon-2/
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SUMMARY:Tales from the Hill: Guelph Guild of Storytellers
DESCRIPTION:Tales from the Hill is presented by the Guelph Guild of Storytellers and features a guest teller in addition to Guild tellers. The evening includes hot cider\, light refreshments\, and conversation. Guests are invited to register a telling or participate during the open mic storytelling. \nTales from the Hill runs on the second Wednesday or Thursday of each month from October to May. \nGuests can arrive at 6:30 p.m. for casual socializing\, call to order at 7:00 p.m. for storytelling\, followed by time for more visits.
URL:https://guelphmuseums.ca/event/tales-from-the-hill-guelph-guild-of-storytellers-22/
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SUMMARY:Military Lecture: Lives of Servitude and Service: British Home Children and the Making of Wartime Canada by Kelly Morrison
DESCRIPTION:At 102\, Sir George Beardshaw is the last surviving veteran of the Second World War-era Queen’s Own Rifles and the only surviving British “Home Child” left in Canada. He is one of approximately 100\,000 poor or orphaned child migrants sent to this country as part of British social and philanthropic programs developed across the United Kingdom between 1869 and 1939. Many Home Children\, despite enduring hardship and abuse in their placements\, chose to stay in Canada and contribute to this country’s efforts in the First and Second World Wars—approximately 10\,000 in the Great War and 20\,000 in the Second World War. Countless others served in various ways on the Canadian home front. Kelly Morrison’s presentation introduces Beardshaw and a select group of Home Children\, revealing how this marginalized group helped to define Canada’s national wartime and postwar identity. \nDoors open at 6:30 p.m. and the presentation starts at 7:00 p.m.\, followed by a question period. \nThe lecture premieres in-person at the Civic Museum. The recorded conversation will be available on YouTube\, and our Museum Everywhere Portal. Guelph Museums’ Military Lecture series is presented in partnership with the Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada. \nAbout the Speaker\n \nKelly Morrison is a PhD candidate in history\, specializing in War & Society studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. She earned her Honours BA and MA in history at the University of Toronto. Morrison has published two articles: In 2016\, “The North West Rebellion Monument and its Enduring Place in the Historical Landscape of Toronto\,” for ImagiNATIONS\, the University of Toronto’s Journal of Canadian Studies; and in 2020\, “The Missing and the Missed of Lanark County\, Ontario: Great War Sacrifice and the Memorialization of Exclusion in ‘The Volunteer’ Monument\,” for the Journal of Ontario History. She has guest lectured on the subject of War\, Commemoration and Propaganda at the University of Toronto and Wilfrid Laurier University. She has been a guest speaker on Home Child history at the Brant Museum and Archives and the British Consulate in Toronto. She is a regular keynote speaker at Remembrance Day luncheons hosted by the Royal Canadian Navy and HMCS York from 2020-2025.
URL:https://guelphmuseums.ca/event/military-lecture-lives-of-servitude-and-service-british-home-children-and-the-making-of-wartime-canada-by-kelly-morrison/
LOCATION:Guelph Civic Museum\, 52 Norfolk Street\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1H 4H8\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Niwiidosendimin (We Walk with Each Other)
DESCRIPTION:Niwiidosendimin (We Walk with Each Other)  \nA guided walking tour with Jordan Jamieson and Edebwed Ogichidaa / Valarie King \nOn the evening of Thursday\, April 23\, join us for a community walk from the rivers who meet in Guelph (Speed and Eramosa) to the hilltop where the Museum is located. The walk is guided by Jordan Jamieson and Edebwed Ogichidaa / Valarie King. Jordan Jamieson is an Anishinaabe knowledge keeper\, leader and youth ambassador from Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation\, who is passionate about fostering productive dialogue between Indigenous and settler communities. Edebwed Ogichidaa / Valarie King is a knowledge keeper\, educator\, and elder from Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. \nParticipants will walk together\, pausing in specific locations to reflect on past and present experiences in the place we call Guelph\, and to imagine a shared future. Reflect and learn at the rivers and on the land through First Nations perspectives. \nThe walking tour ends on the hilltop overlooking downtown Guelph. Witness a 30-foot-wide projection on the east-facing wall of the St. Agnes School\, engaging in a dialogue with the land and the surrounding architecture. The video compilation features “The Archive of Steampunk Mishoomis\,” created by longtime Guelph resident\, Anishinaabemowin speaker\, and residential school Survivor\, Rene Meshake\, who incorporated expressions of Anishinaabe identity and pride into his work. \nThis event is offered in conjunction with the feature exhibition Maawnjidyang Maa: We Come Together Here\, curated by the Decolonizing Place Narratives Collective. Registration is required and includes access to the exhibition. Registration via Eventbrite will be available soon. \nPlease note that the walk will take approximately 60-75 minutes at a moderate pace\, with stops for storytelling and reflection at specific locations along the route. Much\, but not all\, the route is paved. Walkers will climb the steps from Gordon Street to the hilltop\, where the Basilica and the Museum are located. Please wear comfortable shoes. Note that there are no washroom facilities until the walkers reach the Guelph Civic Museum. \nParticipants are welcome to park in the Museum’s lot (entrance off Cork Street) and then walk to the meeting location at the conjunction of the rivers. The Museum’s parking lot is free of charge for participants in the event. \n 
URL:https://guelphmuseums.ca/event/niwiidosendimin-we-walk-with-each-other/
LOCATION:Guelph Civic Museum\, 52 Norfolk Street\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1H 4H8\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Tales from the Hill: Guelph Guild of Storytellers
DESCRIPTION:Tales from the Hill is presented by the Guelph Guild of Storytellers and features a guest teller in addition to Guild tellers. The evening includes hot cider\, light refreshments\, and conversation. Guests are invited to register a telling or participate during the open mic storytelling. \nTales from the Hill runs on the second Wednesday or Thursday of each month from October to May. \nGuests can arrive at 6:30 p.m. for casual socializing\, call to order at 7:00 p.m. for storytelling\, followed by time for more visits.
URL:https://guelphmuseums.ca/event/tales-from-the-hill-guelph-guild-of-storytellers-23/
LOCATION:Guelph Civic Museum\, 52 Norfolk Street\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1H 4H8\, Canada
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