Trafalgar Township Historical Society
@trafalgartwphs.bsky.social
Preserving the region's agricultural heritage https://tths.ca
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⚡ Life doesn’t run on certainty anymore—it runs on resilience.
🇨🇦 With tariffs, CUSMA talks & rising costs, the best inheritance isn’t wealth—it’s adaptability, creativity & endurance.
💭 What qualities will Canadians need most to roll with change?
👉 Read: lenispooner.substack.com/p/no-going-b...
🇨🇦 With tariffs, CUSMA talks & rising costs, the best inheritance isn’t wealth—it’s adaptability, creativity & endurance.
💭 What qualities will Canadians need most to roll with change?
👉 Read: lenispooner.substack.com/p/no-going-b...
September 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
⚡ Life doesn’t run on certainty anymore—it runs on resilience.
🇨🇦 With tariffs, CUSMA talks & rising costs, the best inheritance isn’t wealth—it’s adaptability, creativity & endurance.
💭 What qualities will Canadians need most to roll with change?
👉 Read: lenispooner.substack.com/p/no-going-b...
🇨🇦 With tariffs, CUSMA talks & rising costs, the best inheritance isn’t wealth—it’s adaptability, creativity & endurance.
💭 What qualities will Canadians need most to roll with change?
👉 Read: lenispooner.substack.com/p/no-going-b...
Agricultural Heritage of Trafalgar Township (North Oakville) - our fall Heritage Fair Saturday Sept 27 10am-4pm - FREE admission and Free parking.
September 11, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Agricultural Heritage of Trafalgar Township (North Oakville) - our fall Heritage Fair Saturday Sept 27 10am-4pm - FREE admission and Free parking.
Join us Sept 9th @ 7pm at the Palermo Heritage schoolhouse, Oakville. Tom Holbrook will discuss the days when preserving fruits and vegetables was essential for families, to the many shapes and designs that filled kitchens over the years. Bring along any jars you may have and your questions too.
September 4, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Join us Sept 9th @ 7pm at the Palermo Heritage schoolhouse, Oakville. Tom Holbrook will discuss the days when preserving fruits and vegetables was essential for families, to the many shapes and designs that filled kitchens over the years. Bring along any jars you may have and your questions too.
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Brought along my vintage Royal York Hotel smoker’s caddy and related ephemera from my collection to the excellent "Toronto Treasures" event at Old City Hall, Toronto, Canada.
#OldCityHall #TorontoTreasures #Museums #hotel #ephemera #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin
#OldCityHall #TorontoTreasures #Museums #hotel #ephemera #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin
"Toronto Treasures" at Old City Hall
YouTube video by Jeremy Hopkin
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September 3, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Brought along my vintage Royal York Hotel smoker’s caddy and related ephemera from my collection to the excellent "Toronto Treasures" event at Old City Hall, Toronto, Canada.
#OldCityHall #TorontoTreasures #Museums #hotel #ephemera #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin
#OldCityHall #TorontoTreasures #Museums #hotel #ephemera #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin
"Agricultural in Trafalgar Township" visit us and step back into our farming past! A local Fair like experience with some history! There is lots of room at the old Schoolhouse in Palermo, Oakville, Ontario. Please plan on visiting Sept 27, 2025 10-4pm
More information at tths.ca/heritage-day...
More information at tths.ca/heritage-day...
September 4, 2025 at 12:32 PM
"Agricultural in Trafalgar Township" visit us and step back into our farming past! A local Fair like experience with some history! There is lots of room at the old Schoolhouse in Palermo, Oakville, Ontario. Please plan on visiting Sept 27, 2025 10-4pm
More information at tths.ca/heritage-day...
More information at tths.ca/heritage-day...
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Want to come work in beautiful wine country by Niagara Falls and the Niagara escarpment? You can!! Canada Excellence Research Chair in Sustainable Agriculture for Grape and Wine Professor or Associate Professor, Tenured @brocku.ca brocku.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/brocku_caree...
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Sustainable Agriculture for Grape and Wine Professor or Associate Professor, Tenured
This position is part of the BUFA (Employee Group) Brock University is located on the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe peoples, many of whom continue to live and work here to...
brocku.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com
August 2, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Want to come work in beautiful wine country by Niagara Falls and the Niagara escarpment? You can!! Canada Excellence Research Chair in Sustainable Agriculture for Grape and Wine Professor or Associate Professor, Tenured @brocku.ca brocku.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/brocku_caree...
Discover the Story of Home Canning Sept 9 7pm at Palermo's heritage schoolhouse (Oakville-Dundas/Brock)
Preserving the harvest was a matter of necessity. Local historian Tom Holbrook takes us back to when preserving food meant skill, ingenuity, and often, trial and error. After, we'll have a Q&A.
Preserving the harvest was a matter of necessity. Local historian Tom Holbrook takes us back to when preserving food meant skill, ingenuity, and often, trial and error. After, we'll have a Q&A.
August 15, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Discover the Story of Home Canning Sept 9 7pm at Palermo's heritage schoolhouse (Oakville-Dundas/Brock)
Preserving the harvest was a matter of necessity. Local historian Tom Holbrook takes us back to when preserving food meant skill, ingenuity, and often, trial and error. After, we'll have a Q&A.
Preserving the harvest was a matter of necessity. Local historian Tom Holbrook takes us back to when preserving food meant skill, ingenuity, and often, trial and error. After, we'll have a Q&A.
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BUY FRESH🇨🇦BUY LOCAL
Support YOUR Farmers
#buycanadian
#shopcanada
INTERACTIVE Map for You
ofa.on.ca/buy-local/ Buy local: Discover Ontario agricultural products and support local businesses - Ontario Federation of Agriculture
Support YOUR Farmers
#buycanadian
#shopcanada
INTERACTIVE Map for You
ofa.on.ca/buy-local/ Buy local: Discover Ontario agricultural products and support local businesses - Ontario Federation of Agriculture
Buy local: Discover Ontario agricultural products and support local businesses
Supporting local has always been a key part of our agriculture and food production system, and many people ask us how to find Ontario or Canadian products
ofa.on.ca
July 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM
BUY FRESH🇨🇦BUY LOCAL
Support YOUR Farmers
#buycanadian
#shopcanada
INTERACTIVE Map for You
ofa.on.ca/buy-local/ Buy local: Discover Ontario agricultural products and support local businesses - Ontario Federation of Agriculture
Support YOUR Farmers
#buycanadian
#shopcanada
INTERACTIVE Map for You
ofa.on.ca/buy-local/ Buy local: Discover Ontario agricultural products and support local businesses - Ontario Federation of Agriculture
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Registration is open for this one-day interdisciplinary workshop in York @yorkuniversity.bsky.social on 4 September supported by @wellcometrust.bsky.social exploring how the history of the transformation of British agriculture in the postwar period can inform policy.
www.york.ac.uk/yesi/events/...
www.york.ac.uk/yesi/events/...
Learning from the 20th Century Agricultural Revolution
What can we learn from the dramatic transformation of British farming after 1940? Join this interdisciplinary workshop to explore how past agricultural revolutions can inform future food systems and p...
www.york.ac.uk
August 8, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Registration is open for this one-day interdisciplinary workshop in York @yorkuniversity.bsky.social on 4 September supported by @wellcometrust.bsky.social exploring how the history of the transformation of British agriculture in the postwar period can inform policy.
www.york.ac.uk/yesi/events/...
www.york.ac.uk/yesi/events/...
Trafalgar Township Historical Society was at the Glenorchy Community Festival 27 July 2025! A well done event, lots of fun, even free ice cones! The Teacher was demonstrating the finer points of bell ringing and our country farm maid was hard at work washing the clothes. Great fun for all
July 29, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Trafalgar Township Historical Society was at the Glenorchy Community Festival 27 July 2025! A well done event, lots of fun, even free ice cones! The Teacher was demonstrating the finer points of bell ringing and our country farm maid was hard at work washing the clothes. Great fun for all
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100 years ago today: A westbound train pulls into Sunnyside station, Toronto - July 1st, 1925
📸: City of Toronto Archives, Globe and Mail fonds, Fonds 1266, Item 5749.
#OnThisDay #OTD #1920s #sunnyside #railway #railroad #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin
📸: City of Toronto Archives, Globe and Mail fonds, Fonds 1266, Item 5749.
#OnThisDay #OTD #1920s #sunnyside #railway #railroad #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin
July 1, 2025 at 10:24 PM
100 years ago today: A westbound train pulls into Sunnyside station, Toronto - July 1st, 1925
📸: City of Toronto Archives, Globe and Mail fonds, Fonds 1266, Item 5749.
#OnThisDay #OTD #1920s #sunnyside #railway #railroad #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin
📸: City of Toronto Archives, Globe and Mail fonds, Fonds 1266, Item 5749.
#OnThisDay #OTD #1920s #sunnyside #railway #railroad #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin
We'll be at the Glenorchy Fair July 27th! We will have the;
-"Teaching Master" from the Old Palermo school
-Wash clothes, make some bubbles, as they did 100 years ago
-A selection of early school books for sale
-Recipes
Have some fun and meet your local historical society in north Oakville!
-"Teaching Master" from the Old Palermo school
-Wash clothes, make some bubbles, as they did 100 years ago
-A selection of early school books for sale
-Recipes
Have some fun and meet your local historical society in north Oakville!
July 6, 2025 at 6:32 PM
We'll be at the Glenorchy Fair July 27th! We will have the;
-"Teaching Master" from the Old Palermo school
-Wash clothes, make some bubbles, as they did 100 years ago
-A selection of early school books for sale
-Recipes
Have some fun and meet your local historical society in north Oakville!
-"Teaching Master" from the Old Palermo school
-Wash clothes, make some bubbles, as they did 100 years ago
-A selection of early school books for sale
-Recipes
Have some fun and meet your local historical society in north Oakville!
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June 30, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Many Irish immigrants came to Canada and would value these new records
The latest from the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland project:
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
#History #Ireland 🗃️
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
#History #Ireland 🗃️
Pioneering project releases more lost Irish records spanning 700 years
Newly restored material from vast archive destroyed in civil war takes in Anglo-Norman conquest and 1798 rebellion
www.theguardian.com
July 1, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Many Irish immigrants came to Canada and would value these new records
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"Something ineffable happens when you write down a thought: You think something you did not know you could or would think and it leads you to another thought… the process of writing itself leads to previously unthought thoughts [and] crystallizes half-formulated or unformulated thoughts"
- Lynn Hunt
- Lynn Hunt
June 28, 2025 at 8:36 AM
"Something ineffable happens when you write down a thought: You think something you did not know you could or would think and it leads you to another thought… the process of writing itself leads to previously unthought thoughts [and] crystallizes half-formulated or unformulated thoughts"
- Lynn Hunt
- Lynn Hunt
Happy Canada Day 2025
July 1, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Happy Canada Day 2025
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'David Carpenter, a professor of medieval history at King’s College London, stumbled on a document labelled as an unofficial copy of Magna Carta from 1327 in Harvard law school library’s online collection.' Hmmm: 'stumbled on'? No training, rigour or methodology involved in the find, then.
Harvard’s unofficial copy of Magna Carta is actually an original, experts say
Document issued by Edward I in 1300 was bought by law school library for just $27 in 1946
www.theguardian.com
May 15, 2025 at 7:10 AM
'David Carpenter, a professor of medieval history at King’s College London, stumbled on a document labelled as an unofficial copy of Magna Carta from 1327 in Harvard law school library’s online collection.' Hmmm: 'stumbled on'? No training, rigour or methodology involved in the find, then.
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With double the submissions to our CFP compared to last year, #NACBS2025 is shaping up to be one for the books! Don’t miss out on what is sure to be a fantastic conference!
More info here: www.nacbs.org/conference
More info here: www.nacbs.org/conference
May 16, 2025 at 5:10 PM
With double the submissions to our CFP compared to last year, #NACBS2025 is shaping up to be one for the books! Don’t miss out on what is sure to be a fantastic conference!
More info here: www.nacbs.org/conference
More info here: www.nacbs.org/conference
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Another piece of #DigitalHistory infrastructure closing down:
On 24 June 2025 the ScotlandsPlaces website will be switched off.
HES material can be found on trove.scot
NLS material can be found at nls.uk and maps.nls.uk
National Records of Scotland items may be accessible through scotlandspeople.gov.uk or in the search rooms in Edinburgh.
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HES material can be found on trove.scot
NLS material can be found at nls.uk and maps.nls.uk
National Records of Scotland items may be accessible through scotlandspeople.gov.uk or in the search rooms in Edinburgh.
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May 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Another piece of #DigitalHistory infrastructure closing down:
Halton Peel Genealogical Society (Ontario Ancestors) will have noted speaker John McDonald presenting "The Temperance Movement". To be held at the the Brampton Public Library on Sunday May 25 at 2pm,
May 19, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Halton Peel Genealogical Society (Ontario Ancestors) will have noted speaker John McDonald presenting "The Temperance Movement". To be held at the the Brampton Public Library on Sunday May 25 at 2pm,
Author/historian John McDonald shares the story of Halton's County Court House/Gaol, built in 1853. A tale about the people, politics and drama behind this historic building—home to early county plans, major court cases, and even Halton’s only public hangings-at Palermo's schoolhouse in Oakville
May 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Author/historian John McDonald shares the story of Halton's County Court House/Gaol, built in 1853. A tale about the people, politics and drama behind this historic building—home to early county plans, major court cases, and even Halton’s only public hangings-at Palermo's schoolhouse in Oakville
On Saturday, May 24, 2025 11am-7pm it's a day of food, culture & performances at the Asian Heritage Festival, Fowley Park, 106 Fowley Dr, Oakville! @scottxieaj & @navnandaward7 Hosted by the Asian Heritage Society
Bring your family and celebrate Oakville’s vibrant diversity.
Bring your family and celebrate Oakville’s vibrant diversity.
May 6, 2025 at 2:21 PM
On Saturday, May 24, 2025 11am-7pm it's a day of food, culture & performances at the Asian Heritage Festival, Fowley Park, 106 Fowley Dr, Oakville! @scottxieaj & @navnandaward7 Hosted by the Asian Heritage Society
Bring your family and celebrate Oakville’s vibrant diversity.
Bring your family and celebrate Oakville’s vibrant diversity.
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Opinion: “If we want that project to stay alive and relevant, we must engage more strongly with the factors that give it a place in society.”
Defending the status quo will not protect the humanities’ future, writes Marion Thain
#highered #EduSky
Defending the status quo will not protect the humanities’ future, writes Marion Thain
#highered #EduSky
Defending the status quo will not protect the humanities’ future
If our subjects are to stay alive and relevant, we must engage more strongly with the factors that give them a place in society, says Marion Thain
www.timeshighereducation.com
March 24, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Speaker Night: Join us on Tue. April 1, 2025 at 7pm in the Palermo Heritage schoolhouse in Oakville. It's the 1st of a 3-part series on invasions of Canada - from l'Ancien Regime to Louis Riel. Dave Hobden will be our speaker.
March 24, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Speaker Night: Join us on Tue. April 1, 2025 at 7pm in the Palermo Heritage schoolhouse in Oakville. It's the 1st of a 3-part series on invasions of Canada - from l'Ancien Regime to Louis Riel. Dave Hobden will be our speaker.
Attended Heritage Week Celebration event Feb 25 at Oakville Town Hall and learned more about Oakville's Heritage Designation Project. All of Oakville's historical societies attended to show their support.
February 27, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Attended Heritage Week Celebration event Feb 25 at Oakville Town Hall and learned more about Oakville's Heritage Designation Project. All of Oakville's historical societies attended to show their support.