Meetings are held at Heart Lake Presbyterian Church
On the 3rd Thursday of every month
September to June, except December
7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
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(Annual Membership $30.00 and Guests $5.00)
Brampton Historical Society
Next Meeting:
JANUARY 16, 2025
Steve Collie - BHS President
2025 UPCOMING SPEAKERS:
January 16, 2025 - Steve Collie, BHS President
February 20, 2025 - Adam Bunch, "The Toronto Book of Love & The City's Romantic Past"
March 20, 2025 - AGM and Charlton Carscallen, COB "Current Heritage Initiatives at the City of Brampton"
April 17, 2025 - Meagan Gilpin, Selection Librarian, "The Evolution of Brampton's Libraries"
May 15, 2025 - Member Show & Tell
June 19, 2025 - Kyle Neill, Region of Peel Archivist
July and August - No Meetings
September 18, 2025 - TBA
October 16, 2025 - TBA
November 20, 2025 - TBA
December - No Meeting
2024 PAST SPEAKERS:
January 18, 2024 - Chris Drew, Transit Advocator & Anastasia Abrazhevich, COB Heritage Planner "New Historic Plaque for the Brampton Station"
February 15, 2024 - Members Show & Tell - CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER
March 21, 2024 - Annual General Meeting
April 18, 2024 - Lynne Golding, Lawyer and Author, "Sir William Gage, an Influential Peel Countian"
May 16, 2024 - Gregory Klages, Author/Historian/Heritage Culture Policy Advocate, "The Many Deaths of Tom Thomson"
June 20, 2024 - John Fera, Historian/Collector, "Antique Firearms"
July and August - No meetings
September 19, 2024 - Annemarie Hagan, Freelance Public Historian, "Exploring the Life of Frederick Hagan: A Daughter's Perspective"
October 17, 2024 - Members Show & Tell
November 21, 2024 - Ronacel Frando, Student and BHS Paul Hunt Bursary Award Winner, "The History of Brampton's Mount Pleasant Village"
December - No Meeting, Happy Holidays
2023 PAST SPEAKERS
January 19, 2023 - J.M. Doucette, "Toronto's Lost Golf Courses"
March 16, 2023 - AGM General Meeting
April 20, 2023 - Astrid Peters, Author "Sibylla, One Story at a Time"
May 18, 2023 - Dan O'Reilly, BHS Member, Wildfield
June 15, 2023 - Members Show & Tell
September 21, 2023 - Ted Barris, Battle of the Atlantic: Gauntlet to Victory
October 19, 2023 - Glenn McFarlane, Lending a (Canad)arm to Space
November 16, 2023 - Jonathan Scotland, BHS Member, The Life Expectancy of Canada’s Great War Veterans
December - No Meeting, Happy Holidays
2022 SPEAKERS:
January 20, 2022 - Aidan Nault, Student and 2021 BHS Paul Hunt Bursary Award Winner, History of Hockey in Brampton and Bramalea
February 17, 2022 - Lynne Golding, Lawyer and Author, Canada in the Roaring 20's
March 17, 2022 - AGM General Meeting
April 21, 2022 - Victoria MacPhail, Ecologist and Co-Founder of Pollination Park, Guelph's Pollinator Park
May 19, 2022 - Alison Gammage, Student and 2021 BHS Paul Hunt Bursary Award Winner, Battles that took place during the war of 1812
June 16, 2022 - Lynne Golding, Lawyer and Author, The Mending: Beneath the Alders Series
September 15, 2022 - Jonathan Scotland, BHS member, The Dictionary of Canadian Biography
October 20, 2022 - Members Show & Tell
November 17, 2022 - Randy Barber, Historian & Collector, Sir Winston Churchill
2021 SPEAKERS:
November 18, 2021 - Members Show & Tell VIA ZOOM
October 21, 2021 - Randy Barber, Historian & Collector, History of Barbering and Shaving
September 16, 2021 - Professor Mark Rector, Author, Canadian Women Inventors
June 17, 2021 - Annual General Meeting
May 20, 2021 - Lynne Golding, Lawyer and Author, The Beleaguered: Beneath the Alders Series
April 15, 2021 - Professor Mark Rector, Author, Canada’s Military Triumphs and Military Inventions
March 18, 2021 - Marc Tomei, BHS Member, PART 2 OF 2 Exploration of Brampton
February 18, 2021 - Marc Tomei, BHS Member, PART 1 OF 2 Exploration of Brampton
January 2021 - Professor Mark Rector, Author, OH CANADA! Our Home and Inventive Land
2020 SPEAKERS:
January 16, 2020 – Members Show & Tell
February 20, 2020 - Monica Polley, BHS Member, Historic Brampton Member Photos
March - June 2020 - MEETINGS POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19
Oct 22, 2020 – Annual General Meeting via Zoom
2019 PAST SPEAKERS:
November 21, 2019 - Saul Svirplys, Architectural Historian/Suburban Geographer, History of Bramalea
October 17, 2019 - Glenn McFarlane, Musician/Songwriter and Multi-Instrumentalist, Family's 200-year History in New Brunswick
September 19, 2019 - David Neelands, Dean Emeritus of Divinity, In Search of a Better Life: the Graham-Reed Settlements from New York City to Peel County in 1819
July and August - No meetings
June 20, 2019 – Dave Patterson, Inspirational Speaker and Author, The Extraordinary Number of Indian Gifts to the World
May 16, 2019 – Geoff Acheson, BHS member, Lighting of the Past
April 18, 2019 – Lynne Golding, Lawyer and Author, The Innocent: Beneath the Alders Series
March 21, 2019 – Annual General Meeting
February 21, 2019 – Paul Willoughby, BHS member, History of the Haggert Family & the Haggert Brothers Manufacturing Company
January 17, 2019 – Members Show & Tell
2018 PAST SPEAKERS:
November 15, 2018 - Martin Howard, Collector and Historian, Typewriters
October 18, 2018 - Sandra McNamara, Historian, Life and Times of the United Empire Loyalists
September 20, 2018 – Paul Racher, Archaeologist and Historian, The Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC)
June 21, 2018 - Jim Leonard, Regional Archivist and Supervisor of Archives at PAMA, Brampton Films produced by local photographer, Cecil Chinn
May 17, 2018 - Jean Robinson, Author Historian, Early One-room Schoolhouses in Peel County
April 19, 2018 - Dr. Arne Kislenko, Historian and Professor, The History of Espionage and Intelligence Services
March 15, 2018 - Annual General Meeting
February 15, 2018 - Catherine Carreiro, BHS member, Brampton Library 101
January 18, 2018- Members Show & Tell
2017 PAST SPEAKERS:
November 16, 2017 - Linda Granfield, Historian and Author, In Flanders Fields
October 19, 2017 – Barbara Dickson, Historian and Author, Bomb Girls: Trading Aprons for Ammo
September 21, 2017 – Debra Porter and Claire Cooper, Historians, History of Grace United Church
June 22, 2017 – Chris Raible, Retired Minister, Life and Times of William Lyon Mackenzie and the 1837 Rebellion
May 18, 2017 – Sandra Joyce, Journalist/Publicist, Finding Family at the Tower of London
April 20, 2017 – John McDonald, Historian, Creation of the Halton/Peel County after the War of 1812
March 16, 2017 – Annual General Meeting
February 16, 2017 – Steve Collie, BHS member, Hauntings
January 19, 2017 - Members Show and Tell
2016 PAST SPEAKERS:
November 17, 2016 - Craig Heron, Professor, Booze: A Distilled History
October 20, 2016 - Jim Leonard, Peel Art Gallery Museum and Archives (PAMA), Interesting Historic Artifacts
September 15, 2016 - Andrew Welch, Actor, The Role of the Town Crier
June 16, 2016 - Karen Millyard, Social Dance Historian, The History of Social Dancing
May 19, 2016 - Diane Reid and Sarah Walker, Historians, Getting Dressed in 1885