Brampton Historical Society
2025 UPCOMING SPEAKERS:
January 16, 2025 - Steve Collie, BHS President, "Paranormal Roadshow"
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 - Stewart Sherriff, Curator, Lorne Scots Regimental Museum
June 19, 2025 - Kyle Neill, Region of Peel Archivist, "Brampton's Archival Gems in the Peel Archives"
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
Next Meeting:
APRIL 17, 2025
MEAGAN GILPIN, Selection Librarian
"The Evolution of Brampton's Libraries"
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)