Thursday, May 23, 2024

Live upcoming presentation: The Homes of Wellington Village!

Invitation - All are welcome!

On next Tuesday evening (May 28th), I will be speaking at our Wellington Village Community Association's AGM with a presentation on the history of homes in Wellington Village!

The presentation will be largely photos/visuals based and will cover the last nearly-200 years of homes in our neighbourhood. From the earliest farm houses to the boom of the early 20th century, and developments since. All with a focus on Wellington Village (the area between Island Park and Holland, Scott and the Queensway).

As part of the presentation, I will also 'premiere' some long lost film footage I found deep in a UK archives over this past winter, of our impressive Kirkpatrick House/Byron House (now the Peruvian Ambassador's residence) at 539 Island Park Drive. This rare footage shows the British war evacuee children playing on the property, and walking in the area of Island Park and Geneva. Some of it is even in colour! The full footage I have is 14 minutes long but I'll have it cut down to 2 minutes or so of highlights (the full 14 minutes I'll be sharing here on the Museum in the very near future).

The AGM is on Tuesday May 28th at 7:30 p.m. at Fisher Park School, Room 111 (the end of the school right by Holland Avenue). The history stuff will be sandwiched between a presentation by Jeff Leiper on some important zoning changes (which will soon very much affect the character of our neighbourhood), as well as our usual AGM business (which is well worth staying to hear, to learn more about what the WVCA does!). 

I hope to see some of you there! Cheers!



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