Upcoming Events - Get Out Your Calendar!
Luminato - Walk with Amal
Contact & Colonialism - The Mississauga and the Legacy of the Toronto Purchase
Luminato - Walk with Amal
Saturday June 10 2023
3 pm
Starts: Mabelle, 5005 Dundas St W, 6
Ends: Montgomery’s Inn, 4709 Dundas St W,
Amal is hungry and searching for something familiar to eat. Local children take her to the MABELLEmarket, where the market smells, sounds and colours bring back memories, both sweet and sad, of home. We’ll help Amal gather food and memories from the market, and walk her market finds to the Inn to create a Taste of Home for all, together!
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Environment Days - Ward 2
Contact & Colonialism - The Mississauga and the Legacy of the Toronto Purchase
Luminato - Walk with Amal
Ward 2: Sunday June 11 2023
10 am - 2 pm
Richview CI, 1738 Islington Ave
Community Environment Days is one of many ReduceWasteTO programs and initiatives supporting the City’s Long Term Waste Management Strategy. This program helps reduce the amount of reusable or recyclable waste going to landfill and allow for safe disposal of household hazardous waste.
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Contact & Colonialism - The Mississauga and the Legacy of the Toronto Purchase
Contact & Colonialism - The Mississauga and the Legacy of the Toronto Purchase
Contact & Colonialism - The Mississauga and the Legacy of the Toronto Purchase
Thursday June 15 2023
7:30 pm
Etobicoke Historical Society
Virtual Presentation/Zoom
Why are the Mississauga of the Credit First Nation not in Mississauga? Historian and consultant Karen Travers will discuss diplomatic and economic relationships between the Mississauga, and British officials and settlers that led to the negotiation of Treaty 13 in 1805, as well the impact of settlement, policy and law that forced them to relocate to Hagersville, Ontario in the mid-19th century.
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Arts Etobicoke Celebrates 50 yrs!
Going to the Rock - A Choral Performance
Contact & Colonialism - The Mississauga and the Legacy of the Toronto Purchase
Saturday June 17 2023
Noon - 4 pm
Arts Etobicoke
4893a Dundas St West
We are turning 50 this year and we want to celebrate with you!
We have made it this far through the love and support of our community and we want to take a moment to celebrate! Please join us for a community celebration event featuring live music, dance, art activities and food!
Don't forget to mark down Saturday, June 17 on your calendars. The celebration will take place in the parking lot behind out Storefront Gallery at 4893a Dundas St. W.
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Going to the Rock - A Choral Performance
Going to the Rock - A Choral Performance
Going to the Rock - A Choral Performance
Sunday June 18 2023
3 pm - 4:30 pm
Islington United Church
25 Burnhamthorpe Rd
From June 29th to July 3rd, the IUC Senior Choir will have the privilege of traveling to the east of Newfoundland for an opportunity to learn new music, provide opportunities for local fundraising and spend time growing together as a community. We will be joined by beloved local tenor soloist Darrin Martin and an ensemble of local musicians who will both present some of their own music and play & sing with the choir!
June 18th will be an opportunity for the IUC Senior Choir to present the music we will be taking with us to Newfoundland at the end of the month. It will be a concert of sacred music and Newfoundland folk music. While we won’t have those local musicians with us here, we will endeavour to capture the spirit of the music, as best we can!
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PRIDE DAY Community BBQ
Going to the Rock - A Choral Performance
Going to the Rock - A Choral Performance
Sunday June 25 2023
11:30 am - 1:30 pm
Islington United Church
25 Burnhamthorpe Rd
Celebrate PRIDE DAY outside on the front side lawn at Islington United Church with free food, music, activities, and giveaways.
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TD Jerkfest 2023
The Don - Inmates, Guards, Governors and the Gallows
Toronto's Mayors from Muddy York to Mega City
Fri Aug 11 2023 - Sun Aug 13 2023
Centennial Park
The 22nd annual TD International Jerk Food and Music Festival returns to Centennial Park, in Etobicoke, from August 11th to August 13th.
Taking the TD JerkFest stage for Friday’s R&B night is New Edition’s frontman, Johnny Gill, and bringing the Caribbean vibes on Saturday and Sunday are Roots Reggae legend, Luciano, Jamaican Dancehall singer, (Baby) Cham, and Trinidadian Soca Queen of Bacchanal, Destra.
Join us for delicious food, interactive food demonstrations and iconic musical headliners.
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Toronto's Mayors from Muddy York to Mega City
The Don - Inmates, Guards, Governors and the Gallows
Toronto's Mayors from Muddy York to Mega City
Thursday Sept 21 2023
7:30 pm
Etobicoke Historical Society
Montgomery's Inn : 4709 Dundas St W,
Frank Nicholson will help us see the history of Toronto unfold through the careers of some of the sixty-five chief magistrates the city has had since being incorporated in 1834, including our first mayor, William Lyon Mackenzie, the leader of the Rebellion of 1837, and Mel Lastman, who oversaw the amalgamation of the city and its suburbs creating Megacity, our current city, twenty-five years ago.
Frank Nicholson earned a PhD in history with a study of the establishment of metropolitan government in London, England, during the late 19th century. Frank worked for many years in Ontario’s municipal sector, first as a senior policy advisor in the local government policy branch at the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing, and then as director of government relations for a municipal managers association. Since retiring, he has focused his energies on deepening his knowledge of our city’s history and sharing it with others by leading historical walking tours for Heritage Toronto and delivering talks at several local organizations.
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The Don - Inmates, Guards, Governors and the Gallows
The Don - Inmates, Guards, Governors and the Gallows
The Don - Inmates, Guards, Governors and the Gallows
Thursday Oct 19 2023
7:30 pm
Etobicoke Historical Society
Montgomery's Inn : 4709 Dundas St W,
Join writer and researcher Lorna Poplak as she presents the facts behind the Don Jail’s location and construction, and shares tales about inmates, guards, governors, gangs, officials, and even a pair of ill-fated lovers whose doomed romance unfolded in the shadow of the gallows. The illustrated talk will highlight the Don’s tumultuous descent from palace to hellhole, its shuttering and lapse into decay, and its astonishing modern-day metamorphosis.
Lorna Poplak is a Toronto-based writer, editor, and researcher with a fascination for the dark side of Canadian history. She is a member of Crime Writers of Canada and Sisters in Crime. Her two nonfiction books, both published by Dundurn Press, are Drop Dead: A Horrible History of Hanging in Canada (2017), and The Don: The Story of Toronto’s Infamous Jail (2021). In 2022, The Don was shortlisted for both the Crime Writers of Canada Excellence Award and the Heritage Toronto Book Award. For more information, please visit www.lornapoplak.com.
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Ongoing Events
Self Directed Walking Tour Montgomery's Inn: At the Intersection of Routes, Waterways and Fields
Self Directed Walking Tour Montgomery's Inn: At the Intersection of Routes, Waterways and Fields
Self Directed Walking Tour Montgomery's Inn: At the Intersection of Routes, Waterways and Fields
Re-imagine this urban landscape as your stroll the grounds of the 1830s Montgomery's Inn. From the land's enduring Indigenous use from time immemorial, to the Inn's time as a prosperous 19th-century settler inn and farm, you will discover history of the early Black inhabitants of Etobicoke and the 20th-century Chinese immigrants who rented this land to earn a hard-fought living by their own labour.
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Image credit: Toronto Historical Collection, Montgomery's Inn Photo Archive, 023A_004
Montgomery's Inn - Farmers' Market
Self Directed Walking Tour Montgomery's Inn: At the Intersection of Routes, Waterways and Fields
Self Directed Walking Tour Montgomery's Inn: At the Intersection of Routes, Waterways and Fields
The Montgomery's Inn Farmers Market operates year-round, Wednesday, 2-6 pm. Shop indoors this winter for local veggies, baked goods, prepared foods & more! Enjoy a fire in the fireplace and a free visit to the museum until 4 pm.
Free parking available.
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Mural Walking Tour
Self Directed Walking Tour Montgomery's Inn: At the Intersection of Routes, Waterways and Fields
Mural Walking Tour
Guided Mural Tours in the Village of Islington Outdoor Art Gallery
Discover one of Toronto’s most spectacular art treasures on a fascinating, free guided walking tour. Available year-round. Our knowledgeable guides will introduce you to 28 stunning murals and share their fascinating stories of life in the historic Village of Islington over the past 200 years. Enjoy these spectacular works by renowned Canadian artists during a 90-minute, 2-km walk along Dundas Street between Islington and Kipling Avenues. Most tours start and stop at our community museum Montgomery’s Inn at 4709 Dundas St. W. Etobicoke. Find out when the next available tour is by emailing the BIA office info@villageofislington.com.