The GHS Evenings with History Lecture Series

ABOUT OUR LECTURE SERIES

We believe that learning about our past is essential to understanding our present, and our future.
Our guest speakers are members of our community with a specialized knowledge in the topic of the lecture.
Although our Evenings with History series is free-of-charge, we REALLY appreciate your support through an annual membership and/or donation. Become a member now.

DATE: First Tuesday of the month

TIME: 7:30 pm

PLACE: Guelph Civic Museum, 52 Norfolk Street

VIDEO ARCHIVES

October 2026

Guelph's Unknown Cemetery

Speaker: P. Brian Skerrett, local historian, GHS Board Member, Past Chair of Heritage Guelph, and President of Urban Park Guelph.

February 2026

Darkness and Light: Inside the Ontario Reformatory

Speaker: P. Brian Skerrett, local historian, GHS Board Member, Past Chair of Heritage Guelph, and President of Urban Park Guelph.

April 2024

Engaging Students with Historical Research Using Narratives of WWI Soldiers

Speaker: Erin Doupe

March 2024

Bridges to the Past

Speaker: Susan Ratcliffe

February 2024

A Stolen Life: Searching for Richard Pierpoint

Speaker: Peter Meylor, author

April 2023

John Galt, the Indigenous, & The Founding of Guelph: A Tangled Story

Speaker: Dr. Gil Stelter

Recording by Rogers Cable 20

February 2023

Valuing What We Can't See: The Ontario Reformatory

Speaker: P. Brian Skerrett

May 2022

Crime and Punishment - Guelph and Wellington's Legal Past

Speakers David Cameletti and Leanne Caron

April 2022

Guelph in Postcards

Speaker: Cameron Shelley

March 2022

"Skill in Inebriation": Martial Masculinity, Alcohol and the British Army in the War of 1812

Speaker: Jesse Abbott

February 2022

Barn Raisings, Threshing and Quilting Bees: The Stories Rural Diaries Tell

Speaker: Catharine Wilson

December 2021

Guelph Through the Lens of a Folk Artist/Musician/Storyweaver

Speaker: Gregory Denton

November 2021

The Carillon Bells of St. George's

Speaker: Don Hamilton