History Speaker Series Click on the images below for more information and to register. 2024 History Speaker Series More details coming soon. Subscribe to receive communication about upcoming OMAH History Speakers. * indicates required Email Address *First Name Last Name Watch recordings of past History Speaker Series installments John Smith | The Tudhope Carriage Company Amanda Marino | A Leacock Love Story Evolution: Packet’s death spawns birth of digital newspaper History Education Through Art: C. W. Jefferys draws the history of Simcoe The Orillia Spirit is Born The Simcoe County Forest – ‘A Century of Growth and Renewal’ The Reality of Reconciliation in Canada and Abroad Mariposa Arts Theatre: 50 Years THE BLACK SWAMP GANG FROM VIRGINIA TO CANADA ELIZABETH WYN WOOD: RENOWNED SCULPTOR, ART EDUCATOR AND ORILLIAN THE ONTARIO FIRE COLLEGE – THEN & NOW FAIRMILE: THE LITTLE SHIP THAT MADE HISTORY BLACK VETERANS OF THE WAR OF 1812 YELLOWHEAD’S REVOLT THE LEGACY OF THE GROUP OF SEVEN ALFRED NOBEL AND CANADA’S PRIZE WINNERS BETHUNE: COMMUNIST, INNOVATOR, HUMANITARIAN, MUSKOKAN THE WAR OF THE WOODS THE PRISONERS OF GRAVENHURST THE HISTORY OF THE TRENT SEVERN WATERWAY HOME CHILDREN CANADA: BREAKING THE SILENCE THE DIEPPE RAID: 80 YEARS OF TRAGEDY AND TRIBULATION JACKSON’S WARS: A.Y. JACKSON, THE GREAT WAR AND THE BIRTH OF THE GROUP OF SEVEN LET THE FUR FLY! CATHY WALTON: VANISHING BARNS BRUCE MCRAE: THE SCULPTORS OF GREAT WAR STATUARY IN CENTRAL ONTARIO & BEYOND DAVE TOWN: ONE DEAD COW