The Grimsby Historical Society history archive Ontario

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Meetings are held on the third Wednesday of each month from September to November and January to April at the Carnegie building, 25 Adelaide St. at 8 p.m., unless otherwise indicated below.
Membership runs from September 1st to August 31st, and includes meetings, three newsletters and GHS support activities. Annual membership is $18.00 for a single membership, $24.00 for a family. Single admission to a meeting is $5.00. The Society is a registered charity with Canada Revenue Agency and issues tax receipts for donations (not membership fees) in excess of $10.

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Watch for the 3rd Annual Book Fair, to be held on Saturday, February 19th, 2011 at the Grimsby Senior citizen Centre! See you there.

REGULAR MEETINGS - 2010

Unless otherwise noted, meetings begin at 7.30 pm.

Wednesday, September 15th, Memory Hall, Trinity United Church - 7 pm, Pie Social & Niagara Button Boxers. An entertaining way to start the season!

Wednesday, October 2, Carnegie Commons - "Food, Farming and the War of 1812" by Cheryl McDonald and Bob Blakely

Wednesday, November 17th, Carnegie Commons - "The Home Children" by Elaine Guther

Wednesday, January 19, Carnegie Commons - "The Grimsby 1812 Bicentennial Committee" , represented by Brian Purdy

Wednesday, February 16, Carnegie Commons - "Sambo, the Story of the Walter Cromwell Family and its Connection to the Original Book of Negros" by Walter Cromwell of Beamsville.

Wednesday, March 16, Carnegie Commons - "Strange Fatality, the Battle of Stoney Creek, 1813" with author James Elliott.

Wednesday, April 20, Carnegie Commons - "The Fry House & the Jordan School House" with Lincoln historian Helen Booth.

Wednesday, May 18th, Memory Hall, Trinity United Churchy - Annual Pot Luck Dinner, 6.30pm followed by GHS Annual General Meeting, and at about 8 pm, Dorothy Turcotte's short play "Fathers of the Forty" about the first municipal meeting held on this very site.

Please join us on any of these evenings!

Interested researchers, genealogists and history lovers are invited to visit the Archives Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings between 8.30 and noon, on Monday afternoons from 1 to 3 pm or by appointment. Or you may telephone us, or send an e-mail message to archives@grimsbyhistoricalsociety.com.