Scarborough Historical Society

The History of Masaryktown
2019-11-26 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Toronto)
Rick Schofield, Historian
Masary Memorial Institute is a non-profit organization located at 450 Scarborough Golf Club Road serving people of Czech and Slovak origin since 1945 to promote their cultural heritage. The residences were built in 1990. A restaurant is also on-site that is open to the public.
Bendale Library, 1515 Danforth Rd
Scarborough, ON M1J 1H5 + Google Map

Dambusters
2019-10-22 19:30 - 20:30
Presented by Ted Barris, author of Dambusters
It was a night that changed the Second World War.
On May 16, 1943 nineteen Lancaster bombers carrying many Canadian air crews took off on a night sortie flying at tree-top level to the Ruhr River inside Germany to release specialized bombs against the hydroelectric dams.
The raiders breached two dams and damaged a third which devastated enemy power plants, factories and infrastructure one hundred miles downstream.
Of the nineteen outbound bombers eight did not return at a loss of fifty-three airmen including fourteen Canadians.
Bendale Library, 1515 Danforth Rd
Scarborough, ON M1J 1H5 + Google Map

The Whisky King
2019-09-24 19:30 - 20:30 | Bendale Library, 1515 Danforth Rd, Scarborough, ON, M1J 1H5
The guest speaker for our programme on Tuesday, September 24th will be
Trevor Cole, author of The Whisky King. It’s a remarkable true story of
Canada’s most infamous bootlegger and the undercover Mountie who
finally nabbed him.
At the dawn of the 20th century Rocco Perri rose from the life of a petty
criminal on the streets of Toronto to running the most prominent
bootlegging operation of the Prohibition era. Perri was feared by his
enemies and loved by the press. He caught the interest of one man in
particular, Frank Zaneth. Zaneth joined the RCMP and became its first
undercover investigator.
The Scarborough Historical Society hosts programmes on the 4th Tuesday
of each month from January to April and from September to November. All
programmes begin at 7:30 p.m. at the Bendale Public Library, 1515
Danforth Road, Scarborough, ON M1J 1H5 and are free and open to the
public.
