Join us at the Thunder Bay Museum for this in-person class. This course is designed for ages 18 and up.
Description:
Do you love to sing? Come out for a 14-week journey enjoying the art of singing in an ensemble. This class is designed for beginner and intermediate singers. You will learn basic vocal techniques and how to sing with others. You'll sing repertoire from a variety of genres, including well-known folk, pop, soft rock, and gospel pieces. No audition, prior choral experience, or sight-reading skills are required! There will be a lovely final presentation of a Choir concert! Come on out and have some fun!
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Class Registration is $252 for Society Members and $280 for non-members. To purchase a membership, visit here: Membership Application.
The course starts on Wednesday, 15 January, and meets weekly.
Cancelled sessions will be rescheduled.
A minimum of 10 students must be signed up. Otherwise, the class will be postponed or cancelled and refunds issued.
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You Will Learn:
Instructor Tammy Wilson Biography:
Tammy Wilson is a professional singer, songwriter, musician, writer, vocal music educator, dance educator, choir director, arts & culture consultant Artistic director, and founder of Euphoria Productions.
Tammy has 30 years of experience in the performing arts as a professional singer and 25 years of experience as a music educator and commercial voice coach for professional singers. She was a voice coach for the following commercial music theatre productions and companies: The Full Monty (The Centaur Theatre), Guys and Dolls (The Centaur Theatre), The Sound of Music (Randy Kantor's Children's Company), Corporate Glee Competition (St. Denis Theaters) in Montreal, QC, Canada.
She has performed at a wide variety of musical venues; clubs, resorts, restaurants, coffeehouses, and Canadian Music Festivals (Du Maurier Jazz Festival Toronto, Ottawa Jazz Festival, Thunder Bay Blues Society Event, Red Rock Folk Festival, Cambridge Folk Festiva and Owen Sound Folk Festival). She appeared on Toronto's City-TV's Breakfast Television, was chosen as a featured Canadian Independent Artist, and was interviewed on Biography North, an Artist's Showcase program on CBC Radio North. She is currently working on her next musical project, which is original music, with guitarist and songwriter Adam Sabaz. She is also writing a book of memoirs that will be adapted into monologues.
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Parking
The Thunder Bay Museum has a free parking lot on the East side of the building, but there are only 16 spaces. On-street parking and other lots nearby are available, but please note that as of 1 June 2024, the City of Thunder Bay parking rates and times have been expanded as follows.
Short-term meter rates are in effect Monday to Saturday from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., free on Sunday.
There is a minimum $0.50 fee when parking in a metered space. There is no longer a time limit for metered spaces, and the 15-minute grace period at the end of paid time has been eliminated.
More information about the City of Thunder Bay parking and rates can be found here: https://www.thunderbay.ca/en/city-services/parking-rates-and-locations.aspx
March Break - Myth & Monsters
March Break camp runs from 9:00am-4:30pm with drop off times between 9:00am-9:30am and pick up times between 4:00pm-4:30pm. Camp is for ages 6-12.
Please note that March Break Camp will be canceled with full refunds up to 3 days' notice if there are:
- Under registered camp (e.g. less than 50% attendance)
- Issues with staff availability
Linked below you will also find the emergency contact form and photo release form.
**Other forms and further updates will be sent in an additional email closer to the camp start date.
**The emergency contact form and photo release form MUST be brought with you the first day you attend camp.
Emergency Contact and Photo Release Forms.pdf
**Spaces are limited**
Please do not hesitate to contact education@thunderbaymuseum.com if you have any further questions about our March Break Camp.
Please join us for the Annual General Meeting of the members of the Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society. This will be a hybrid event, with in-person and virtual attendance possible. Information on participation is below. Paper and digital copies will also be included with the next mailing from the Museum in mid-February.
Immediately after the AGM at 8:00 PM, please join the Society for the Free Public Lecture - Bryan Wyatt - The Rise and Fall of Thunder Bay's Two Professional Sports Franchises in the 1990's
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This will be an in-person event that is free to view. The lecture will be broadcast live via ZOOM for those who cannot attend in person and recorded and then to the Museum's YouTube at a later date.
"Stick it, Canada! Buy more Victory Bonds!" The First World War demanded deep personal sacrifice in the field and at home - even when home was far from the front. It also made unrelenting financial demands on both the governments and populations of Canada and Newfoundland.
Boosters and Barkers is a highly original examination of the drive to finance Canadian participation in the conflict. David Roberts examines Ottawa's calls for direct public contributions in the form of war bonds; the intersections with imperial funding, taxation, and conventional revenue; and the substantial fiscal implications of participation in the conflict during and after the war. Canada's six bond-selling campaigns received an astounding response, generating revenue that covered almost a third of the country's total war costs, which were estimated at $6.6 billion. This amount was modest in comparison with the burdens placed on European countries, but it was still a dramatic contribution from a dominion so distant from the front.
This story is one of in exorable need, shrewd propaganda, resistance, engagement, and long-term consequence. Boosters and Barkers mines a wide range of sources in Canada, the United States, and Britain to reveal how bond campaigns used coercive, modern marketing techniques - encompassing print, images, and music - to sell both the war and wide public participation.
Speaker Bio:
David Roberts is a retired editor at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography/Dictionnaire biographique du Canada. He has written several entries for the DCB/DBC on his own time as well as In the Shadow of Detroit: Gordon M. McGregor, Ford of Canada, Motoropolis (Wayne State University Press). His recent book, Boosters and Barkers: Financing Canada's Involvement in the First World War, is published by the University of British Columbia Press with support from the Canadian War Museum. He lives in Don Mills, Ontario.
The Thunder Bay Museum has a free parking lot on the East side of the building, but there are only 16 spaces. On-street parking and other lots nearby are available.
This lecture session is part of the Society's long tradition of holding free public lectures. From September to March, talks on a wide range of topics are held on the fourth Tuesday of each month at the Thunder Bay Museum.
The 2024-2025 Thunder Bay Museum lecture series is sponsored by the Lakehead University Department of History.
Please click the link below to join the webinar:
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International numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kei0lYXshl
This will be an in-person language event that is free to view. The lecture will be live broadcast on Zoom and recorded for posting to the Museum's Youtube Channel at a later date.
CLICK HERE TO JOIN THE WEBINAR
Bryan will discuss the rise of professional hockey and baseball in Thunder Bay in the 1990s. It will look at the development of the Thunder Bay Thunder Bay Hawks, which went on to be the Thunder Bay Senators and Thunder Bay Thunder Cats before the franchise was eventually sold and moved to Rockford, Illinois.
He will also discuss the development of the independent Northern Baseball League, and the ensuring history of the Thunder Bay Whiskey Jacks. The franchise went through a couple of ownership changes, and eventually led to a re-location to Schaumberg, Illinois.
The lecture will also focus on the similarities of the professional organizations, and the impacts on both fan bases, increasing cost of operation due to a large part of the businesses located in the United States and the eventual demise of both franchises as a locally-operated entity.
In the 1990's, Bryan Wyatt was the sports director in radio in Thunder Bay. He has been in broadcasting of radio and tv news and sports since graduating from the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology in Edmonton in 1977. His career brought him to Thunder Bay in September of 1979. He is currently the Radio News and Sports Director for 91.5 CKPR and Rock 94 under Dougall Media.
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This will be an in-person event that is free to view. The lecture will be broadcast live via Zoom for those who cannot attend in person; the event will not be recorded. Register early; space is limited to 70 seats for in-person attendance.
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Join us at the Thunder Bay Museum for this in-person class. This workshop is designed for ages 12 and up.
Workshop Registration is $35 for Society Members and $40 for non-members per session. To purchase a membership visit here: Membership Application
Future sessions will take place on the last Sunday of each month except December.
Cancelled workshops will be rescheduled.
See below for the class objectives, topics to be covered, information about the instructor, and supplies provided.
Description
Scrapbooking with a group of people is inspiring and a lot of fun. The group encourages one another to try something new, to go outside of their comfort zone. We share ideas, supplies, tools, and lots of laughter.
Each month we will learn about one of the basics of page design which will give you the groundwork from which you can develop your own style. These page designs work with whatever page size you’re working with – even cards. :)
By setting aside a day a month we push ourselves to get some scrapping done. It may be the only day we scrapbook or it could start us on a roll. :)
Come join us. Meet some new scrappers; learn some new scrapbooking tips and techniques and have some fun preserving your photos and memories.
Instructor:
Catherine Mochrie is a retired teacher with over 20 years experience in the education field having worked in the elementary and high school panels as well as with adult literacy. Catherine has delivered workshops on Writing and Communication at various conferences and in her local community. Catherine has been involved with teaching scrapbooking classes for over 15 years in Northwestern Ontario.
Kit and Supplies:
For more information, call Catherine @ 285-1395
Testimonials
“Scrapbooking with Catherine has opened my eyes to the importance of telling the story that belongs to a photograph. We are learning how to identify what needs to be expressed - beyond the photo itself - through the placement, the colours and tones of the background papers, or through additional embellishments. We are learning to use these techniques to make our personal stories and memories into beautiful pages, pages which become documents of a time and place for a future generation.” - Cathy Fretz
“Scrapbooking is helping me connect my genealogy charts, memoirs, history and photos in a lasting visual format. All the materials for the class are included making the getting started process easy. Catherine Mochrie has a lot of experience in scrapbooking and she offers many tips and ideas to help beginners and experienced "scrappers". The facilities at the museum are excellent and parking is a bonus." - RL
Cover image from the 1926 Canadian Pacific Route to Europe dining car
Use with permission from the Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection held in the Rare Books and Special Collections, University of British Columbia Library, catalog number: CC-TX-282-022
Join The Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society for our annual fundraiser and themed dinner at the Prince Arthur Waterfront Hotel. This year's theme is the Railroads. Our speaker is Dr. Thomas Blampied.
Tickets:
$125 for 1 seat
$230 for 2 seats
$920 for a whole table (8 seats)
Menu:
Based on an archival menu from a 1926 Canadian Pacific Route to Europe dining car menu.
**APPETIZER**
Fresh Sea Scallops With Gruyere
Cheese And Grilled Flatbread
**SOUP**
Cream of Lentil & Asparagus Topped With Creme Fraiche
**SALAD**
Waldorf Salad-Apple, Grapes, Celery, Raisins And Diced Chicken Tossed In Greek Yogurt Dressing On Bed Of Field Greens
**ENTREE**
Cambridge Sausage Bangers
Yukon Gold Mashed Potato Served With Burgundy Wine Glaze
Slivered Beef Sauteed With Carrot, Parsnip, Turnip, and Squash
Side - Baked Bean With Diced Pork Belly
**DESSERT**
English Plum Pudding With Hard Sauce
Coffee/Tea
Ice Water
Vegan Menu:
Veggie Plate with Vegan Friendly Dip
Broth Base Soup
Waldorf Salad - Apple, Grapes, Celery, Raisins Tossed In Greek Yogurt Dressing On Bed Of Field Greens
Vegetarian Sausage
Yukon Gold Mashed Potato Served With Burgundy Wine Glaze with Carrot, Parsnip, Turnip, and Squash
Side - Baked Beans
Ice Cream & Berries
Gluten Free Menu:
Cheese & Grilled Flatbread (Gluten Free)
Quarter Roasted Chicken
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Please contact reception@thunderbaymuseum.com with any dietary restrictions not found on the registration form.
Speakers:
Presentation Description:
150 Years of Rail in Northern Ontario: What Railway Development Meant to Canada
In 1875, construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway began near Fort William. The transcontinental railway united the nascent Dominion of Canada, shoring up political unity, promoting trade, and fostering settlement. It’s difficult to overestimate the impact of the railway on Canada, but the popular understanding of Canadian railway history only scratches the surface. In this talk, Thomas Blampied takes a big-picture look at railway development in Northern Ontario and beyond. This is a story of environmental change, treaties, cultural encounters, and challenges that Canada still faces today. This talk will set the stage for a deep dive into what railways meant for the Lakehead region.
Bio:
Dr. Thomas Blampied’s life has revolved around railways. Born and raised in Toronto, he completed his BA in history at the University of York in the United Kingdom to be near the National Railway Museum and its railway studies program. He returned to Canada, completing his MA in history at the University of Toronto, where he focused on model trains. After a hiatus working for Canada’s largest model train manufacturer, he returned to the University of Toronto to complete his PhD in history. He ultimately studied the impact of railway development on Indigenous communities, focusing on the Ontario Northland Railway around Moosonee and Moose Factory. He is the author of four books on Ontario railway history, and his photography has been published on three continents.
To be Determined
Fundraising Activities:
Bring your cash.
This year, there will be an exciting 50/50 draw and opportunities to buy tickets for door prizes.
Sponsorship Opportunities:
If you would like to make an additional donation to the Society to sponsor this event and offset expenses such as the guest speaker(s) travel costs, the raffle, or other overhead costs, please visit the link below and select A Taste of History or by calling 807-623-0801. Please put in the comments what you would like to sponsor, and the person or organization should be listed as a sponsor in the official program and communications about the event.
https://thunderbaymuseum1.wildapricot.org/Donate-Now
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