The Women's Canadian Club of Toronto

St. Andrew's United Church
117 Bloor Street East, Toronto
Wheelchair accessibility via Hayden Street

is an urban designer, teacher, writer and Principal of Greenberg Consultants. For over four decades he has played a pivotal role on public and private assignments in urban settings throughout North America and Europe, focusing on the rejuvenation of downtowns, waterfronts, regional growth management and new community planning. He will be speaking to us about his current major Toronto projects including The Bentway and Project Sidewalk.

St. Andrew's United Church
117 Bloor Street East, Toronto
Wheelchair accessibility via Hayden Street

is Vice President of the Ontario Black History Society. OBHS was established 40 years ago to preserve and promote the contributions of Black peoples in Ontario and Canada at large. It provides research materials for professional development, exhibits and Black History presentations to promote the understanding of Black heritage in Ontario. Ms. Oyeniran will be speaking about Black women in Canadian history.

St. Andrew's United Church
117 Bloor Street East, Toronto
Wheelchair accessibility via Hayden Street

is an Executive Coordinator at Second Harvest. She will tell us more about this organization and its role in food rescue in Canada. She will outline where the food comes from, where it goes and how it is distributed to many social service agencies. She will advise us on how everyone can prevent food waste in this time of so much food insecurity.

St. Andrew's United Church
117 Bloor Street East, Toronto
Wheelchair accessibility via Hayden Street

is a member of the Community Harm Reduction Response Team at Street Health. Street Health provides an essential service to those in downtown Toronto who are homeless or under-housed. Programs are aimed at improving the health and well being of clients – nursing, community health/mental health, harm reduction, and identification clinics. Street Health also does important advocacy work. Frank will draw from personal experience to illustrate the value and importance of harm reduction.

St. Andrew's United Church
117 Bloor Street East, Toronto
Wheelchair accessibility via Hayden Street

Ann has a passionate interest in early Upper Canada and has written several novels set in the 1800s. She teaches writing and is a free lance editor. Ann also lectures about Toronto's early history and conducts tours of some the city's historic houses.

St. Andrew's United Church
117 Bloor Street East, Toronto
Wheelchair accessibility via Hayden Street

Mairlyn will offer her insights into how to live a long and healthy life one new habit at a time. She is a regular guest expert on Cityline and Breakfast Television and will be sure to entertain as the "world's funniest home economist".

* Please note the later date in November

St. Andrew's United Church
117 Bloor Street East, Toronto
Wheelchair accessibility via Hayden Street

Barbara will share information from her book which is a dramatic, personal and detailed account of what occurred at Canada's largest fuse-filling munitions factory situated in Scarborough during WWII. Over 21,000 brave men and women risked their lives each day handling high explosives in a dedicated effort to win the war. Barbara was a consultant on the television show about Canada's Bomb Girls.