Tag Archives: culture

Multicultural History Society of Ontario

Conservation/Preservation:

Archives

Contains materials related to ethnic and immigration history, including

  • ethnic newspapers, news releases
  • oral history tapes
  • historical photgraphs
  • microfilm collections
  • organizational records
  • personal records
  • passports, diaries, scrapbooks
  • documents from social clubs, mutual aid societies, churches, and political organizations.

Online Resources

Develops and manages digital collections and links to multicultural organizations with digital collections.

Public Programming:

Educational programming

Develops and distributes publications, mounts and circulates exhibitions, and stages conferences, public lectures, and special events. The MHSO also provides professional and technical services and training to teachers and students, scholars and community historians, heritage and cultural organizations, and members of ethnicultural and indigenous communities.

Exhibitions

Travelling exhibits related to ethnic, racial and immigration history are available such as,

  • Chinese Canadian Women, 1923-1967
  • Family Stories, Treasured Memories
  • Many Rivers To Cross: The African Canadian Experience

See the MHSO website for more information about the SOciety’s exhibitions.

Online

The MHSO has developed a number of virtual exhibis and digital learning resources. Links to these sites can be found through the society’s website:

  • http://mhso.ca/wp/multi-faceted-websites/
  • http://mhso.ca/wp/learn-online-resources/

Oral History Museum

Gallery contains oral testimonies with photographs and multimedia technology, illustrating immigration adaption in late 20th-century Toronto. The Museum contains over 9,000 hours of interviews from members of 60 ethnic groups.

National Ballet of Canada Archives

Conservation / Preservation:

Archives

Records of the company from 1951 to the present including,

  • Costumes
  • Dance materials
  • Photographs
  • Posters
  • Programmes
  • Videos

Library

The Erik Bruhn Library and Archive Video Collection contains over 2,500 items related to dance, theatre, music, scenography, choreography, and anatomy.

Public Programming:

Online Programming

The Virtual Museum is an online gallery featuring items held within the National Ballet Archives. Items digitized for inclusion in the National Ballet’s Virtual Museum are catalogued and preserved in The Helen G. Balfour Soutron Database.

Ontario Heritage Trust

Public Programming:

The OHT runs the Provincial Plaques Program (the familiar blue and gold plaques), coordinates Doors Open province-wide, runs the Doris McCarthy Artist-in-Residence Centre and coordinates the Lieutenant Governors Ontario Heritage Awards and the Young Heritage Leaders Awards

The OHT operates museum and heritage sites across province, including Uncle Tom’s Cabin Historic Site, Enoch Turner Schoolhouse, Fulford Place Museum, Homewood Museum, the Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre Centre and George Brown House.

All Trust sites are interpreted through a combination of plaques, public programs, tours, exhibits and displays.ard of Directors.

Publications

Special publications including magazine Heritage Matters.

Other

Special events such as plaque unveilings, open houses, and workshops.