**The Toronto History Walks Explorer Pass is available. Get it now for $125.00 for 1 year of unlimited tours, email
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for more information or for signing up!**
I started this walking classroom when we were under that horrible cloud called Covid. This series was popular and helped people get out and back into society and life. And talk. And share knowledge. Talking and sharing ideas, the backbone of our democracy. Lectures on the Go is an informal way of sharing ideas. It's not a class room with podium, we meet in the PATH system and find a comfortable seat and talk and share ideas about the topic.
The series is back for 2025 with 8 new topics for exploration over the winter and spring months.
The "Lecture on the Go" Series is open only to members who have purchased the YEARLY MEMBERSHIP PASS, it's free for those members. If you wish to attend a lecture and you are not a yearly pass member then the price per lecture is $20.00.
This fourth lecture is about a fascinating part of the world. The history of China, and its role in the new world order. With over a billion people China is an emerging giant, and has been a force in our world since the mid twentieth century. Like it or mistrust it, China is part of a growing Asia in politics and in the social fabric of the far east.
Big, bold China!
With place names like Peking, Wuhan, Fuzhou, Shanghai, exotic names from history. Famous roads and famous battles, trade routes to the new world, and the onslaught of evil communism. Red China was the go-to name for oppression. After 1949, the world changed, and a new world order emerged!
China has always been relegated to the borders of our world and consciousness. It was an exotic land on the other side of the Pacific. What mystical things went on in China? The world looked east!
The search for a northwest passage to China was the epic quest for thousands of Europeans in the mid to late 16th century. The spices and the silk, and the minerals of the far east and India, beckoned.
China was a land closed to the world like most of the far East. Good example was Japan. It took the Europeans and their strength to crack open the door to the far east. Exploration of the entire world finally got under way.
In Canada, the Chinese workers built our infrastructure, the Canadian Pacific Railway. They formed tightly controlled Chinatowns in all the major cities of North America, racism was a by-product, and haunted the Chinese from place to place. It was after the great 1906 earthquake in San Francisco that Chinatown became a place, a home to thousands of displaced peoples. In Canada, hatred of these same builders threatened to tear apart the very foundations of our new nation.
In Toronto, the old "Ward" was the place of the immigrants and Chinese Canadians thrived in the enclave, always looking outward for new opportunities. And that came in the mid 1950s with the building of Nathan Phillips Square. The story of China is a fascinating story of heroism and heartbreak.
This is the story of China.
Upcoming in the series:
*The European Slave Trade 1490-1834
*Philosophy 1: Great Minds of the Western World: Goethe to Kant!
*The Dominance of the Western World and How we Still Rule!
*Philosophy 2: Great Minds of the Eastern World: Chuang Tzu to Dalai Lama
Hope to see you on this "Lecture on the Go!" So book your plans now!
This event is for all levels and walkers, there are a few steps here and there to navigate, but mostly on one level. We are mainly inside for this event in the underground PATH system.
The lecture/tour begins on the steps of Old City Hall at the northeast corner of Bay Street and Queen Street West.
This lecture/tour event has a ticket price of $20.00 per person, and is free with the yearly membership pass. Hope to see you there!
** Please note: Please e-transfer the ticket amount when booking your space for this tour! You can e-transfer to the following email at:
torontohistorywalks@gmail.com
