Category: Events

A presentation on The Canadian Nightingale at the Elmvale Public Library, June 7, 2019, with thanks to librarian Jodie Delgado.

Saturday, April 27, 2019, 2:00-3:00 p.m., Gananoque Inn.

Participating in a panel discussion  on Selling Yourself and Your Book, with Terry Fallis and Ted Barris.

Thursday, November 8, 2018, 12:15 pm, Walter Hall, University of Toronto.

Pre-concert lecture for the Music in the Afternoon series of Women’s Musical Club of Toronto. Preceding a concert by Thomas Oliemans, baritone, with Malcolm Martineau piano.

 

Wednesday, September 26, 2018, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM, Ottawa Public Library – Main Branch, 120 Metcalfe St.

Ottawa’s history enthusiasts share their passion for our past! Local history experts will have 5 minutes each to tell you what ignites their curiosity about Ottawa’ history. Come and be enlightened (quickly!)

I’ll be talking about the story behind my young adult hockey book, 1907: Metcalfe Wins the Cup.

 

 

Sunday, January 21, 2018, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., Church of St John the Evangelist, 154 Somerset Street West, Ottawa

A concert to launch a new Canadian historical biography. Jane Cooper will read from The Canadian Nightingale: Bertha Crawford and the Dream of the Prima Donna. Ottawa musicians, Cara Gilbertson-Boese and Joanne Moorcroft, will bring together contemporary Canadian singers to recapture the lost voice of Bertha Crawford (1886-1937).

Thursday, November 9, 2017, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., Dominion Chalmers United Church, Woodside Hall, Ottawa

Renowned historian Tim Cook, will read from the second volume of his series on Canadians in the Second World War, Fight to the Finish, and discuss his work and his most recent title, Vimy: The Battle and the Legend. Also enjoy researcher Jane Cooper reading the letters of Private Sully Goes to War: An Eastern Ontario Boy Writes to His Girl from the Trenches in World War One.