Happy Mother’s Day! Join us for a special afternoon tea at Hillary House and treat the special moms in your life. Happening inside our lovely heritage building, the menu includes a pot of tea, sandwiches, scones, and a variety of desserts. This event is on Saturday, May 10th and has a special ticket price for […]
Our popular Mother’s Day afternoon tea is back! Let’s celebrate the moms who are special to us by having tea at Hillary House National Historic Site. Happening inside the lovely heritage building on Sunday, May 11th. The menu includes a pot of tea, sandwiches, scones, and a variety of desserts. Pick from two seatings: 12:00pm […]
We may squirm and chuckle as we explore these eye-popping, head-shaking, bad advertisements from the past — but it is an important barometer to gauge what social values were important at the time. Whether these advertisements stemmed from the minds of ‘madmen’, or were cooked up in the stuffy offices of ad agencies, the world […]
Good conversation, relaxed atmosphere, delicious snacks, and art-making! In partnership with Royal Rose Art Gallery & Gifts, sign up for an evening of casual watercolour painting with guided instruction. Happening on Friday, June 6th at 7PM at Hillary House National Historic Site. Previous experience not at all required, but a masterpiece will be produced nonetheless! […]
At the end of WW1, wounded soldiers were returning to Canada in huge numbers, and the country was scrambling to find spaces to treat them all. In 1919, near Christie and Dupont streets in Toronto, a military hospital opened in a renovated cash register factory. Kristen's book, The Roosting Box: Rebuilding the Body After the […]
