On April 14, 1988, a rally for redress was held at Parliament Hill seeking justice for Japanese Canadian exile and internment during WW2. As we approach the 26th anniversary, join Lynn Deutscher Kobayashi to learn about racism, rallies, and the fight for redress.

Lynn Deutscher Kobayashi is a passionate community builder. She is on the steering committee of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation Anti-Asian Racism Coalition, a founding member of The Asian Canadian Women’s Alliance and past-NAJC vice-president, chair of the NAJC human rights committee which she currently sits on. 

A spectacular cliff 1.6 km long and 100m high travels along the equally deep waters of Mazinaw Lake in Bon Echo Provincial Park.
Bruce Mackenzie, a well known naturalist in Niagara, in his presentation will be featuring the avian and flora life found on the cliff’s face  including an ancient cedar forest along with the art from members of the Group of Seven inspired by the cliff and the historical indigenous pictographs found just above the water’s edge.

Join us as the GHS welcomes John Holbourne to the April Speaker Series as he presents "Indigenous Trails That Traverse North America".  The presentation includes the history of how trade goods moved through ancient pathways, trading patterns in the Grimsby area and how current trails reflect those patterns.  Beamer Trail and how the master plan for trails affects our local trails will also be discussed.

John is a long-term members of the Grimsby Historical Society and currently resides at the entry to Beamer Trail, on the site of a grist mill and a saw mill.  His work on the trail has been ongoing, specifically in the wetland areas - concentrating on drainage and rehydrating the land.