• Jeanie Quirt-Brown – A Story Close To Home

    Aurora Legion Hall 105 Industrial Parkway North, Aurora, Ontario, Canada

    A Story Close to Home: Our Own Jeanie’s Family History This Remembrance Day, we are honoured to feature one of our own Aurora York Central PROBUS members, Jeanie. She has written a book about her father’s Second World War experience in the Royal Canadian Air Force and as a prisoner of war, a deeply personal […]

  • Lianne Harris – The Silk Road

    Aurora Legion Hall 105 Industrial Parkway North, Aurora, Ontario, Canada

    Lianne was a former Social Studies/History Resource Specialist Consultant with the Toronto District School Board and curriculum advisor for Upper Canada College, having taught over 100,000 teachers and students.  Some of her initiatives have been indexing the Freedman Bureau Records for the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., and curriculum development and business start-ups in India.  […]