Speakers offer photographic journey to Machu Picchu Wayne Tester introduced his daughter Lynn Miller and her husband Jim and provided some background for the presentation on their trip to Peru and Machu Picchu. Lynn and Jim took the pictures during their trip in 2015 while Wayne did the editing and composing of the program match-ing pictures with the pan flute […]

Cancer researchers seek solutions to hundreds of different mutations Don Walker introduced the guest speaker, his son-in-law, Dr. Michael Olson, who is a professor at Ryerson University in the Department of Chemistry and Biology. Michael is a graduate of the University of Alberta, where he got a Bachelor of Science degree in Genetics. He then went to the University of […]

Beaverdams church restoration a lengthy and costly project Bob Halfyard introduced guest speaker David Cowan, a well-known organist in Niagara, who was appearing in his role as President of the Friends of Beaverdams Church. David, a native of Thorold, illustrated his talk about the historic church with pictures showing various stages of the restoration work done over the past seven […]

Brian Narhi provides tips for tracing family roots. Duncan McLaren introduced Brian Narhi of St Catharines who chairs the St. Catharines heritage advisory committee and is a historian for Toronto based Archeological Services Inc. Brian has been awarded a Lieutenant-Governor’s Heritage Award for Lifetime Achievement. Brian began his presentation with an introduction to genealogy 101 stressing the importance of starting […]

Russ Milland goes in search of the Newfie Bullet Fellow PROBUS member Russ Milland has a keen interest in steam locomotion and railways. Russ gave a very interesting and lively travelogue presentation titled “In Search of the Newfie Bullet” based on his trip to Newfoundland and his search for stories and remains of the Newfie Bullet passenger train.d took 5,600 […]