Algonquin College Speaker Series Presents . . .

The Algonquin College Speaker Series Series at the Pembroke Waterfront Campus has been attracting some of Canada’s most interesting speakers for more than 25 years. To register for any of our Speaker Series events please register online using the Eventbrite links below. This series is funded in part by the Government of Canada’s new Horizons for Seniors program.

Join Canadian author and historian Charlotte Gray for a presentation on her new book, Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons on Thursday, April 23rd at 7 p.m. at the Pembroke Waterfront Campus. The book tells the story of how the mothers of two of the world’s great leaders, Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt shaped their sons lives helping to transform them into leaders. This is an in person presentation, but can also be accessed online by pre-registering at the link below.

Past Events

Watch our speaker series with Jamie Bramburger on the 1942 Almonte train wreck. Based on his book, Sudden Impact-The Almonte Train Wreck of 1942, Jamie presents the tragic stories of the crash which killed 38 people and injured more than 150 others when a troop train slammed into the back of a Local passenger train on December 27, 1942.

Watch our speaker series with investigative journalist Julian Sher on the Steven Truscott case. In 1959, Truscott was only 14 years old when he was charged and convicted in the murder of a 12-year old classmate, Lynne Harper, at the Clinton Air Force Base in Southern Ontario. He spent ten years behind bars and then lived under an assumed name until he was acquitted of the crime in 2007 when the Ontario Court of Appeal called his call a “miscarriage of justice.”