Events
Our founding members were faced
with a challenge when developing ways to achieve our
objectives of promoting professionalism and facilitating networking among
guides as well as providing opportunities for
continuing education for guides. How could they do all this at a
reasonable cost and with the small number of organizers available?
The answer was our Events program which they developed in the first years of
our existence. The Events program has become the keystone in our efforts to
achieve our
stated objectives and is still flourishing after many years.
You are invited to read a
write-up of one of our day-long educational events to give you an idea of
what we do on one of these occasions to improve our knowledge of popular
local spots of interest and historic significance.
Click here to read "An Outing to the
Niagara Frontier". (If you enjoy this article, you will find several
more sample articles on our Newsletter page.)
Each year a series of events is developed. It includes educational field
trips both local and out-of-town with visits to museums and other venues and
attractions. Since the program started in 1991, we have visited most tourist
attractions and venues in the Toronto area and adjacent regions. To see just
a partial list of these attractions,
please click here.
One of the true highlights of
our events program is our annual Nancy Ross Honsberger Memorial
Evening, a lecture series with major topics of interest to guides in our
region as the subject matter. (Click here to
learn more about the Nancy Ross Honsberger evening.) In 2007 we were delighted to have Bruce Bell
as our speaker. His topic was the history of theatre in Toronto and he is an
acknowledged expert as well as an excellent tour guide himself. We thought
we knew a good deal about the theatre in Toronto. Bruce put us to shame
(nicely) and enlightened us at the same time.
The Events programs for the years 2001-2006 were so popular that we were faced with
sell-out situations on many occasions. The 2007 program is now underway
and we hope for similar success. Our members' concern for continuing
professional development seems to know no bounds.
All events are made available to members at cost (free, if possible).
We welcome the enthusiasm with
which local venues and institutions have greeted the program and helped make
it possible for us to organize visits to them. We look forward to
their continuing cooperation and participation.
We also would welcome more
participation by local guides who have not yet joined CTGA of Toronto.
If you think you would benefit from this program please proceed to the
Membership
pages to learn how to join and begin deriving some of the benefits of CTGA
of Toronto.
Current members of
CTGA of Toronto should visit the Members Only
pages of this web site for information on coming events.
To see a list of areas, venues, etc. that we have visited as an association
of guides in the last four years, please click here.
