Throughout the year the Literary Committee hosts events for members & guests.

Literary lunches are scheduled most Tuesdays of the month. A Literary Club Night presentation is generally held once a month on a Monday evening.

Literary Schedule for 2026

February

3 - Literary lunch – Marianne Miller, We were the Bullfighters

10 - Literary lunch – Susan Swan, Big Girls Don’t Cry

17 - Literary lunch – Antonio Michael Downing

23-27 LAMPSweek

March

3 - Literary lunch – Rachel Manley, George the Last, The Odd Escapades of an Improbable British Aristocrat

9 - Club Night – Andrew Coyne, The Crisis of Canadian Democracy

17 - Literary lunch – Winner of the 2025 Toronto Book Awards, Maggie Helwig, Encampment, Resistance, Grace, and an Unhoused Community

24 - Literary lunch – Bill Moreau, Writings of Explorer David Thompson

31 - Literary Lunch – Barry Lipson, How the Canadian People Became Who We Are

April

07 - Literary lunch – Robert Sharpe, My Life in the Law: Lawyer, Scholar, Judge

13 - Club Night – Dr. Brian Goldman, Casino Shift: Stories from an ER on the

Edge

21 - Literary lunch – Michael Bonner, In Defense of Civilization: How our Past can Renew our Present

28 - Literary lunch – Robert Rotenberg, One Minute More

May

05 - Literary lunch – Marc Egnal, Challenging the Myths of US History

11 - Club Night – John Boyko, In Pursuit of Tomorrow: The Inventive Life of Sandford Fleming

19 - Literary lunch – Kim Echlin, Tell Others: Storytelling for a World in Turmoil

26 - Cinq à Sept – Mark Huebner, Off the Cuff

June

02 - Literary lunch – J.D.M. Stewart, Prime Ministers: Canada’s Leaders and the Nation They Shaped

09 - Literary lunch – Greg Light and Rafael Mahdavi, The Dishwasher Dialogues

16 - Literary lunch – Keriann McGoogan, Sisters of the Jungle

23 - Fete Champêtre