The next Wessex Society Lecture will be held on Wednesday, March 11, at 7:30 pm, at the Paul Pope Centre for Film and Television, 40 Strawberry Marsh Road. Please be advised that the doors will be opened at 7:00 and will be locked promptly at 7:30. Please use the East entrance only.
The speaker is Writer and Journalist, Heather Barrett, who will speak on the topic “The Mill Girls: the teenaged girls and women who left Newfoundland during the 1940’s to work at the British Commonwealth’s largest textile mill in what is now Cambridge Ontario.
This lecture will also be presented by Zoom. Please visit the Wessex Society of Newfoundland website, the Lectures and Gatherings page, and click on the link to attend.