Name: Book Launch: The Gaol Carpenter's Diary by Chris Higgins
Start: 2025-11-30T14:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-11-30T15:00:00-05:00
Location: Humbercrest United Church

Book Launch: The Gaol Carpenter's Diary by Chris Higgins

Chris Higgins, Author

Come to the exciting book launch of "The Gaol Carpenter's Diary" by Chris Higgins, where you can meet the author and get your copy signed.

Humbercrest United Church

Step into Victorian-era Toronto, where markets, alleys, bridges, and courtrooms shaped the modern city. In The Gaol Carpenter’s Diary, West End author and historian Chris Higgins blends meticulous research with a compelling narrative voice to reimagine real criminal cases and the lives around them — from inside the Home District and Don jails, and across the neighbourhoods we live in today.Drawn from real historical records, these stories look beyond the headlines to crimes that could still be in the headlines. But with one crucial difference: that was an era of capital punishment.Join us for a presentation of reading, images, and conversation. Chris will share the places behind the pages — then-and-now photos, historical maps, and the detective work that built the book — followed by audience Q&amp;A and a signing.Whether you love Toronto history, true crime, or literary fiction rooted in place, this launch welcomes you into the workshop of a historian-storyteller. Come meet the author, pick up a signed copy, and help us mark the start of a project that invites readers to explore the city on foot, one chapter at a time.

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