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Regular meeting venue: Sydney Unitarian Church, 15 Francis Street, Darlinghurst.
Branch Secretary: Anne Burns, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

We celebrate all things Dickens at five meetings per year plus a birthday celebration for Mr Dickens and a Christmas lunch. If you are living in or visiting Sydney, please feel free to attend our meetings ($10 per head). We no longer meet at the City Tattersalls Club. New venue is - the Sydney Unitarian Church, 15 Francis Street, Darlinghurst. Morning tea is 10.00am and meeting 10.30am.

Montreal

Website: www.dickensmontreal.ca

Regular meeting venue: Westmount Library First Tuesday of the month, 1:00 - 3:30 (currently on Zoom)
Contact: Ellie Clavier-Rothstein, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The Montreal Branch is a lively, active society. Each year we study one novel by Dickens and have several social events: celebrating Dickens's birthday; holiday party in December; Victorian tea in June. Once or twice a year Guest Speakers are invited to talk on topics relevant to Dickens, his period and his novels. The web-site is always kept up to date and newsletters are published regularly. The Branch supports The Tiny Tim Fund at the Children's Hospital. At the moment, all our activities (books, parties, speakers) are on Zoom and will probably continue in this way for the foreseeable future.

Niagara-on-the-Lake

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Contact: Robert Nunn, 52 Crescentwood Drive, St Catherines, Ontario L2N 4L2 Canada This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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Toronto

Regular meeting venue: Boz Reading Group meets on the 3rd Wednesday of each month, 7 pm, usually at Northern District Library, Toronto, currently meeting by Zoom

Branch President: Terry Sleightholm, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Branch Secretary: Barbara Rusch, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The Toronto Branch received its charter in 1905, the first Branch of the Fellowship in North America. Almost since its founding the Branch has raised funds to support children's hospitals, currently Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital. Regular events are our monthly meetings of the Boz Reading Group, the formal Dickens Birthday Lunch in February and a Welcome Brunch in September. Our major fundraiser is our annual Christmas Tea.

& Terry Sleightholm

Victoria

Website: http://dickensvictoria.50webs.com/

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Contact: Margaret MacKenzie
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Our year runs September to June. We read and discuss Charles Dickens's writings at meetings on the third Saturday (1:00 to 4:00 pm) of eight months in the year: September to November, and January to May.

We jointly choose the next book to read, although we aim at keeping more or less in rotation. For a longer novel, we may allocate two years. One or two of us (currently David Winn and Lawrence Sainsbury) choose the passages to be read at our meetings, aiming at a representative selection.

We also have a Christmas lunch (pot-luck) in December; a Dickens Birthday lunch in February (making two get-togethers that month); and a lunch plus Annual Meeting in June.We enjoy Dickens's humour; we admire his genius as a writer; and we are inspired by his sense of social justice.