

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: “White Family, Black History, and a DEI Romance Novel” - Presentation by Sheila White
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 05 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Scarborough author, Sheila White, will give an illustrated talk about her biographical novel, “The Letters: Postmark Prejudice in Black and White” (2023, Yorkland Publishing).  

Drawn from diary accounts, familial correspondence, photos, and artefacts, the story revolves around a community’s opposition in the 1940s to the interracial courtship and marriage of the author’s white mother, Vivian Keeler, and Black father, “Billy” White, who went on to become a decorated Canadian. 

Their wedding took place in Toronto in June 1947. In the lead-up, an extensive letter-writing campaign, orchestrated by Vivian’s mother, tried to stop the union on racist grounds, but failed. 

Vivian, an intelligent, attractive and determined woman from a tight knit, Nova Scotia family defies convention to marry the man she loves - a charismatic and gifted member of a prominent and historically famous Black family from Halifax. 

A slide show is followed by Q&amp;A. Books will be available for sale and signing. “The Letters” is available at Toronto Public Libraries, from the publisher and at all major online booksellers.

https://www.sheilawhiteseminars.com/
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SHEILA WHITE BIO:
Scarborough-born author Sheila White is an award-winning community leader whose background includes local news reporting and editing, political and media work, and environmental activism. She is Music Director at Don Heights Unitarian Congregation, and a licensed Lay Chaplain. Sheila is a published songwriter and leads an open choir that performs mostly her original material. Sheila’s awards include an African Canadian Achievement Award, a Canada 125 Medal, an Urban Hero Award, a Queen's Platinum Jubilee Medal and a King Charles III Coronation Medal. A lifelong Toronto resident Sheila lives in Agincourt with husband Alex. “The Letters” is her debut novel. It was taught in the African-Canadian Literature course at the University of Toronto in October 2025.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/toronto/white-family-black-history-and-a-dei-romance-novel-presentation-by-sheila-white/200029491123921
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, black-history-month, coronation-weekend, workshops, music, entertainment
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 20

## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Toronto
- **state**: ON
- **country**: Canada
- **location**: 145 Annette Street, Toronto, ON, Canada, Ontario M6P 1P3
- **lat**: 43.6633
- **long**: -79.4664
- **full address**: 145 Annette Street, Toronto, ON, Canada, Ontario M6P 1P3

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: West Toronto Junction Historical Society (https://allevents.in/org/west-toronto-junction-historical-society/27151503)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 05 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 145 Annette Street, Toronto, ON, Canada, Ontario M6P 1P3
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** West Toronto Junction Historical Society
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art, black-history-month, coronation-weekend, workshops, music, entertainment
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about “White Family, Black History, and a DEI Romance Novel” - Presentation by Sheila White ?
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