Coming events

As part of our mission to spread the word about The Collection, the Friends from, time to time present entertaining and informative events relating to Arthur Conan Doyle and the Collection.

Cameron Hollyer Lecture 2025

Alex Hutchinson

New York Times bestselling author

Conan Doyle’s Lost World: Filling in the Blank Spaces on the Map

Saturday, November 29, 2025 2:00pm

Beeton Salon
Toronto Reference Library
789 Yonge Street
Toronto

Free to the public

Alex Hutchinson is an award-winning journalist who writes about science, adventure travel, and fitness. He writes regular columns for The Globe and Mail and Outside magazine, and is the author most recently of the national bestseller The Explorer’s Gene: Why We Seek Big Challenges, New Flavors, and the Blank Spots on the Map.

Cameron Hollyer Lecture 2024
November 30, 2024
Ray Betzner


Cameron Hollyer Lecture 2023
November 4, 2023
Dana Richards


Jubilee@221B
September 22-25, 2022
Keynote speaker - Nicholas Meyer


Visit the Friends' YouTube Page

where you can see other related video presentations, including:

  • Clifford Goldfarb on Conan Doyle in Egypt
  • Barbara Rusch's introduction to Sherlock Holmes
  • Previous Cameron Hollyer Memorial Lecture videos