Welcome to our NEW website to serve Port Colborne and Wainfleet area with a PROBUS Club. If you would like to know more about PROBUS Clubs, please visit the PROBUS Canada website. Our NEXT meeting will be Wednesday, Wednesday 25, 2026 at The Guild Hall, 72 Charlotte Street, Port Colborne, ON, L3K 3C8. Doors will open at 9:30 am for coffee and conversation and the meeting will begin at 10:00 am.

Our guest speaker will be Barbara Dickson, a well-established journalist.

A reminder to our members in good standing: we will still have a few membership spots open at the March 25^th meeting before we start the wait list. So tell your friends and bring them along  to sign up.

Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Barbara Dickson, our guest speaker, is an award-winning, best-selling, multi-published author, film documentarian, and sought-after professionally-trained speaker and local historian. She presents to myriad organizations such as retirement clubs and residences, charities, Canadian Royal Legions, and schools. Dickson’s speaking platform mirrors her passions: Bomb Girls, Irish memorials, MS, and heart transplantation. Individually, she focuses on the invaluable contribution made by Canadian women — Bomb Girls — engaged in war work especially in munitions factories such as GECO and DIL during the Second World War. She also brings awareness to important but little-known stories of nineteenth-century Canada including the impact  and legacy of Irish immigration. She, along with her husband have discovered over two hundred Irish memorials in Canada. From a medical standpoint, life with multiple sclerosis — MS — is another important topic in Dickson’s speaking portfolio. Lastly, Dickson — as a parent of the child who has undergone a heart transplant — speaks about organ transplantation in Canada especially through her perspective as a mother.

As a well-established journalist, Barbara Dickson’s magazine articles have appeared around the world as far away as South Africa, Germany, and California. Her debut novel, Mountains for Maddi, was published in 2009 to enthusiastic reviews. 

Dickson’s first non-fiction book, entitled, Bomb Girls: Trading Aprons for Ammo was released in September 2015. She has completed a follow-on book, entitled, Bomb Girls: United for Peace, which will feature 101 incredible Bomb Girls stories.