Glanbrook Heritage Society
Thank you for visiting the Glanbrook Heritage Society website. We welcome your return to check on our regular updates to the Events Calendars and Newsletters.
What's New
The Society’s membership annual dues, $15 per family, are now being gratefully accepted. Benefits include a copy of the quarterly newsletter, free research at the Society’s archives (including photocopies of material) and an opportunity to volunteer at the different events and activities.
Births, Deaths and Marriages from January to June 1897 from the Hamilton Spectator
available under the Archives/Reference section of the website.
Calendar of Events - Monthly Meetings and Community Events
- Monday, February 15 at 7:30 PM. Annual Show-and-tell party at Orchard Court, 2800
Library Lane. Bring an item of historical interest and explain its value.
- Saturdy, February 20, 2010 9 am to 3 PM - Book Fair, Grimsby. An inside venue and half a block from Main Street (full of coffee places and shopping!) Once again, volunteers are welcome to host our display table.
- Monday, March 15 at 6:00 P.M. Annual meeting and potluck supper at St. Paul’s Glanford Anglican Church, 2869 Upper James Street, Mount Hope. Members are requested to bring a ‘potluck’ and take part in the business meeting following supper.
- Monday, April 19 at 7:30 PM there will be a presentation on the Barton Stone scanning project, with copies of photos, news items and other tid-bits. Looking ahead to June, we’re asking for a site to host the annual strawberry social. Let Ron Sinclair know if you have a suggestion.
Projects of the Glanbrook Heritage Society
- Recording and scanning of the photos and news items collection of Barton Stone church - To date, Glanbrook Heritage Society has scanned over 2,500 of the 2,900 + pages providing about 3,200 imgages. Completion date is February 2010. Work on this project takes place on Monday and Tuesday mornings at Barton Stone to coincide with the church secretary’s hours. Help for this project is gratefully accepted!
- The inventory of heritage buildings for inclusion on a municipal register is still one of Glanbrook Heritage's major projects. This is not a designation process but an inventory only. The Society has a two page explanation of this listing process for those interested. The original list of properties has been updated and now requires a physical verification that the buildings still exist. It’s a matter of organizing the survey into workable sections of the former township, and literally driving to check on the property’s status.
Villages of Glanbrook
Click on the links below to discover more about the communities that form the region
of Glanbrook:
About The Glanbrook Heritage Society
To simplify local historical interests, one group was needed to collect, maintain and preserve the creation and history of the former Townships of Binbrook and Glanford. These were amalgamated to form the Township of Glanbrook in the Regional Municipality of Hamilton Wentworth in 1974. The Glanbrook Heritage Society is the name change ratified by the Glanford Historical Society (established as a registered non-profit organization in 1984) for use with the merger of the Binbrook Historical Society (est.in 1975), the Maggie Johnson Heritage Foundation (est. 1985) and the Glanford Historical Society.
Since the disappearance of Binbrook, Glanford and most recently Glanbrook more and more information vanishes forever as papers and pictures are destroyed and the older generations pass away along with their knowlege. To minimize the loss of this information the former societies have undertaken the task of collecting the history of the townships to be presented in the public in book form. This has been done to a certain extent with the publication of four books by the two historical societies.
Charitable Registration # 0673681-50
Webmaster: Maria Pyne
© Glanbrook Heritage Society 2009
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