Glanbrook Heritage Society
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Calendar of Events - Monthly Meetings and Community Events
- Monday, May 28 at 7:30 PM Regular monthly meeting at St. Paul’s Anglican Church, 2869 Upper James Street, Mount Hope. A presentation of the Panabaker family art collection,
presented by his grand-daughter, Amy Hunter.
- Monday, June 18 at 7:00 PM Annual strawberry social at the home of Bill and Laura Martin, 3146 Cemetery Road, Binbrook. Their home is the former S.S. #3 Binbrook schoolhouse. Bring a lawn chair, just in case.
Important Message from Ron Sinclair, President
As we approach another Annual General Meeting, I’ve been giving thought to challenges facing our Society. Some of this is prompted by periodic inquiries from the city about
our space in the Municipal Service Centre and Brad Clark’s recent rant about selling suburban centres. What would we do if we lost our archives and office? Other challenges facing most heritage societies include declining participation in monthly meetings and an aging membership. These challenges prompt questions about the mission of our
Society and whether we are meeting the needs of our members and the broader community. In anticipation of our AGM on March 19, I ask each of you to give thought to the future
of the Glanbrook Heritage Society. Is it meeting your needs as a member? What is its role in the community? In order to re-energize our Society and, given the discussion that I hope is stimulated by these questions, your Board can develop an action plan to recommend to the membership. Ron Sinclair, President.
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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.
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