Glanbrook Heritage Society
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Calendar of Events - Monthly Meetings and Community Events
- There will be no Glanbrook Heritage Society Meetings in Jaanuary
- Friday, February 10, 2012. Head-of-the-Lake Historical Society takes pleasure in announcing that the Heritage Dinner for 2012 will be a musical one. The heritage stylings and instruments of the Cottonwood Brass will be featured. The band members will tell us the history of some of their instruments, including a tuba made by Grossman of Hamilton, and they will play some selections from the Civil War era as well as some Hamilton compositions, including military marches connected to the 13th Battalion (the RHLI). Other surprises await! This is sure to be a best seller so make sure to order your tickets soon. Tickets will be on sale at the January 13th meeting or you can reserve by calling David Beland at 905-549-4407 or emailing him at dbeland@istar.ca.Tickets are $40 and the dinner will be at the Waterfront Banquet Centre, 555 Bay Street North. Cocktails are at 6 pm and dinner at 7 pm. Don’t miss out! Reserve now!
- Monday, February 20, 2012 at 7:30 PM Orchard Court, 2800 Library Lane, Binbrook.
- Monday, March 19, 2012 at 6:00 PM St. Paul`s Glanford Anglican Church, 2869 Upper James St. Mount Hope. This is the annual potluck
supper and business meeting. Bring donations to the communal dinner, which usually works well.
Projects of the Glanbrook Heritage Society
On the Canadian Headstones website, we’ve contributed over 5,000 names from about 3,000 images. The completed cemeteries are North
Glanford, St. Paul’s, Case, White Church,Binbrook United, Glanbrook Municipal and Book in Ancaster. Cemeteries that have been
photographed but not yet sent are Bowman, WhiteBrick and Garner in Ancaster and Barton Stone, Hamilton. Partial photos have been taken in
Trinity, St. Joseph’s and Knox, Binbrook and Red Brick, Carluke. All nine stones at Smith cemetery,Ryckman’s Corners are recorded. Thanks to those
who have helped; Ron Sinclair, digger of dirt and cleaner of stones; Laura Martin who did BinbrookUnited over the summer; Anne Charlton , another
digger and cleaner, writer of inscriptions and verses; Shirley Rumbles, researcher of initialsresulting in full names. A good effort by all. Now,
next spring.......
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.
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Webmaster: Maria Pyne
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