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
Births, Deaths and Marriages from January to June 1897 from the Hamilton Spectator
available under the Archives/Reference section of the website.
Please visit www.canadianheadstones.com for photographs and information from local headstones of St. Paul’s Glanford and North Glanford cemeteries. Photos are available thanks to Jim McKane founder of the Canadian Headstones project. Between the two cemeteries, there are 650-700 photos and over 1,600 entries with information on the pictures.
Calendar of Events - Monthly Meetings and Community Events
The Society’s office will be officially closed for the summer months beginning June 21. We’ll re-open
on Thursday, September 2, just before Labour Day weekend. For summertime research, one can call for an
“appointment” - contact Art (905) 679-6315.
Projects of the Glanbrook Heritage Society
Recording and scanning of the photos and news items collection of Barton Stone church -
It’s finished. This was a collective effort by members of Glanbrook Heritage Society and we thank all those who helped with the project.
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. The final “drive-by” inspection is under way and by the summer’s end, we hope to have a final summary. It will never be completed since changes occur monthly but it will be up-to-date as of 2010.
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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