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Resources for Geog 1HA3 "Ancaster Walking Tour" Assignment

Maps & Air Photos
City Planning Documents
Books
Journals
Internet Resources
Postcards & Photos

 

Maps and Air Photos

The Lloyd Reeds Map Collection, Mills Library has:

current and superseded editions of City street maps with land use information, HSR bus route maps, trail maps, walking tour maps, topographic maps, fire insurance plans (Ancaster 1947 & 1964) and air photos from 1919-2005.

An Ancaster base map prepared for use on this assignment is available to download or print from the link below. A paper master copy is available for photocopying in the Lloyd Reeds Map Collection.

The City of Hamilton website, map.hamilton.ca includes:

  • "Map Gallery": hundreds of pre-produced maps in Adobe Acrobat format for viewing or printing.
  • "Interactive Mapper": zoom, pan, turn layers in the map legend on and off, switch to air photo layer, view and print.

 

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City Planning Documents

Hamilton’s Heritage [heritage buildings in Hamilton](online)

volume 1
volume 2
volume 3
volume 4
volume 5
volume 6
volume 7A

 

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Books

Available in the Lloyd Reeds Map Collection, Mills Library:

Bowes, Arthur., and Ancaster Township Historical Society. Ancaster: A Pictorial History. Ancaster, Ont.: Ancaster Township Historical Soc., 1999.

Ancaster Township Historical Society. Ancaster's Heritage: A History of Ancaster Township.: Ancaster Township Historical Society, 1973.

Farmer, Thomas Devey Jermyn. A History of the Parish of St. John's Church, Ancaster: With Many Biographical Sketches of Those Worthies Who in the Early Pioneer Days and Afterwards Established and Maintained It, and Most of Whom Rest in Its Hallowed Ground : With Numerous Poetic Allusions and Quotations. Guelph [Ont.]: Gummer Press, 1924.

St. John's Anglican Church (Ancaster, Ont.). Our Heritage, St. John's: A Sesquicentennial Publication, 1816-1966. Ancaster, Ont.: [The Church], 1966.

Pinch, Charles, and Ancaster Township Historical Society. Anglicanism in Ancaster From 1790 to 1830. [Ancaster, Ont.]: Ancaster Township Historical Society, 1986.

King, Leslie J. One Hundred Years of Golf: The Hamilton Golf and Country Club, 1894 to 1994. [Ancaster, Ont.]: Hamilton Golf and Country Club, 1993.

Nina Chapple. A Heritage of Stone: Buildings of the Niagara Peninsula, Fergus and Elora, Guelph, Region of Waterloo, Cambridge, Paris, Ancaster-Dundas-Flamborough, Hamilton, and St. Marys, 2006.

 

City Directories show what person or what business was located at an address in a specific year. McMaster Library has the following suburban city directories for the City of Hamilton which cover Ancaster:

  • Current edition (2013) is kept at the Mills Library Service Desk, 2012 edition at the Thode Library Service Desk.
  • 1950 to 1996 editions are in microfilm format and are kept in the Map Collection
  • 1997-2011 editions are in paper format and are kept in the Map Collection

 

To find other books... search the McMaster University Library Catalogue

 

Hamilton Public Library has an excellent collection of books about local history (HPL, Local History & Archives Dept.)

 

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Newspapers & Journals

 

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Internet Resources

(This is not a complete list -- just a few suggestions to get you started!)

Ancaster Township Historical Society

Architectural Styles of Stone Buildings in Ancaster

 

Hamilton Public Library

 

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Postcards and Historical Photographs

Vintage Postcards of Hamilton, Ontario

Postcards from Hamilton's Past

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Contact: mapref@mcmaster.ca
Last Reviewed: February 15, 2014
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