Our NEwsletter ARchive
Over the past several decades we published a series of newsletters about historical happenings around Hamilton. These newsletters are available for download via the links below courtesy of the Head of the Lake Historical Society.
Head-of-the-Lake Historical Society Newsletters
Please view our newsletters at the ink below.
Print Publications
Hamilton: Panorama of Our Past: A Pictorial History of the Hamilton Wentworth Region
$15 (hardcover)
"...A truly amazing collection of photographs of life in Hamilton over a wide time span"
"...A book that is sure to become a keepsake for generations...Hamilton Panorama of Our Past is a delight." -- Brian Henley, The Hamilton Spectator
Downtown Hamilton: The Heart of it All
$10.00 (paperback) / ($50.00 –hardcover--SOLD OUT)
"Downtown Hamilton...shows us what we once were and still can be."
"...A wonderful odyssey through the city's past - its architecture, the social milieu, the traffic of life and culture that was pulled into a once vibrant nucleus." -- Jeff Mahoney, The Hamilton Spectator
In Search of The King's Head Inn.
$10.00 (soft cover)
Government House, known locally as King's Head Inn, was the first government building erected in the area. Its construction was ordered in 1794 by Governor Simcoe at a time when war between Great Britain and the U.S. was thought inevitable. This 52 page booklet describes the life and times of the area from the construction of the Inn to its destr
Thomas Baker McQuesten: Public Works, Politics and Imagination
$10 (hardcover)
".. A finely written and well-organized work, solidly based on extensive archival research. In detailing McQuesten's lasting contribution to the Ontario landscape, it admirably performs the central task of all history -- to delve into the past in order to explain the present." -- David A. Lenarcie, Ontario History
1876 Bird's Eye Map of Hamilton
$5.00 (soft cover)
1913 Hamilton Centennial Panorama
$5.00 (soft cover)
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