Flamborough Archives

Mandate: The Flamborough Archives' mandate is to collect and preserve archival material relating to the history, people, buildings and communities within the area that is known by, or has been known by the name Flamborough.

Research Policy and Fees:
      All researchers who are NOT Flamborough Heritage Society members and who come to the Flamborough Archives to do their own research under the guidance of the Archivist will be required to pay a $5.00 search fee. All researchers will pay 25 cents per page copied.

      If a request for research at the Archives is received by telephone, correspondence or Email, a fee will be charged based on an hourly rate of $20, dependent on the work involved and payable before work will commence. The minimum charge is $20 for any research request.

      For all requests submitted a reply will be sent. On receiving this reply fom the Archives, researchers will be requested to submit payment of the charges to The Waterdown-East Flamborough Heritage Society before work will commence. If an original record is held by the Archives, and requested, a photocopy will be provided with a charge of 50 cents per sheet. The Archives will not prepare family charts from the data extracted.

      The name(s) and address(es) of any other person searching the same family will be provided as this frequently results in the discovery of distant relatives. No research in other area libraries, archives or Land Registry Offices will be undertaken at the present

Hours: Monday to Friday, 10:00am to 4:00pm

Flamborough:       The name Flamborough has its origin in a small east coast village in Yorkshire, England, and like other such place names in the Niagara are, was given by John Graves Simcoe, during his term as Lieutenant governor of Upper Canada. The history of Flamborough dates from the last decade of the eighteenth century. First surveyed by Augustus Jones, when he laid out the Governor's Road (Dundas Street, or Highway #5) in 1793, the area was divided into three separate townships known as Beverly and East and West Flamborough.

      Waterdown, the largest urban area in Flamborough was surveyed and laid out as a village for Ebenezer Griffin during the 1830's. Buildings such as the American Hotel date from this period, and together with several fine stone homes, churches, and the former Township Hall reflect the prosperity of the community.

      On January 1st 1974, as a result of legislation passed by the Provincial Government, these townships united, becoming Flamborough Township, part of the Regional Municipality of Hamilton-Wentworth. By Order-In-Council, the status of Flamborough changed from Township to Town of Flamborough on January 1st 1985, and on January 1st 2001, the 'New' City of Hamilton incorporated the Town of Flamborough, thus ending 200 years of Flamborough History.