Serie 10 - Scrapbooks

Series consists of 5 scrapbooks of clippings and material including newspaper and magazine articles from the Hamilton Spectator, the Globe and Mail, the Stoney Creek News and the Canadian Homes and Gardens Magazine, as well as invitations, telegrams, correspondence, a postcard, event programs and souvenirs, announcements, and photographs, pertaining to various aspects of the Women’s Wentworth Historical Society and historical events that took place in Hamilton, as well as Toronto, Niagara and Halton. Subjects of the scrapbooks include articles on Society members and the Society’s historical preservation activities, the War of 1812, Battle of Stoney Creek, and soldiers’ monument, the opening of Stoney Creek Battlefield as a public park, the unveiling of various monuments, historical sites and anniversary commemorations, announcements of events and annual meetings, historic buildings, architecture, and landmarks preservation, various historical people such as the pioneers, Loyalists, and Scout Billy Green, as well as the royal visit of Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth II. One of the scrapbooks contains an Honour Roll of the men who died at the Battle of Stoney Creek during the War of 1812, and another scrapbook contains articles on the death of Sara Calder. Some scrapbooks also contain photographs of members and events including, a photograph featuring Mrs. George Lynch-Staunton, retiring President of the WWHS [1939], a photograph featuring Mrs. Lynch-Staunton, President, Mrs. W.H. Magill, Treasurer, Mrs. Bertie Smith, Secretary, Mrs. W.M. Logan and Mrs. G.W. Brown, 1st Vice-President [1939], a photograph of an unveiling of a historical plaque commemorating the Niagara Escarpment, featuring then mayor Victor K. Copps, Mrs. W.E. Griffin, President of the Women’s Wentworth Historical Society, Mrs. E.B. Thompson, Honourary President of the Society, Mr. L.J. Chapman, Ontario Research Foundation, and Dr. J.M.S. Careless of the Ontario Historic Sites Board, dated October 21, 1964, as well as a photograph of a sword with the following description on the back: “Sword carried by Billy Green the Scout, when he led the troops to Stoney Creek, June 5, 1813. Seen at the house of Philip R. Green, Stoney Creek, Mountain, July 1951.” There are also a few photographs of Battlefield House and grounds, as well as 11 photographs of the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Stoney Creek commemoration event that took place at Battlefield House on June 6, 1913. Some of the scrapbooks are in fragile condition with loose pages, crumbling paper, damaged spines and red rot staining.