Ancaster Village Heritage Community

Ancaster Village Heritage Community is a vibrant grassroots organization
celebrating the history of one of Canada’s oldest communities.
Our website name says it all:  www.saveancaster.com. 
It looks like the time to work together to do exactly that—SAVE ANCASTER.

PLEASE JOIN AVHC IF YOU ARE NOT A MEMBER. 
A $35 membership by e-transfer to www.saveancaster.com with your email and address is all it takes.  Donations are needed and welcomed.

A Tour Through Ancaster, Ontario, Canada.
Join me as explore the treasures of Ancaster, Ontario, Canada. A part of the Greater Hamilton Area, it’s home to notable attractions such as Tiffany Falls, Costco, Griffin House and St. John’s Church.

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A Message from Ancaster Village Heritage

Our mission is to preserve Ancaster’s precious heritage, to promote positive development as our community evolves and expands, and to ensure the safety and quality of life of the town’s residents.

WHAT IS GOING ON WITH 8 STOREY DEVELOPMENT ON WILSON STREET EAST?

The application is for exactly the same 8 storey building that was denied after the Province passed BIll 150.  That was due to what Ancaster Village Heritage Community can only see as remarkable intervention by the applicant lobbying the Housing Ministry.  Wording proposed by the applicant’s planner was added to…

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WHAT IS POSITIVE DEVELOPMENT?

AVHC SUPPORTS POSITIVE DEVELOPMENT IN THE VILLAGE CORE  Ancaster Village Heritage Community has spent an incredible amount of time and money fighting the two big box developments proposed for the Ancaster Villlage Core.  An 8 storey proposal for the corner of Wilson St East and Academy, and a 7 storey…

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It takes a village – to create a traffic problem

This story originally published 10 years ago, but what has changed? It’s worse now than then, reputed to be the busiest intersection in the Region. It is dangerous. An Amica development of 170 units filled with seniors, many having cognitive and mobility problems, living at possibly the busiest intersection in…

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Wilson Street East at Mohawk Road, 1973

Wilson Street East, 1976.

Amber Glow Hotel, circa 1912

Hotel on the south-west corner of Wilson Street East

There was a hotel on the south-west corner of Wilson Street East and Academy Street from 1832. It burned down in 1878 and was rebuilt. The owner, John Crann, leased it to his son-in-law, Edward Henderson, who named it Henderson’s Hotel and opened it on May 22, 1879.

340-342 Wilson Street East in Ancaster

This house is located at 340-342 Wilson Street East in Ancaster.It is now a two-storey, double frame house.It was originally a single house and store built by James Wilson.He came to Ancaster from Ireland with his wife in 1846.He and his sons later (James T. Wilson...

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