All HPL Branches are closed on Sunday, October 12, and Thanksgiving Monday, October 13. Bookmobile is off the road. Extended Access and Study Hall services are not available. Regular service hours resume on Tuesday, October 14. Our Virtual Branch is open at hpl.ca.
Branch Closures - Thanksgiving
All Branches and Bookmobile Stops
Published:
Friday, October 3, 2025 - 2:00pm
Bookmobile Service Modification
Due to the ongoing Mohawk College Support Staff strike, the Bookmobile visit on Monday, October 6, is cancelled. You may select Terryberry Branch as an alternative location to pick up your Holds. On Wednesday, October 8, the Helen Detwiler visit is changed to 11-11:30 am this week.
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Bookmobile Stop:
Published:
Friday, September 26, 2025 - 3:00pm
Interlibrary Loan Service on Pause
Interlibrary Loan (ILLO) service will be temporarily paused starting Friday, September 26, due to continued negotiations between CUPW and Canada Post. We apologize for the inconvenience.
All Branches and Bookmobile Stops
Published:
Friday, September 26, 2025 - 1:00pm
Replacement and Damage Fees
Bring back your borrowed library items (due Oct 1 or later) within 28 days to avoid a replacement or lost fee. We'll remove the fee when you bring back your overdue items.
All Branches and Bookmobile Stops
Published:
Thursday, September 11, 2025 - 3:00pm
Kenilworth Branch - Temporary Closure (Sept 2 - Oct 14)
Due to roof repair maintenance, the Branch is temporarily closed from September 2 until October 14. Please visit the Red Hill, Parkdale, and Barton locations as your nearest branches for your library needs. Thank you for your patience.
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Published:
Monday, August 11, 2025 - 8:00am
Mayors of Hamilton and Dundas
Mayor Henry McKinstry (ca1805-1871). Mayor 1859-1861
Hamilton
1847: Colin Campbell Ferrie (1808-1856)
1848: George Sylvester Tiffany (1805-1586)
1849: William L. Distin (1789-1879)
1850: John Fisher (1806-1882)
1851: John Rose Holden (1821-1879)
1852: Nehemiah Ford (circa 1808-1860)
1853: William G. Kerr (circa 1816-1861)
1854: James Cummings (1815-1894)
1854-1855: Charles Magill (1816-1898)
1856: James Cummings (1815-1894)
1857: John Francis Moore (1816-1870)
1858: George Hamilton Mills (1827-1901)
1859-1861: Henry McKinstry (1805-1871)
1862-1864: Robert McElroy (1810-1881)
1865-1866: Charles Magill (1816-1898)
1867: Benjamin Ernest Charlton (1835-1901)
1868: Hutchison Clark (1806-1877)
1869: James Edwin O'Reilly (1833-1907)
1870: George Murison (1820-1889)
1871-1872: Daniel Black Chisholm (1832-1899)
1873-1874: Benjamin Ernest Charlton (1835-1901)
1875-1876: George Roach (1818-1904)
1877-1878: Francis Edwin Kilvert (1838-1910)
1879-1881: James Edwin O'Reilly (1833-1907)
1882-1883: Charles Magill (1816-1898)
1884-1885: John James Mason (1842-1903)
1886-1887: Alexander McKay (1843-1912)
1888-1889: William Doran (1834-1903)
1890-1891: David McLellan (1841-1892)
1892-1893: Peter Campbell Blaicher (1835-1900)
1894-1895: Alexander David Stewart (1852-1899)
1896: George Elias Tuckett (1835-1900)
1897-1898: Edward Alexander Colquhoun (1844-1904)
1899-1900: James Vernall Teetzel (1853-1926)
1901-1902: John Strathearn Hendrie (1857-1923)
1903-1904: Wellington Jeffers Morden (1837-1928)
1905-1906: Sanford Dennis Biggar (1861-1920)
1907-1908: Thomas Joseph Stewart (1848-1926)
1909-1910: John Inglis McLaren (1865-1948)
1911-1912: George Harmon Lees (1860-1936)
1913-1914: John Allan (1856-1922)
1915-1916: Chester Samuel Walters (1878-1958)
1917-1920: Charles Goodenough Booker (1859-1926)
1921-1922: George Charles Coppley (1858-1936)
1923-1925: Thomas William Jutten (1861-1955)
1926-1927: Freeman Ferrier Treleaven Q.C. (1884-1952)
1928-1929: William Burton (1888-1944)
1930-1933: John Peebles (1827-1948)
1934-1935: Herbert Earl Wilton (1869-1937)
1936-1943: William Robert Morrison, K.C. (1878-1947)
1944-1949: Samuel Lawrence (1879-1959)
1950-1962: Lloyd Douglas Jackson (1888-1973)
1963-1976: Victor Kennedy Copps (1919-1988)
1977-1980: John Alexander MacDonald (1927-)
1981-1982: William Powell (1907-1992)
1983-2000: Robert Maxwell Morrow (1946-)
2001-2003: Robert E. Wade (1933-)
2004-2006: Larry Di Ianni (1948-)
2006-2010: Fred Eisenberger (1952-)
2010-2014: Robert Bratina (1943-)
2014-Present: Fred Eisenberger (1952-)
Mayor John Don (1888-1981), Mayor 1950-1953
Dundas
1848: John Paterson (1805-1856)
1849: James Belle Ewart (1801-1853)
1850-1852: James Coleman (1811-1881)
1853-1854: Robert Holt (1801-1876)
1855: George Munns Barton (1829-1892)
1856-1857: John Quarry (ca 1810-1877)
1858: Alexis Fidèle Begue (1805-1872)
1859-1861: Thomas Howard McKenzie (1811-1896)
1862-1865: John Mair Thornton (ca 1823- )
1866: Dr. James McMahon (1830-1909)
1867-1871: Alexander Richard Wardell (1835-1913)
1872-1873: Robert McKechnie, Jr. (1834-1913)
1874: James Somerville (1834-1916)
1875: Alexander Stronach Wink (ca 1843-1899)
1876-1878: Thomas Wilson (1828-1891)
1879-1883: Alexander Richard Wardell (1835-1913)
1884; Robert McKechnie, Jr. (1834-1913)
1885; Thomas Wilson (1828-1891)
1886-1887: Herbert Charles Gwyn (1846-1926)
1888-1889: Henry Bickford (1842-1889)
1889-1890: John Bertram (1829-1906)
1891-1892: Richard Todd Wilson (1839-1927)
1893: Robert McKechnie, Jr. (1834-1913)
1894-1895: Col. William Edward Sheridan Knowles (1862-1931)
1896-1897: Thomas Atkins Wardell (1865-1902)
1898: Henry Bertram (1856-1945)
1899-1900: William H. C. Fisher ( -1921)
1901-1902: Charles (Chub) Collins (ca 1857-1914)
1903-1904: William Lawson (1854-1948)
1905-1906: John Wolfenden Dickson (1865- )
1907-1908: William Henry Moss (1859-1941)
1909-1910: John Wilkie Lawrason (1871-1940)
1911: Richard Todd Wilson (1839-1927)
1912-1913: Edwin Alfred Woodhouse (1845-1924)
1914-1915: William H. C. Fisher ( -1921)
1916-1917: Charles Edgar Dickson (1878-1939)
1918: Herbert C. Davis (1871-1952)
1919: Samuel Joseph Lennard (1857-1921)
1920-1921: Edmund J. Mahony (1870-1955)
1922-1923: Alfred Broad (1884-1953)
1924-1927: Dr. Alonzo Campbell Caldwell (1880-1961)
1928-1929: John Edward Robinson (1893-1968)
1930: Dr. W. E. Inksetter (1865-1947)
1931-1935: Dr. Alonzo Campbell Caldwell (1880-1961)
1936-1939: Robert P. Manning (1881-1951)
1940-1941: Edmund J. Mahony (1870-1955)
1942-1944: Robert Hart Hunter (1880-1974)
1945-1946: David P. (Bud) Cliff (ca 1902-1996)
1947-1949: Robert Hart Hunter (1880-1974)
1950-1953: John C. Don (1888-1981)
1954-1957: George Earl Kemp (1893-1965)
1958-1961: John Alexander Warren (ca 1914-2003)
1962-1965: Albert S. Edwards (1906-1965)
1965-1967: Leslie Brown Couldrey (1889-1996)
1968-1976: Hugh Munson Everett (1917-1999)
1977-1985: Joseph T. Bennett (ca 1925- )
1985-1988: Mary Ann Seldon (ca 1942- )
1988-2000: John Addison (ca 1943- )
