City-Wide Outage, Library Service Impacted

HPL is recovering from the City of Hamilton's cybersecurity-related outage, which began Sunday February 25 and continues today, Friday November 22. Learn more.

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Publish Date:

Tuesday, November 12, 2024 - 8:00am

Notices

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Magazine and ILLO Delay

Magazine and ILLO deliveries are delayed due to the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) strike. Thank you for your understanding.

Publish Date:

Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 8:30am

City IT Planned Maintenance

A City IT systems update is scheduled for early Saturday morning. This will impact access to HPL's network and some applications. This update will improve overall network capacity, performance, resiliency, reliability and is the foundation for future network updates. Thank you for your patience.

Publish Date:

Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 8:00am

3D Printing Not Available On Sundays

Please note that 3D printing services are unavailable on Sundays. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Publish Date:

Thursday, November 14, 2024 - 2:00pm

Spectator File S-1 1953-May 21, 1956

1953- May 21, 1956

1953 McMaster Convocation

March 1953 Massey. Governor General [at hydro]

June 1953 Queen's Coronation

[wire photos, Bishop Bagnall & Bishop Ryan, old prints, decorations for Queen, Niagara Falls]

June 2, 1953 Coronation Day Parade & Festivities

1954-1955 Misc. Negs

1954 or 1955 Editor's Conference

1955 Adam Beck Power Plant. Niagara Falls

1955 Askew Boat House Fire

1955 Dundurn Museum. Head of the Lake Hist. Soc. [Sept. 22, 1955]

1955? J. Diefenbaker in Hamilton

1955 Jordan Museum

1955 Midland Shrine

1955 Registry Office

July 1955 Army Negs

Sept. 9, 1955 Model Home Week

Oct. 11, 1955 Diesel Engines (by Bruce Murdoch)

Oct. 21, 1955 McMaster Convocation

Nov. 19, 1955 General Hospital - New Children's Wing. Interior

Nov. 26, 1955 Notre Dame Academy (Waterdown)

Dec. 21, 1955 Fire at York Street

1956 Ham. Lacrosse Club

1956 Shopping Centre Henry Morgans. Henry Morgan Store. The Centre

1956 Miss Canada Pageant

1956 National Ballet

Feb. 15, 1956 Pipeline Feature

April 16, 1956 Petawawa - Can. Guards

April 20-25, 1956 Kiwanis Music Festival Winners

May 9, 1956

May 7-8-9, 1956 Circulation Mgs. Conv.

May 21, 1956 McMaster Convocation