Bookmobile Service Update

Due to the Touch-A-Truck event being cancelled, Bookmobile will be visiting its regularly scheduled Saturday sites instead (Stoney Creek Arena, Riverdale, and Discovery Centre). www.hpl.ca/bookmobile

Published:
Thursday, May 21, 2026 - 2:30pm
Central Library - Fax Machine Out of Order

Please note that the fax machine is currently out of order. The estimated time of repair is unknown. Thank you for your patience.

Published:
Thursday, May 21, 2026 - 12:00pm
Turner Park - Study Hall Cancellation

Study Hall on Thursday, May 21, is cancelled due to plumbing maintenance. Study Hall will resume on Monday, May 25. Thank you for your patience.

Published:
Wednesday, May 20, 2026 - 12:00pm
Staff Professional Development Day - All Branches Closed

All HPL Branches are closed on Friday May 29, for Staff Professional Development. Bookmobile is off the road and Extended Access service is not available. Regular service hours resume on Saturday May 30.

Visit our Virtual Branch at hpl.ca for our online resources and collections.

Published:
Thursday, May 14, 2026 - 12:00pm
Central Library: Children's Area Renovation on 2nd Floor

Renovations are currently underway for the 2nd Floor Central Children's Area. Programs are still being offered as scheduled and there is a temporary pop-up Children’s Area on the northeast side of the 2nd Floor (near the Piano Room), including access to collections and train tables. Construction is expected to be completed by late Spring. Thank you for your patience.

Published:
Monday, March 23, 2026 - 9:00am
Sherwood Branch: Renovations

As of Monday, March 2, Sherwood Branch's 2nd Floor is closed due to renovations. Makerspace, Children and Teen's collection are temporarily available on the 1st Floor. All programs will be held in the basement program room. Renovations are expected to be completed in late Spring. Thank you for your patience.

Published:
Tuesday, February 10, 2026 - 1:00pm

War of 1812 - Collection Bibliography - V

Valpy, Joseph Jr. 1792-1816
Journal of Joseph Valpy, Jr, of Salem. November, 1813 - April, 1815. With other papers relating to his experiences in Dartmoor Prison.
Michigan Society of Colonial Wars, 1922
#111 of 300
vii, 71
[Valpy was a British prisoner-of-war captured at sea on the privateer "Herald"]
TPL 1083
R973.52 VAL CESC

Van Rensselaer, Solomon 1774-1852
A Narrative of the Affair of Queenstown: in the War of 1812. With a Review of the Strictures on that Event, in a book entitled "Notices of the War of 1812"
New York: Leavitt, Lord & Co.
Boston: Crocker & Brewster, 1836
viii, [9]-95, 4, 6
Howes 10582; Lande 872; Sabin 98548 "A reply to a work by General John Armstrong...The appendix contains letters and general orders relating to the affair"; Thibeault 10184; TPL 929
R971.053 V355 CESC

Vercheres de Boucherville, Thomas
War on the Detroit. The Chronicles of Thomas Vercheres de Boucherville and the Capitulation by an Ohio Volunteer. Edited by Milo Milton Quaife. Secretary of the Burton Historical Collection.
Chicago: The Lakeside Press, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co.,
Christmas, 1940
xxvi, 347
R971.053 V582 CESC

Victory at Niagara and Laura Secord. Heroine of the War of 1812.
A Johnny Pepper Adventure.
American Graphics No. 2
Copyright 1957 by Henry Stewart, Incorporated.
[comic book]
[30]
R971.0188 ENG CESC