Due to poor air quality, Bookmobile will be cancelling all stops today, Thursday, July 16. Regular service is expected to return next week. Thank you for your understanding.
Bookmobile Stops Cancelled
Published:
Thursday, July 16, 2026 - 8:00am
Air Quality Warning
An Orange Air Quality Warning has been initiated for the City of Hamilton by Environment and Climate Change Canada and the Ontario Ministry of Environment, Conservation and Parks beginning July 15, 2026. This alert will remain in effect until a cancellation notice is issued.
Stay safe, Hamilton. www.hpl.ca/hours
Published:
Wednesday, July 15, 2026 - 2:00pm
HPL Catalogue and Online Resources Not Available - Sunday, July 19
Due to online maintenance, Members can not access HPL's catalogue, online services and resources on Sunday, July 19 from 5am-10am. Thank you in advance for your understanding.
Published:
Monday, July 13, 2026 - 3:00pm
Express Items via OverDrive - Partner Libraries Update
As of July 1st, partner library Members can no longer borrow HPL Express items via Overdrive. More to Borrow partner libraries will be offering Lucky Express (Skip the line) titles to their cardholders only. This will help manage wait times for popular titles. Lucky Express is a collection of in demand titles with a seven-day loan period, available with no wait.
Our partners will still be able to borrow titles from the rest of our collection.
www.hpl.ca/more-to-borrow
Published:
Monday, July 6, 2026 - 10:00am
What's Happening Guide Changes
The What's Happening Guide has been retired and replaced with different communications channels and tactics. You can find the new Summer Reading Flyer here. Watch for future communications updates.
Published:
Monday, June 29, 2026 - 3:00pm
Sunday Hours Return to Central Library
Sunday hours return to Central Library. Beginning July 5, Central is open Noon to 5pm. Dundas, Red Hill, Terryberry, Turner Park, Valley Park and Waterdown branches are also open Sundays, 1 to 5pm. hpl.ca/hours
Published:
Monday, June 29, 2026 - 1:00pm
Study Halls Pause for Summer Break
After Hours Study Hall is not available in July and August. Hours will resume Tuesday, September 8. www.hpl.ca/study-halls
Published:
Tuesday, June 23, 2026 - 3:00pm
Roll of Honour - World War I
Bailey, L.H.
Bailey, Nathaniel
Bailey, Roy
Baillie, Nathaniel
Baker, Chester
Baker, Elmer
Baker, J.
Baker, Walter T.
Bale, W.H.
Ball, E.H.
Ball, James
Barker, Cecil R.
Barnard, Geo. H.
Barnes, Albert
Barnes, Albert L.
Barrie, Harold
Barron, John
Baskett, William H.
Batchelor, Frank D.
Bates, George
Bates, George A.
Battler, Robert
Baylis, Albert
Bayne, Egerton
Beach, Fred
Beach, John F.
Beach, William
Beadon, N.B.
Beale, Alfred
Beaumont, Edwin F.
Beckett, William H.
Begin, Osmand J.C.
Behan, J.G.
Bell, Harry
Bell, Salethiel
Bell, William
Bell, William Harry
Belnap, William
Belton, Charles H.
Bennett, Frank
Bennett, Fred
Bennett, Stanley
Berry, Harold
Berry, Joseph B.
Bertram, J.K.
Bertrand, W.
Best, A.F.
Best, Alfred
Beveridge, Sam. F.
Bews, Russell
Beyer, Arthur F.
Bibby, John R.
Bicker, E.H.
Biggar, Roy Warren
Bingham, Alex. John
Binkham, Charles W.
Binkley, Allen
Binkley, J.R.
Birthwhistle, George S.
Black, R.
Blackwood, James
Blaney, N.
Blank, Sidney H.
Blount, Isaiah
Blundell, J.R.
Blunden, Charles
Boa, William H.
Boardman, Albert E.
Bodden, Cornelius
Boden, Walter
Bolingbrooke, Charles
Bolton, Joseph
Bolton, L.A.
Bonham, Jack E.
Booker, C. Stewart
Booker, James L.
Booth, Stanley
Bosher, Fred
Bott, C.C.
Bottrill, Herbert
Bowden, John
Bower, Albert E.
Bowerbank, Ernest A.
Bowerbank, Jack
Bowers, Alfred S.
Bowland, Benjamin John
Bowles, Robert
Boyd, M.B.H.
Boyes, James
Boyes, James Golloway
Boyes, Reginald
Boyes, Wm. R.
Bradfield, Jack
Bradfield, John
Bradley, Herbert Franklin
Brailsford, Harry
Brain, H.E.
Brain, Thomas W.
Brake, G.
Brake, Geoffrey
Bramer, William John
Brant, Cameron D
Branton, Sam
Breaume, Robert W.
Breckon, William
Bremner, Reginald Roy
Briefley, Fred
Brink, A.D.
Brisbane, William
Brittain, Leonard Frank
Broadbent, N.
Brockbank, Henry
Brogan, Thomas F.
Brooks, Alfred
Brooks, Stanley
Brown Wm. Ormiston
Brown, Alex
Brown, Cecil H.
Brown, Ernest Victor
Brown, H.W.
Brown, Harry
Brown, Hugh P.
Brown, John
Brown, Oliver P.
Brown, Ralph
Brown, Thomas
Brown, W.J.
Brown, Walter
Brown, William C.
Brown, William Wesley
Brown. George
Brownlie, Alex
Bruce, Robert
Bryant, Charles
Bryant, Frank
Bryant, R.M.
Bryers, Roberts
Buchanan, James
Buckley, Edward
Buckthorpe, William
Bull, Alex.
Bullock, Reginald Henry
Bunn, Morris Roy
Bunn, Roy
Burgess, Albert Thomas
Burgess, Charles
Burgess, Ernest T.
Burgess, George
Burley, W.F.
Burnett, Roy
Burns, Thomas J.
Burton, Arnold M
Burtwell, Charles G.
Bush, Sidney
Buzza, J.
Byron, Edward
