April 5th, 1990
The Grimsby Historical Society commemorates
the 200th Anniversary of the
First Municipal Meeting in Upper Canada
held on April 5th, 1790
by burying a time capsule beneath this cairn
filled by the school children of Grimsby. . . . — — Map (db m281034) HM
In the earliest days of the Methodist campgrounds (ca. 1859) Bell Park was little more than a spring fed bog encompassed by a forest. As the camp expanded, the spring was dammed to gain access to fresh water for the campers and was rerouted to . . . — — Map (db m284311) HM
The land around you was part of the Biggar Farm from 1798 until about 1960.
The farm came to be after the American Revolution when United Empire Loyalists (UEL), people who were loyal to the British, left the United States for . . . — — Map (db m259181) HM
A Loyalist from the Mohawk Valley, New York, Nelles came
to Canada during the American Revolution and from 1780 to
1784 served in the Indian Department. Following hostilities he settled near the Grand River but by 1792 had moved to this area. . . . — — Map (db m233660) HM
Canadian Film Director, Actor and Producer
October 7, 1894 - March 23, 1970
Born in North Grimsby Township on October 7, 1894, Delmer William Lord was a well-known Canadian film director, actor and producer whose career spanned from . . . — — Map (db m293935) HM
By the afternoon of June 6th the American army at least 3,300 strong were in full retreat, in total confusion, from the battle at Stoney Creek. Both General Winder and General Chandler, along with numerous commissioned officers, had been captured . . . — — Map (db m283926) HM
Here at the Forty Mile Creek, on 8th June, 1813, American forces, retreating after the Battle of Stoney Creek, were bombarded by a British flotilla under Sir James Lucas Yeo.
Indians and groups of the 4th and 5th Regiments Lincoln . . . — — Map (db m282940) HM
Near this site on April 5. 1790, was held the earliest known session of a municipal government in what is now Ontario. This ‘town meeting' of Township No. 6, later named Grimsby, dealt with such matters as the height of fences and the registration . . . — — Map (db m283923) HM
Grimsby Nature
Fisheries in Grimsby
The fish once caught in Lake Ontario help tell the story of settlement and growth around Forty Mile Creek. The Neutral Confederacy, Niagara's first inhabitants, were well established in the area, . . . — — Map (db m283929) HM
Imagine the land as it was before 1794. The forestry, the vegetation, and the vast
wilderness of the area we now know as Grimsby. The rock of the escarpment, with its
creeks and falls. Inhabitants traveled through this area on footpaths, used on . . . — — Map (db m281072) HM
The stand of trees before you surrounding the Grand Old White Oak is the first natural feature designated by the Town of Grimsby to be of cultural heritage value or interest under the Ontario Heritage Act.
It can be difficult to comprehend the . . . — — Map (db m291433) HM
We dedicate this flagpole to the Grimsby 1812 Bicentennial peace garden in honour of the "Encounter at the Forty" at this site on June 8, 1813, a turning point in the War of 1812 by the United States and the British. Also, to celebrate 200 years . . . — — Map (db m282943) HM
We dedicate this gazebo to the Grimsby 1812 Bicentennial Peace Garden and to the residents of Grimsby, In commemoration of 200 years of peace between Canada and the United States.
The design of the gazebo was inspired by elements of Fort . . . — — Map (db m282944) HM
For more than 75 years, the Grimsby Beach waterfront was a summer wonderland and a major destination for people in Southern Ontario and Upstate New York.
It all began in 1848, when the Ancaster Methodist Circuit first held their temperance . . . — — Map (db m284312) HM
[Tall monument east side]
Lest We Forget
Erected by Royal Canadian Legion Branch 127
Dedicated to the brave men and women of Grimsby area who served during war and peace for a better world
At the going down of the sun we . . . — — Map (db m281059) WM
This bell was purchased by the Village Council for the
Fire Department in 1883 and placed on John Grout's Foundry, corner of Main and Oak Streets.
For 75 years it summoned firemen, signified working hours,
and proclaimed curfews. It pealed . . . — — Map (db m284014) HM
One of the first interurban electric railways in North America, the Hamilton Grimsby and Beamsville Electric Railway was incorporated in 1892 and opened from Hamilton to Grimsby in October 17, 1894. Its line ran for 22 miles along the base of the . . . — — Map (db m299342) HM
From 1894 to 1960 this site was the location of a car barn and repair shop building constructed in 1894 by and for the Hamilton Grimsby and Beamsville Electric Railway (H.G. & B.).
The H.G. & B. was an interurban railway that ran for 22 miles . . . — — Map (db m293986) HM
History of the Biggar Lagoons
It was the rare sightings of shorebirds that originally attracted area bird watchers to the Biggar Lagoons.
The Biggar Lagoons were sewage treatment lagoons for neighbourhoods in the west end of Grimsby from . . . — — Map (db m234129) HM
This nearby burial-ground, one of few representative sites known to have survived relatively intact in Ontario, was used by the Neutral Indians, a confederacy of Iroquoian tribes which occupied the area around western Lake Ontario before 1655. . . . — — Map (db m283922) HM
On this land donated by Robert Nelles, United Empire
Loyalist, the pioneers of this community built a log church in 1794. It was replaced by a frame structure which was completed by 1804. The present stone church was erected 1819-25 and . . . — — Map (db m283924) HM
For more than a century after the arrival of the first Loyalist Settlers in the 1780s, the land at this location was used as farmland. Smith,
Hunter, Bigger, Ingleheart and McGill are the names of the farming families who tilled the land in this . . . — — Map (db m281112) HM
This watering trough,
given to Howard Ferris
when motors replaced horses
on Grimsby's Main Street,
was presented to
The Grimsby Historical Society
by
Laureen Ferris
in Howard's memory.
October 1995 — — Map (db m281042) HM
