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 The Grimsby Historical Society welcomes new members. Membership is $18 for a single member and $25 for a family. This includes three newsletters each year and eight meetings plus opportunities to take part in special events. To join, please send your cheque or Canadian money order to the Membership Chairman, c/o Grimsby Historical Society, P.O. Box 294, Grimsby, Ontario L3M 4G5. There is a $5 charge for visitors who attend regular meetings.

Look for more information on our meetings page.

                     Special Upcoming Event this spring!!

 Re-enactment of the Engagement at the Forty is a special 1812 event that will take place on June 8, 2013 at Pumphouse Park and the Grimsby 1812 Peace Garden, located at Elizabeth Street and Lakeside Drive in Grimsby. This event, free and open to all, will have the following schedule:

   1:00 - 1:30   Musket, artillery and boat demonstrations

   1:00 - 3:00   Children's activities provided by the Grimsby Museum

                       Children's role playing at Phelp's Gazebo

                       Special guest, Pauline Grondin, who specializes in illustrating women's roles in the War of 1812

   1:30 - 2:00   Dancing (interactive with the public)

   2:00 - 2:30   Musket, artillery and boat demonstrations

  2:00 - 2:30  Surgeon's demonstration at the  Surgeon's tent

   2:30 - 3:00   Grimsby Pipe Band

   3:00 - 4:00   Land and Water Re-enactment

Narrated by Ron Dale, Parks Canada War of 1812 Bicentennial Project Manager, SW Ontario, a British marine unit, supported by local militia and First Nations, will conduct a land and water assault on an American artillery company at the mouth of Forty Mile Creek.Everyone is invited to this special event!

For more information, be sure to check out www.grimsbywarof1812.blogspot.ca.

Grimsby Archives

Begun briefly in 1913, the present-day Grimsby Historical Society was formed in 1949 and since then has been collecting archival material relating to the history and people of Grimsby. The Archives Committee was established in 1999 to organize and preserve this material to make it accessible to the public. And so the Grimsby Archives was formed.

The Grimsby Archives is located in the renovated premises in the 1911 Carnegie Library Building at the corner of Adelaide and Ontario Streets, just one block north of Main Street. We are sharing this building with the Foundation of Resources for Teens (FORT) and Niagara West Employment & Learning Resource Centres. Hours are Monday from 8:30 until noon and 1 to 3 except for statutory holidays, and Wednesday and Friday from 8:30 to noon, or by appointment.
 

Our telephone number is 905-309-0796. To contact the historical society, send an email to info@grimsbyhistoricalsociety.com . Email the archives at  archives@grimsbyhistoricalsociety.com. Our mailing address is P.O. Box 294, Grimsby, Ontario L3M 4G5.

The collection includes diaries, directories, local history publications, scrapbooks, school yearbooks, family history documents, material on the government of North Grimsby Township, a microfiche copy of the Ontario Land Records Index. We also have an extensive obituary index, and a growing collection of information on Grimsby streets and homes, and their inhabitants over the years. Any print material relating to the history of our town and residents is gratefully received.

We also have files on over 100 local families, some including considerable genealogical information. Visit the Family History page. Genealogists will also be interested to hear that births, deaths, and marriages in Grimsby newspapers are now being indexed. Go to http://news.ourontario.ca/grimsby to search.

Grimsby is a town with a long and interesting history. In 1787, a group of about 40 United Empire Loyalists settled here at the mouth of the Forty Mile Creek. As the years have gone by, the town had gone through numerous changes, being first a small rural village, then a centre for the manufacture of farm machinery, hospital furniture and other metal products, and later the hub of the Niagara Peninsula's fruit-growing industry. For many years, Grimsby has also had a successful fishing industry which lasted until the 1960's.

Click here for the Hamilton Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society

Click here for Town of Grimsby information



  
Dorothy Turcotte's website click here.