John Goddard 
Inside Hamilton’s Museums [EPUB ebook] 

Exploring Hamilton through its heritage museums.




Inside Hamilton’s Museums helps to satisfy a growing curiosity about Canada’s steel capital as it evolves into a post-industrial city and cultural destination. With an emphasis on storytelling and unsung heroes, the book identifies where Sergeant Alexander Fraser bayonetted seven enemy soldiers in a shocking attack to save Upper Canada in 1813. It evokes the day in 1939 when King George VI and Queen Elizabeth opened the Queen Elizabeth Way, the first intercity divided highway in North America. And it illuminates the four months in 1846 when an otherwise immensely privileged teenager, Sophia Mac Nab, documented her mother’s excruciating demise.



Appealing to Hamiltonians and visitors alike, the book brings to life the former residents of Dundurn Castle, Whitehern Historic House, the Old Waterworks, Battlefield House, Griffin House, the Joseph Brant Museum, and the Erland Lee Museum, birthplace of the Women’s Institutes.

Table of Content

• Preface and Acknowledgements


• 1 Dundurn National Historic Site (and Hamilton Military Museum)


• 2 Whitehern Historic House and Garden


• 3 Hamilton Museum of Steam and Technology (The Waterworks) 


• 4 Battlefield House Museum and Park


• 5 Griffin House (with Fieldcote Memorial Park and Museum)


• 6 Joseph Brant Museum


• 7 Erland Lee Museum


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

John Goddard is an author, magazine writer, and former Toronto Star reporter. His books include Inside the Museums: Toronto’s Heritage Sites and Their Most Prized Objects and Rock and Roll Toronto, with pop critic Richard Crouse. John lives in Toronto.