Flamborough is a former municipality in the city of Hamilton. For
most of its existence before amalgamation with Hamilton in 2001, Flamborough
comprised the former townships of East Flamborough, West Flamborough, and
Beverly, as well as the village of Waterdown. Other Flamborough communities
include Carlisle, Christie’s Corners, Clappison’s Corners, Copetown, Freelton,
Greensville, Lynden, Kirkwall, Millgrove, Mountsberg, Orkney, Peter’s Corners,
Rockton, Troy, Sheffield, Valens, and Westover.
After the American Revolution in 1783 and
the creation of Upper Canada, land at the western end of Lake Ontario was
surveyed and organized into townships, which included East Flamborough, West
Flamborough and Beverly. Governor’s Road (also known as Queen’s Highway 99) was
built on the border with neighboring Ancaster Township linking York (later
Toronto) and London.
In 2001, the provincial government
amalgamated Flamborough with Ancaster, Dundas, Glanbrook, Stoney Creek and
Hamilton into the City of Hamilton.
Copetown is a rural neighborhood located east of Brantford.
William Cope, a United Empire Loyalist from the state of New York settled here
in 1794.
Jerseyville was initially settled by United Empire Loyalists from
New Jersey in the late 1770s. The Brantford to Hamilton rail trail passes
through Jerseyville in place of the old train tracks. The original Jerseyville
train station building can be found at Westfield Heritage Village in Rockton.
There used to be a train station
in Lynden that went to Hamilton. Currently Lynden has many farmers, small
business entrepreneurs and commuters to Hamilton, Cambridge, Dundas, Brantford
and Toronto.
Freelton – #79 – Gothic – corner quoinsFreelton – Bay window on the sideFreelton – #110 – stone buildingFreelton – #100 – Mansard roof with dormers, bay windowsConcession 2 – Verge board trim on gable, paired cornice bracketsConcession 2 – Cornice brackets, corner quoinsConcession 2 – Georgian14 Howell Road – dormers, oriel window on left side, two-storey bay window on right side, Palladian-type window above veranda235 Howell Road – Orchard Home Farm – two-storey frontispiece with corner quoins, paired cornice bracketsCopetownS.S. No. 3 School – West Flamborough and Ancaster – 1916 – voussoirs and keystonesCrieff – Stone Gothic heritage home – transom windowJerseyville – Wesleyan Methodist Church erected A.D. 1860Lynden – GothicLynden – Decorative cornice, voussoirs and keystones, iron cresting above porch, corner quoinsMountsberg – #1913 – Gothic – verge board trim on gablesPuslinchStrabane – #1322 – Gothic – verge board trim and bric-a-brac on verandaWest Flamborough – 252 Highway 8 – McKinlay-McGinty House c. 1848 – Classical Revival architectural style – The front entrance is screened by four Tuscan wooden columns. The main door is flanked by pilasters of ashlar limestone set on a plinth and surmounted by a limestone lintel carved to simulate a rusticated voussoir. The door frame is flanked by sidelights with a four-light transom above. Above the entrance there is a Palladian-inspired window, set within an elliptical arch, with a central semi-circular headed window with Gothic glazing bars, flanked by a pair of lancet windows showing the growing influence of the Picturesque and early Gothic Revival movement. Above this window is a recessed yellow brick lozenge pattern detail below a low gable with return eaves. The front windows have shutters and rusticated voussoirs.
