Cold Weather Alert for the City of Hamilton

Cold Weather Alert for the City of Hamilton Monday January 19, 2026.

The temperature is expected to plummet below minus 15 Celsius. For warm place hours visit hpl.ca/hours

For a list of shelters and health information visit www.hamilton.ca/cold

Published:
Monday, January 19, 2026 - 4:00pm
Central Library – Digital Microfilm Machines

The digital microfilm machines at Central Library are not working. A single analog machine is available in the Local History and Archives Reading Room. This reader does not support printing. We apologize for the inconvenience and aim to have the digital devices repaired as soon as possible.

Published:
Monday, January 19, 2026 - 1:45pm
Online Resources - Update

The following eResources have been recently discontinued in our HPL collections: Novelist, Summa, Summa Kids, and Northstar Digital Literacy. Please visit www.hpl.ca/articles/read-watch-listen for our full listing of online resources for your next read, watch, listen and/or learn.

Published:
Wednesday, January 7, 2026 - 11:00am
Waterdown Branch Accessible Door Out of Order

The accessibility door at Waterdown Branch is not working. We aim to fix it quickly.

Published:
Tuesday, December 30, 2025 - 12:00pm
Printing Updates

Daily print balances for black and white and colour printing change January 2, 2026. The new daily print balance is 40 cents. Members receive four free black and white copies or two free colour copies. 

Large format and vinyl printing pricing also change on January 2. Visit https://www.hpl.ca/makerspaces for updates.

Published:
Monday, December 22, 2025 - 2:00pm
Replacement and Damage Fees

Bring back your borrowed library items within 28 days to avoid a replacement or lost fee. We'll remove the fee when you bring back your overdue items. 

Published:
Thursday, September 11, 2025 - 3:00pm

War of 1812 - Collection Bibliography - V

Valpy, Joseph Jr. 1792-1816
Journal of Joseph Valpy, Jr, of Salem. November, 1813 - April, 1815. With other papers relating to his experiences in Dartmoor Prison.
Michigan Society of Colonial Wars, 1922
#111 of 300
vii, 71
[Valpy was a British prisoner-of-war captured at sea on the privateer "Herald"]
TPL 1083
R973.52 VAL CESC

Van Rensselaer, Solomon 1774-1852
A Narrative of the Affair of Queenstown: in the War of 1812. With a Review of the Strictures on that Event, in a book entitled "Notices of the War of 1812"
New York: Leavitt, Lord & Co.
Boston: Crocker & Brewster, 1836
viii, [9]-95, 4, 6
Howes 10582; Lande 872; Sabin 98548 "A reply to a work by General John Armstrong...The appendix contains letters and general orders relating to the affair"; Thibeault 10184; TPL 929
R971.053 V355 CESC

Vercheres de Boucherville, Thomas
War on the Detroit. The Chronicles of Thomas Vercheres de Boucherville and the Capitulation by an Ohio Volunteer. Edited by Milo Milton Quaife. Secretary of the Burton Historical Collection.
Chicago: The Lakeside Press, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co.,
Christmas, 1940
xxvi, 347
R971.053 V582 CESC

Victory at Niagara and Laura Secord. Heroine of the War of 1812.
A Johnny Pepper Adventure.
American Graphics No. 2
Copyright 1957 by Henry Stewart, Incorporated.
[comic book]
[30]
R971.0188 ENG CESC