The Founding of Ancaster

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The Founding of Ancaster

Location
The City of Hamilton
In Ancaster, on Wilson Street East, south side, just west of Sulphur Springs Road

Photographer
Alan L Brown

Posted
April 22, 2004

Summary from the Ontario Heritage Foundation's website
The community of Ancaster began to develop around the Rousseaux mills in the 1790s, and remained an important regional centre for small-scale, water-powered industries throughout the next century.

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