From Saltfleet to Stoney Creek

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Stoney Creek, Ontario

This exhibit features historical and modern perspectives on the many crossroads communities that make up contemporary Stoney Creek. The eastern portion of the City of Hamilton has evolved from a landscape of fruit farms into a suburban community known for light industry, but traces remain of the Saltfleet Township that was. Seven storylines trace the history of specific hamlets and villages within the old township, with emphasis on the Olde Towne, Winona, Fruitland, Mount Albion and Elfrida, Vinemount and Tweedside, and Tapleytown. The exhibit includes photographs and documents, both historical and modern, illustrating Saltfleet “then” and Stoney Creek “now.” The Erland Lee Museum, 1897 birthplace of the world's first rural women's organization, the Women's Institutes, is a repository for community information and historical items, and much of the exhibit presented here has been culled from the museum's research collection.