Dundas Street: Bibliography

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Armstrong, Frederick H. The Forest City: An Illustrated History of London, Canada. London, ON: Windsor Publications, 1986.

________ and Daniel J. Brock. Reflections on London’s Past. London, ON: The Corporation of the City of London, 1975.

Armstrong, G.H. The Origin and Meaning of Place Names in Canada. Toronto: Macmillan, 1930.

Bateman, Chris. “The History of How Toronto Created Dundas Street.” BlogTO (1 August 2020). https://www.blogto.com/city/2012/09/a_brief_history_of_what_is_now_known_as_dundas_street/

Beckett, Thomas A. My Path to the Dundas Valley. 2018.

Berton, Pierre. The Invasion of Canada 1812-1813. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1980.

Breithaupt, W.H. “Early Roads and Transportation: Upper Canada.” Seventh Annual Report of the Waterloo Historical Society (1919). http://www.transportsourcebook.ca/waterloo-historical-society/yr1919-early-roads-and-transportation.php

Bremner, Archie. City of London, Ontario, Canada: The Pioneer Period, and The London of To-day. 1900. 2nd ed. London, ON: The London Public Library Board, 1967.

Brink, Andrew. “Anne Morden, First Settler in the Dundas Valley.” Canadian Quaker History Newsletter 10 (December 1974): 1-8.

Brown, I.D. and A.W. Brink. The Dundas Heritage. Dundas, ON: Dundas Heritage Association, 1970.

Byers, Mary and Margaret McBurney. The Governor’s Road: Early Buildings and Families from Mississauga to London. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1982.

Campbell, T. “The Founding of London.” Programs of the London and Middlesex Historical Society, Transactions 1902-1907: 12-28.

________. “The Settlement of London.” Transactions of the London and Middlesex Historical Society, Part III (1911): 8-51.

Cruikshank, Brigadier General E. A., ed. The Correspondence of Lieut. Governor John Graves Simcoe, with Allied Documents Relating to His Administration of the Government of Upper Canada. 5 Vols. Toronto: Ontario Historical Society, 1923.

Cuming, David, et al. Hamilton’s Heritage Volume 5: Reasons for Designation under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act. City of Hamilton Planning and Development Department. June 2005. https://flamboroughhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/hamiltons-heritage-volume-5.pdf

Davidson, W.A. and Charles N. Pirie. Picturesque Dundas. Dundas, ON: Alex F. Pirie, 1896. Rep. Dundas Historical Museum, 1972.

“Dundas Cotton Mills.” Dundas Museum and Archives. https://map.dundasmuseum.ca/listings/the-cotton-mills/

Dundas Heritage Association Executive. William Lyon Mackenzie Slept Here: Heritage Buildings of Dundas. Dundas, ON: Dundas Heritage Association, 1984.

Dundas Historical Museum. The. The Wheels of Progress. Dundas, ON: The Dundas Historical Museum, 1980.

“Dundas Street.” Wikipedia (29 December 2025). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dundas_Street

From Coleman’s Castle to the House of Providence.” Dundas Museum and Archives. https://map.dundasmuseum.ca/listings/house-of-providence/

Fry, Michael. The Dundas Despotism. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1992.

Fryer, Mary Beacock. Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe 1762-1850: A Biography. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1989.

________ and Christopher Dracott. John Graves Simcoe, 1752-1806: A Biography. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1998.

Governor Simcoe’s Tour through Southern Ontario.” Transactions of the London and Middlesex Historical Society, Part VIII (1917): 4-18.

Guillet, Edwin C. The Story of Canadian Roads. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1966.

Hayes, Derek. Historical Atlas of Toronto. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2009.

Innis, Mary Quayle, ed. Mrs. Simcoe’s Diary. With Illustrations from the Original Manuscript. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1965

Johnston, C.M. The Head of the Lake: A History of Wentworth County. 2nd ed. Hamilton, ON: Wentworth County Council, 1967.

Jones, Anna. Glorious Copetown 1795-2000. Dundas, ON: Copetown Lions, 1999.

Lovat-Fraser, J.A. Henry Dundas, Viscount Melville. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1916.

Marshall, Sean.“The Many Streets of Dundas.” Spacing: Canadian Urbanism Uncovered (15 October 2011). https://spacing.ca/toronto/2011/10/15/the-many-streets-of-dundas/

________. “The Complicated History of Dundas Street.” Marshall’s Musings (1 January 2021). https://seanmarshall.ca/2021/01/01/dundas-street/

Martin, Meghan. “Lost Lynden.” PocketSights Tours. https://pocketsights.com/tours/tour/Hamilton-Lost-Lynden-5113

Mealing, S.R. “Simcoe, John Graves.” Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Vol. V (1801-1820). https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio.php?id_nbr=2659

Misiak, Zig. War of 1812: Highlighting Native Nations. 200th Anniversary Edition. Real People’s History, 2012. Revised April 2013.

Moore, W.F. “Dundas in the Early Days.” Papers and Records of the Wentworth Historical Society, Vol. 8 (1919): 49-58.

[Mulvaney, Charles Pelham.] “Town of Paris.” The History of the County of Brant, Ontario, Containing a History of the County; Its Townships, Cities, Towns, Schools, Churches, etc.; General and Local Statistics; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; History of the Six Nation Indians and Captain Joseph Brant (Thayendanagea); History of the Dominion of Canada, Miscellaneous Matters, etc., etc., etc. Toronto: Warner, Beers & Co., 1883: 463-88.

Newcombe, Olive. Picturesque Dundas Revisited. 1997. Dundas, ON: Dundas Historical Society Museum, 2014.

Newman, Mark. “Looking back at Hamilton’s Amalgamation Saga.” Hamilton Spectator (6 December 2018). https://www.thespec.com/news/looking-back-at-hamiltons-amalgamation-saga/article_99268edd-3a36-5e1a-93d6-e0a9a82b5dfa.html

Norris, Darrell A. Beyond Paradise: Building Dundas 1793-1950. Dundas, ON: Local Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee of the Town of Dundas, 1996.

Nowak, Stan. “A Very Brief History of the Struggle for the Incorporation of Dundas.” Hamilton Spectator (28 July 2022). https://www.thespec.com/opinion/a-very-brief-history-of-the-struggle-for-the-incorporation-of-dundas/article_3900c944-86a3-5647-bb8d-25dc64650497.html

Page & Smith. Illustrated Historical Atlas of the County of Wentworth Ont. Compiled Drawn and Published from Personal Examinations and Surveys. Toronto: H.R. Page, 1875

Peace, Thomas. “So Long Dundas: From Colonization to Decolonization Road?” Active History (17 June 2020) https://activehistory.ca/blog/2020/06/17/so-long-dundas-a-colonization-to-decolonization-road/#comments

Rayburn, Alan. Place Names of Ontario. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997.

Robertson, H.H. “The Governor’s Road, Desjardin Canal and Burlington Heights.” Journals and Transactions of the Wentworth Historical Society, Vol. V (1908): 11-30.

Scadding, Henry. Yonge Street and Dundas Street: The Men after Whom They Were Named. [A Paper from the Canadian Journal of Literature, Science and History.] Toronto: Copp, Clark & Co., 1878.

Scott, David E. Ontario Place Names. Edmonton, AB: Lone Pine, 1997.

Sehr, Eric. “A Road Cut in Crisis: Dundas Street and the War of 1812.” Brockton: A Lost Toronto Village (27 November 2025). https://brockton-history.ca/2025/11/27/a-road-cut-in-crisis-dundas-street-and-the-war-of-1812/

Smith, Donald A. At the Forks of the Grand: 20 Historical Essays on Paris, Ontario. Paris, ON: Walker Press, 1956.

St-Denis, Guy, ed. Simcoe’s Choice: Celebrating London’s Bicentennial 1793-1993. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1992.

Tupper, Ferdinand Brock, ed. The Life and Correspondence of Major-General Sir Isaac Brock, K.B., Interspersed with Notices of the Celebrated Indian Chief, Tecumseh; and Comprising Brief Memoirs of Daniel De Lisle Brock, Esq.; Lieutenant E.W. Tupper, R.N., and Colonel W. De Vic Tupper. London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1845.

Williams, Art. Bits & Pieces: A Montage of Woodstock, Ontario in Text and Pictures. Woodstock, ON: Art Williams & Edward Baker, 1967.

Woodhouse, T. Roy, et al. Ancaster’s Heritage: A History of Ancaster Township. Ancaster, ON: The Ancaster Township Historical Society, 1970.

________. The History of the Town of Dundas. 3 vols. Dundas, ON: The Dundas Historical Society, 1965-68. Republished in 1 vol. Dundas, ON: The Dundas Museum and Archives, 2024.

Wray, Sylvia A. and Maurice H. Green. Dundas Street Waterdown 1793-1993. Waterdown, ON: Waterdown-East Flamborough Heritage Society, 1994.