Books on Hespeler’s History

During COVID-19, please email us to arrange shipping or possible pickup.

Books for Sale

We sell historical books and various items on Hespeler and its history. 

These make a great gift, coffee table book or if you’re looking to impress your friends with your extensive knowledge of local history.

If it’s listed here, we have some in stock.

If you have books or memorabilia you’d like to donate to the Hespeler Heritage Centre, please send us an email or call.

booksGetting your Book

The Hespeler Heritage Centre will arrange for payment of your book(s). Typically we accept cash or mail-in cheques, but hoping to do e-transfers shortly.

If you want one of the books currently listed for sale, it’s best just to call or email and set up a payment/shipment or pickup.

 

Currently Available

Death as Life's Work - Waterloo Region Undertakers and Funeral Businesses Illustrated Histories - 1850 - 2020

Price: $80
Author: Marion Roes
Type: Hard Cover

Death as Life's Work

Hespeler History - The Authorized Winfield Brewster Collection

Price: $20
Author: Paul Langan
Type: Paperback

Hespeler History - Paul Langan

Cracks through the Shell

Price: $20
Author: Becky Alexander
Type: Paperback

Cracks through the Shell

Hespeler - Portrait of an Ontario Town
Price: $25 Author: Kenneth McLaughlin and Kristel Fleuren Type: Paperback Hespeler Portrait of an Ontario Town
Our Memories of Old Hespeler

Price: $15
Author: Owen (Jack) Connell & Sam Inglis
Type: Spiral Bound Paperback

Our Memories of Hespeler

Let the Good Times Roll: The History of Playfair Bowl

Price: $15
Author: Peter Moyer
Type: Spiral bound paperback

Let the Good Times Roll

The History of Cambridge Hockey

Price: $25
Author: Todd Jones
Type: Paperback

The History of Cambridge Hockey

The Nickname Treasury

Price: $5
Author: The Hespeler Old Boys
Type: Paperback

The Nickname Treasury

A Driving and Architectural Tour of Historic Town of hespeler

Price: $25
Author: William C. O’Krafka & Kenneth McLaughlin
TypeSpiral bound paperback and CD media

Driving Tour Book

A Driving and Architectural Tour of Historic Town of Hespeler (CD Only)

Price: $5
Author: William C. O’Krafka & Kenneth McLaughlin
Type: CD media

Driving Tour CD

Growing Up in Hespeler: An Historical Memoir

Price: $20
Author: Becky Alexander
Type: Paperback

Growing up in Hespeler

More Tales From An Old Hespeler Girl

Price: $20
Author: Becky Alexander
Type: Paperback

More Tales from an Old Hespeler Girl

Wild Winds From The Edge of Time

Price: $20
Author: Becky Alexander
Type: Paperback

Wild Wings from the Edge of Time

My Town: When I Grow Old, I'll Remember

Price: $25
Author: E. Joyce Thomson Byrnes
Type: Paperback

My Town

Memories of Old Hespeler

Price: $25

La Rue de Commerce (1954)

Price: $10
Author: Winfield Brewster
Type: Paperback

A history of old Queen Street by Winfield Brewster (1954)

La Rue De Commerce

Commemorative Hespeler Reunion Book (1947)

Price: $45
Type: Paperback

1947 Hespeler Reunion Book

Commemorative Hespeler Reunion Book (1966)

Price: $25
Type: Paperback

Commemorative Hespeler Reunion Book (1966)

Commemorative Hespeler Reunion Book (1996)

Price: $20
Type: Paperback

1996 Hespeler Reunion Book

The Great Hespeler Reunion (2006)

Price: $15
Type: Paperback

2006 Hespeler Reunion Book

Commemorative Hespeler Reunion Book (2016)

Price: $15
Type: Paperback

2016 Hespeler Commemorative Book

The Stationmaster

Price: $10
Author: Doug Craig, Illustrations by Greg Pautler
Type: Paperback

The Stationmaster