Dundas belongs to the province of Ontario in Canada. It bears the nickname Valley Town as the place is located in a valley. Besides that, a town charter was held over it between 1848 and 2001. It has had a very stable population for decades at around twenty thousand with the most current census in 2006 showing 24,702, which is only a mere 308 difference compared to the 2001 census population recorded at 24,394. This may be mainly due to the fact that it has not annexed rural land from protected Dundas Valley Conservation Area. The area is now managed by the Hamilton Conservation Authority; hence, linking up the area both directly and indirectly with the Bruce Trail. Other nature spots that can be found include the Dundas Driving Park, Veterans Park and Cootes Paradise.
In 1847, Dundas was incorporated as part of Wentworth County. It was named after a Scottish lawyer and politician who never step foot in North America, Henry Dundas. He was a friend of John Graves Simcoe, the Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada who named the place. During the late 18th and early 19th century, the town experienced great economic prosperity for its access to Lake Ontario via the Desjardins Canal besides being an important town in Upper Canada and Canada West. In 1976 on March 1st, the Town Council proclaimed the place as the ‘The Cactus Capital of Canada’. This gave the Chamber of Commerce and the Dundas Jaycees an opportunity to create a strong-themed summer festival called the ‘Cactus Festival’.
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In February 2000, the Harris government announced that the town and the rest of Hamilton-Wentworth would be amalgamated to create a new City of Hamilton. Nearly a year later, on New Year’s Day, all the municipalities including Dundas, Stoney Creek, Flamborough, Ancaster and Glanbrook were formally amalgamated under the name City of Hamilton which garnered a considerable amount of controversy among the residents. Although it is now called Hamilton, citizens living in the valley still proudly refer to it as Dundas.
This town is deemed a suitable place for various kinds of arts such as fine arts, music and film. It is home to the Dundas Valley School of Arts that was established in 1964 and offered a fulltime diploma program with McMaster University. Besides that, the 1910 Carnegie Library has a gallery that hosts art exhibitions, book readings, concerts as well as a gift shop. The town has also proudly produced a number of gifted people for the music industry, namely Stan Rogers who is a folk singer and Daniel V. Snaith who is a musician.
It is also home to the Dundas Valley Orchestra, an amateur, community orchestra founded in the fall of 1978 by Arthur Vogh. The valley has also been featured in a number of films that starred famous actors like Robin Williams and Christopher Walken. In addition, there is also two distinguish events celebrated annually –– the Buskerfest in early June and the Dundas Cactus Festival in August.
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