THANK YOU to everyone who toured Doors Open Auchmar 2025 and to the volunteers who helped make everyone feel welcome.
Monica Ciriello, MP Hamilton Mountain, cut the ribbon on Saturday and spoke with enthusiasm about restoring Auchmar to its former glory. John-Paul Danko, newly elected MP Hamilton West – Ancaster – Dundas, was there to cut the ribbon on Sunday, along with former Mayor Larry DiIanni.
Lisa Abbott, Director, Tourism & Culture, was there both days to explain the 10-year framework plan the City of Hamilton has for Auchmar. Please remember to email or phone your councilors asking them to support the restoration of the Auchmar Estate!
Announcement — The Friends of Auchmar and the City of Hamilton are developing a multi-year plan for the rehabilitation of Auchmar. Over the course of 2025, there will be opportunity for community input to develop a shared vision for the future of the site. More details to come soon!
Please remember to email or phone your councilors asking them to support the restoration of the Auchmar Estate!
- Heritage Hamilton Foundation – Auchmar Challenge Fund
The Auchmar Estate was retained by the City of Hamilton as a Community Restoration Project. Heritage Hamilton joined the community with an Auchmar Challenge Fund in which the Foundation will match dollar-for-dollar donations from the community for an approved restoration project at the Auchmar Estate up to $25,000.00.
Donate today by following this link –> Donate to the Auchmar Challenge Fund
After clicking the above link, please include a “message to charity” on the donations page, indicating that you are donating to the Auchmar Challenge Fund. A charitable donation tax receipt will be issued by Heritage Hamilton Foundation for all donations.
Find My Ward
Would you like to help save Auchmar and see it restored and repurposed? Please contact your councillor. You can use this City of Hamilton Ward Map to determine your ward and councillor if you do not know.
Call for Photographs
Over 21 years ago, the Hamilton Mountain Heritage Society commenced work on the book, Mountain Memories, which was well received. Part of that work was a Call for Photographs from the community for consideration in the book. The community responded passionately, sending numerous images.
The FOA is currently undertaking a photo essay project and we are calling upon the owners and custodians of private photograph collections within the community.
The intent is to feature the Auchmar Estate throughout the decades, using unseen or rarely seen photographs, which depict the various eras of ownership and use. It will highlight and include the Buchanan family, the Young family, the R.C.A.F. and the Hungarian Sisters of Social Service among others.
Your contribution would be most welcomed and greatly appreciated. All photographs and originals would be scanned and returned to the owners.
Submissions, photographic and anecdotal, may be emailed to info@friendsofauchmar.ca or mailed to the following address: Friends of Auchmar, c/o 170 East 24th Street, Hamilton, Ontario L8V 2Y3. Please include a return mailing address.
About Auchmar Manor House
In 1852, Isaac Buchanan bought 54 acres of land on the Hamilton Mountain. The property stretched from the mountain brow to Fennell Ave. He built a summer cottage which eventually became Buchanan’s Manor House & Estate.
The purpose of the Friends is to bring together those persons committed to the history, preservation, conservation, rehabilitation and continuing public use of the Auchmar Manor House, its associated buildings and cultural landscape.