The Brantford Public Library has named the local history room at the Main Branch to honour the late Geoffrey Moyer for his significant contributions to the preservation and sharing of local history information.
The room is now known as the “Geoffrey Moyer Local History Room.”
Geoffrey worked as a Library Technician at the Brantford Public Library from 2000 to 2024. His role at the library included documenting and digitizing local history resources and assisting others with accessing those resources.
“Geoffrey was so generous with sharing his vast knowledge in this area,” said Rae-Lynne Aramburo, CEO and Chief Librarian. “Staff and customers alike were impressed by him and fond of him.”
The new name was marked through commemorative events for library staff, Geoffrey’s friends, and family.
“It’s such a fitting tribute,” said Aramburo, about the naming. “The results of Geoffrey’s work are lasting and extensive, and he deserves the recognition. “
Outside of the Library, Geoffrey’s passion and interest in local history was evident through his involvement in many projects, notably as the founder of the Great War Centenary Association (doingourbit.ca). The organization created a database and developed educational resources to preserve and share local records from the First World War, including nine years of Geoffrey’s research on Brantford, Brant County, and Six Nations’ contributions. With their work completed, the Great War Centenary Association will be dissolving, and the Brantford Public Library will take over housing these invaluable online materials for the public in the future.
The Library offers a physical and digital local history collection containing various resources for those researching local and family history. These include birth, marriage, and death indexes, census records, cemetery records, genealogy resources, historical maps, newspapers dating back to the 1850s, and more. The Digital Archives feature many digitized books, biographies, newspapers, school yearbooks, and pictorial histories.
