A room at the Brantford Public Library has been named in honor of a longtime employee with a passion for local history.
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The Geoffrey Moyer Local History Room at the main library branch honors the late library technician who worked there from 2000 to 2024. His role included documenting and digitizing local history resources and helping others access them.
“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.”
Moyer’s friends and family, along with library staff, gathered for an event commemorating the room naming.
“It’s such a fitting tribute,” said Aramburo. “The results of Geoffrey’s work are lasting and extensive, and he deserves the recognition.”
Moyer died last July. He was 55.
Outside of the library, Moyer’s passion for local history was evident through his involvement in many projects. He was the founder of the Great War Centenary Association (doingourbit.ca).
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The organization created a database and developed educational resources to preserve and share local records from the First World War, including nine years of Moyer’s research into the contributions of Brantford, Brant County and Six Nations.
With their work completed, the Great War Centenary Association will be dissolving and the Brantford Public Library will take over housing these online materials for the public.
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, and newspapers dating back to the 1850s.
The digital archives feature many digitized books, biographies, newspapers, school yearbooks and pictorial histories.
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