About Ancaster

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Ancaster is a suburban community southwest of Hamilton, Ontario, with which it amalgamated in 2001. Ancaster is the most westerly portion of the Golden Horseshoe conurbation of southern Ontario. It is a bedroom community whose residents typically work in downtown Hamilton itself, Brantford, Burlington, Oakville, Mississauga or Toronto. Ancaster was part of the Wentworth County Board of Education since its inception, and was covered by the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board when it was created in 1998. Ancaster's only public institute of secondary education is Ancaster High School.