
This waterfall was originally known as Dr. Hamilton's falls, after Dr.
James Hamilton purchased the land in 1818. (He was also the first
president of the Canada Life Insurance Company as well as medical
officer for the Great Western Railway.) The waterfalls and 78 acres of
the surrounding land were purchased by Joseph Webster after his family
arrived from England in 1820. According to the Hamilton Conservation
Authority (the current owner), the Webster family manor still stands on
Webster's Falls Road, and their gravestones have been preserved in a
small section just off the Bruce Trail, on the way to Tews Falls. In
1933, the grounds were landscaped, a stone bridge constructed across the
creek above the falls, and an iron fence installed to make the viewing
at the ledge much safer.