{{Short description|Waterfall in Ontario, Canada}} {{Use Canadian English|date=November 2024}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2024}} {{Infobox waterfall | name = Webster's Falls | photo = Flickr - paul bica - websters falls revisited.jpg | photo_width = | photo_caption = Webster's Falls in 2009 | location = Hamilton, Ontario, Canada | coords = {{Coord|43.276241|-79.980898}} | elevation = | type = {{hlist|Curtain|Plunge}} | height = {{convert|22|m|ft|abbr=on}} | width = {{convert|30|m|ft|abbr=on}} | height_longest = | average_width = | number_drops = | average_flow = | watercourse = Spencer Creek | world_rank = }}
'''Webster's Falls''' is a {{convert|22|m|ft|adj=mid|-high}} classical curtain and plunge waterfall located in the Spencer Gorge Conservation Area in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The water flows down Spencer Creek. In the past, the falls have been known by various names such as Dr. Hamilton's Falls, Spencer Falls, Hart Falls, Fisher Falls and Flamborough Falls.<ref name=WATERFALLS>{{cite web|publisher=(www.cityofwaterfalls.ca)| title =Hamilton- Waterfall Capital of the World| url=http://www.cityofwaterfalls.ca/| accessdate = 2008-07-05}}</ref>
The cobblestone footbridge, as well as a newer and narrower stone and concrete footbridge, crosses over Spencer Creek to the west side.<ref name=cascadesfalls>{{cite book| title = Hamilton Waterfalls and Cascades: Research & Inventory Report, 2nd Edition| publisher = Hamilton Conservation Authority| date = November 2007}}</ref>
== Baby Webster's Falls == Baby Webster's Falls is a complex ribbon waterfall which has water mainly during seasonal storms and after the winter snow melts. Its height is 20 metres and its width is 3 metres (10 ft) It is located on a tributary of the Spencer Creek, on a separate ravine near Webster's Falls and can be seen from the top of the gorge.
Hamilton Firefighters have performed a total of 163 rope rescues between 2005 and August 2016, many of which have occurred at Webster's and Tew's Falls.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/rope-rescues-1.3737456|title=Think rope rescues are up in Hamilton? Think again - CBC News|publisher=}}</ref>
== Images == <gallery> File:Waterdawn Webster Falls5.jpg|Webster's Falls in Summer File:Webster Falls - Laslovarga1.jpg|Webster's Falls in Fall File:Waterdawn Webster Falls in Winter.jpg|Webster's Falls in Winter File:Waterdawn Webster Falls1.jpg|Webster's Falls File:Ontario Waterfalls 1.jpg|Webster's Falls </gallery>
== See also == * List of waterfalls * List of waterfalls in Hamilton, Ontario
==References== {{Reflist}}
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==External links== * [https://waterfallsofontario.com/websters-falls.php Waterfalls of Ontario - Webster's Falls] * [http://www.waterfalls.hamilton.ca Cascades and Waterfalls of Hamilton (www.waterfalls.hamilton.ca)] * [http://www.cityofwaterfalls.ca/ Hamilton- "The Waterfall Capital of the World" (www.cityofwaterfalls.ca)] * [http://www.hamiltonpostcards.com/pages/waterfalls.html Vintage Postcards: Waterfalls in and around Hamilton, Ontario] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080515100926/http://www.hamiltonpostcards.com/pages/waterfalls.html |date=May 15, 2008 }} * [http://map.hamilton.ca/Static/PDFs/General%20Interest%20maps/Overall%20City/WaterfallMap.pdf Hamilton Waterfall Map PDF. (http://map.hamilton.ca)]
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