Historic Hamilton is a series of caches that serve to bring cachers to historic places in and around the City of Hamilton. These caches can be placed by anyone, and are not limited to one CO. If you know of a historic place that you would like to bring people to, feel free to add it to the series!
The Meadowlands is municipally located within Ward 12, a district which includes a large portion of the land that comprised the former Town of Ancaster. The map below is an outline of the Ancaster Meadowlands within the context of the metropolitan Hamilton. 
The City of Hamilton has divided the Meadowlands into four jurisdictional neighbourhoods. Each of these neighbourhoods (Oakes, Horning, Marritt, and Lampman) are named after former area landowners, some settling their families as early as the late 18th century. 
The photograph below showcases a portion of all of the “neighbourhoods” of the Meadowlands. Kitty Murray Lane is seen on the left of the picture with Stonehenge Drive cutting across the middle. Redeemer University College is located in the bottom right-hand quadrant (Source: Eric Vanderveen, 2014). 
The Archaeology of the Meadowlands:
Long before modern society arrived in the area, early humans settled in this area for its natural resources. Archaeological digs carried out between 1975 and 1997 revealed that the lands to become the Meadowlands were once home to a dense network of Indigenous peoples. Extensive excavation revealed over 100 separate settled sites, showing evidence of human occupation dating from the early Lithic period to the present day.
The diagram below shows a timeline of the epochs of human habitation 
The map below shows the remarkable density of (former) archeological sites in the Meadowlands. Much of the uncircled land did not permit excavation because of existing buildings, such as Redeemer University College (Source: City of Hamilton Archaeological Management Plan) 
The development of the area really began in 1991 when the original Costco was built (it has since been demolished and relocated to the other side of the property), Sobeys purchased land, and construction of the residential area south of Golf Links Rd started. The picture below is from this time period. Golf Links Rd runs through the middle of the photo, and you can see the land to the south being prepared for the construction of new houses. 
Since that time there has been much pressure to increase the density of the new housing being built, but local politicians have fervently fought back citing Ancaster as a special place that should restrict the heights and types of buildings constructed.
As a result, single family homes continue to eat up vacant land, moving in a southeast direction towards Garner Rd / Glancaster Rd. At the time this cache was published, the new public school 'Tiffany Hills' had been opened for less than 4 months and the area southeast of the school has been cleared for construction of the ‘Tiffany Hills’ housing development. 
Information in this cache listing has been sources from:
The Making of the Meadowlands: How Ancaster’s Fields Became Hamilton’s Suburbs - by Jeremy E. Parsons