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Sefydlwyd Cantref ar 15 Tachwedd 1991, wedi cyfres o gyfarfodydd cyhoeddus dros yr ychydig fisoedd blaenorol i geisio canfod defnydd cymunedol amgen i Gapel Bach y Plase, y Bala. Capel wedi ei adeiladu ar Grîn Bach y Bala, dros gan mlynedd cyn hynny, ac a brydleswyd i Eglwys Bresbyteraidd Cymru, oedd y capel bychan hwn. Caewyd yr achos crefyddol yno yn ystod y 1980au. Y dyhead a gododd yn y cyfarfodydd yn ystod 1991 oedd sefydlu canolfan dreftadaeth neu amgueddfa fechan i gofnodi'n treftadaeth i'r trigolion lleol a dwyn y dreftadaeth honno i sylw ymwelwyr â thref y Bala. Mabwysiadwyd cyfansoddiad y gymdeithas newydd mewn cyfarfod ar 10 Ionawr 1992 ac aethpwyd ymlaen ar fyrder i gofrestru fel elusen gofrestredig ac i drefnu sawl darlith ac arddangosfa yn ystod y flwyddyn honno. Profodd y gweithgareddau'r flwyddyn hon i fod mor llwyddiannus a phoblogaidd fel yr ystyriwyd bod angen i adeiladu estyniad i'r cyn- gapel. Adeiladwyd estyniad i'r adeilad gwreiddiol yn ystod 1995 i greu cegin, toiled a storfeydd. Bellach mae Cantref yn cynnal cyfres o ddarlithoedd yn ystod misoedd cyntaf pob blwyddyn gyda chyfres o arddangosfeydd celf ac arddanosfeydd treftadaeth yn ystod misoedd cynhesach y flwyddyn.

Cantref was established on 15 November 1991, after a series of public meetings over the previous few months to try to find an alternative community use for the Capel Bach at Plase, Bala. This small chapel was built on the Little Green at Bala, over a hundred years before that, and leased to the Presbyterian Church of Wales. The religious cause there was closed during the 1980s. The aspiration that developed in the 1991 meetings was to establish a heritage centre or a small museum to record our heritage for the local residents and bring that heritage to the attention of visitors to the town of Bala. The constitution of the new society was adopted at a meeting on 10 January 1992 and the society quickly proceeded to register as a registered charity and to organise several lectures and exhibitions during that year. The activities of that year proved to be so successful and popular that it was considered necessary to build an extension to the former chapel. An extension to the original building was built during 1995 to create a kitchen, toilet and stores. Cantref now holds a series of lectures during the first months of each year with a series of art exhibitions and heritage exhibitions during the warmer months of the year.