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  Hamilton
City Government
   Mayor  Andrea Horwath 1 22 +1.17%
City Council
   Ward 1  Maureen Wilson 2 22 +59.24%
  Ward 2  Cameron Kroetsch 1 22 +16.43%
   Ward 3  Nrinder Nann 2 22 +16.09%
  Ward 4  Tammy Hwang 1 22 +3.12%
   Ward 5  Matt Francis 1 22 +27.17%
   Ward 6  Tom Jackson 4 22 +48.01%
   Ward 7  Esther Pauls 2 22 +1.83%
  Ward 8  John-Paul Danko 2 22 +39.35%
   Ward 9  Brad Clark 3 22 +16.51%
  Ward 10  Jeff Beattie 1 22 +7.50%
   Ward 11  Mark Tadeson 1 22 +1.11%
  Ward 12  Craig Cassar 1 22 +18.45%
  Ward 13  Alex Wilson 1 22 +15.87%
   Ward 14  Michael Spadafora 1 22 +0.86%
   Ward 15  Ted McMeekin 1 22 +9.08%


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Parents > Canada > Ontario > ON Municipalities  
Websitehttp://www.city.hamilton.on.ca/
Established 00, 0000
Disbanded Still Active
ContributorMonsieur
Last ModifiedCampari_007 October 28, 2020 06:47pm
Description Hamilton is a city with half a million inhabitants located in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is the 10th largest city in Canada.

Its nicknames -- all relating to its waning days as a major industrial centre -- include the Ambitious City, Steel City, the Hammer, and Lunchbucket City. However, health care has outstripped heavy industry -- exemplified by the twin steel giants of Stelco and Dofasco -- as the largest employer. Moreover, the education, government, services and technology sectors have all dramatically developed as heavy industry has declined.

Also belying its unfounded reputation as cultural wasteland, Hamilton has built on its historical and social background. Unusual and interesting attractions include a flying museum Canadian Warplane Heritage a stately residence of a premier of the Province of Canada (Dundurn Castle), a functioning nuclear reactor at McMaster University, a horticultural haven Royal Botanical Gardens and a focus on fabulous footballers Canadian Football Hall of Fame.

Hamilton is located on the western end of the Niagara Peninsula and Lake Ontario, and as such is sometimes known as Head of the Lake (not to be confused with Lakehead). The two major physical features are Burlington Bay marking the northern limit of the city and the Niagara Escarpment running through the middle of the city.

Burlington Bay, part of Lake Ontario, is locally known as Hamilton Harbour, the Bay or the Harbour. Many creeks -- including Stoney Creek, Redhill Creek, Grindstone Creek and Chedoke Creek -- flow over the Escarpment and into the Harbour or Lake Ontario. The portion of the Niagara Escarpment inside the city is more commonly known as Hamilton Mountain, the Mountain or the Hill.

In 2001, the former Regional Municipality of Hamilton-Wentworth and its six constituent municipalities were folded into the new city of Hamilton, or Megacity. The Canada-wide census the same year found 502,336 residents were in newly amalgamated city. The Census Metropolitan Area -- including Burlington and Grimsby -- had 684,375.

Despite its reputation as a blue-collar, lunch-bucket town, Hamilton has a large variety of historical, cultural and educational attractions in addition to more conventional or lowbrow ones.

A business collaboration between a Canadian hockey player and a retired Hamilton policeman began quietly in 1965 at 64 Ottawa Street North. After the player's untimely death, an ambitious expansion scheme of the retiree's led Tim Hortons Donuts to become an enormously successful food retailer selling doughnuts, coffee and light snacks. Founder Ron Joyce sold the business to the Wendys fast food empire, but not before bestowing his name on Hamilton Place.

New Hamilton has historically been represented by four to six MPPs or MLAs in the Ontario legislature. Old Hamilton was always suspicious of its larger neighbour and provincial capital, Toronto and had a reputation for being highly unionized. These factors combined to electing working class and left wing MPPs, often from the New Democratic and Liberal parties, who frequently achieved notoriety if not power outside Hamilton.

In contrast, the former suburbs and rural precincts of old Hamilton voted for less radical and less noteworthy Conservative representatives, including government backbenchers for Rae's successor, Mike Harris. The Harris government's forced amalgamation of Hamilton was highly controversial among suburban and urban Hamilton voters. It also made provincial riding boundaries and names automatically coincide with those at the federal level, reducing new Hamilton's representation in Toronto by one member.

Over the years and into the present, Hamilton has been prominent in several fields of sporting ventures and venues.

The Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League play at Ivor Wynne Stadium in the east end. Notable residents and former players include Angelo Mosca. The CFL's annual Eastern Division Labour Day classic pits the Hamilton Tiger-Cats against perrennial rivals the Toronto Argonauts. Oddly, for many years before his death, Harold Ballard owned both franchises. The team's prowess has fallen dramatically from its glory days in the 1960s and early '70s, when it was a powerhouse.

In recent decades, Hamilton has yearned and lobbied for a National Hockey League franchise. It has been continually disappointed, despite building Victor K. Copps Coliseum downtown on Bay Street North. The sports and entertainment arena, named for a former mayor and father of Sheila Copps, has hosted the World Junior Championship Games and is home ice for the Hamilton Bulldogs of the American Hockey League. The Hamilton Tigers played in the NHL during the early '20s.

John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport is located on the Mountain at Mount Hope in the former Glanbrook Township. Scheduled passenger service is provided by WestJet, who for several years used the airport as their primary point of access to Southern Ontario over the more expensive Toronto Pearson International Airport, and CanJet; other airlines also offer vacation charters. The airport is also a major lower-cost alternative to Pearson for cargo air service.

CN serves Hamilton, but as heavy industry declined and the preferred mode of transportation changed to road, the number of branch lines and feeder tracks has declined dramatically. Until the early 1970s, the Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway offered passenger service and since the late 1980s GO Transit has offered sporadic passenger train service from its James Street North station. In the late 1990s, GO Transit operations were consolidated at the refurbished Art Deco building on Hunter Street which formerly served as the TH&B station. The nearest VIA Rail Canada station is Aldershot in west Burlington.

Within the city, the HSR or Hamilton Street Railway offers good service in the lower city (especially on east-west routes), reduced service on the Mountain and skeletal service outside the old city of Hamilton (except for Dundas, which is served about as well as the Mountain).


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