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- 1 a strong impression on the Queenston's Toronto-Hamilton route, for in 1836 he took command of Hamilton's
- 2 that same year to be Collector of Customs in Hamilton.18 Unsuccessful, he spent the next three seasons
- 3 come from a dynamic entrepreneurial group in Hamilton, the "ambitious city".
- 4 settling on a two-acre lot on the outskirts of Hamilton.24 In so doing he established contact with
- 5 of the largest in the province.25 They and other Hamilton businessmen were anxious to break the city's
- 6 twice, at Kingston and Toronto. But few of Hamilton's boosters had any recent experience in building
- 7 In spite of Young's position as one of Hamilton's foremost entrepreneurs and urban boosters, one
- 8 most of the Lake Ontario harbours. Although the Hamilton group was not asking for a significantly larger
- 9 acting for the other, unnamed members of a Hamilton group, quietly petitioned the Admiralty,
- 10 River released a flood of optimism in her Hamilton backers. Talk was rife of a whole line of
- 11 Magnet would pioneer a through service between Hamilton and Lachine was certain to antagonize both
- 12 to continue the battle with a Montreal-Hamilton through line in the 1850 season, they forced
- 13 on the return trip, only a few minutes from its Hamilton destination, the locomotive lurched, the wooden
- 14 domestic tasks in their Hughson Street home in Hamilton.91 Into Margaret's care was entrusted
- 15 would come to be known) lay in the Magnet's old Hamilton-Montreal route, where, despite competition from
- 16 season the Magnet ran between Montreal and Hamilton.95
- 17 the vessel's strong early associations with Hamilton. After more than sixty years' service the
- 18 in the landward railway projects promoted by Hamilton's inveterate urban boosters was the concept of the
- 19 demonstrating the general feasibility of using Hamilton Harbour as the terminus of a Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence
- 20 that the Magnet's backers included some of Hamilton's most important business figures or that early in
- 21 a personal level the metropolitan aspirations of Hamilton. In the analysis of the newspapers, railways, and
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This article originally appeared in Ontario History.
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