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Table of Contents

Title Page
Preface
Introduction
1 A place called Hamilton.
2 Public Works and Private Enterprise
3 Port Hamilton
4 1837-1839
5 Ericsson Wheels
6 1844-1847
7 Good Times in Port
8 Boom Town Days
9 Depression Years
10 Better Times Ahead
11 1867-1870
12 Prosperity for the Shipbuilders
13 The Second Railway Building Era
14 1884-1888
15 The Electric Era
16 The Iron Age
Table of Illustrations
Index
Fergus, ON
1   come to Upper Canada in 1835 and built a mill in Fergus. Two years later, he was burned out. Gartshore
2   at Sarnia, 300 bbls. of flour for Mr. Wilson of Fergus, some pork for Turner of Hamilton and 200 bbls, of
3   their carriages and inhaled the stench from the Ferguson Ave. sewer, which was being wafted across
4   Harbour was becoming a cesspool, thanks to the Ferguson Ave. sewer. The writer explained that on a calm
5   to Hamilton. For a year or two, he worked on the Ferguson farm and following that, he worked as a
6   living near sewer outlets at Sherman Inlet, at Ferguson Ave. and in the neighborhood of the cemetery,
7   a train left the Grand Trunk station at King and Ferguson Streets at 2:00 p.m. with some 600 invited
8   May, when it was decided to establish plants at Ferguson Ave. and at the East End Sewer. A by-law would.
9   The sheds would be re-erected on property at Ferguson & Hunter Streets, adjoining the Toronto,
10   Sewage Disposal Plant at the foot of Ferguson Ave. was about to become a reality. Architect
11   the end of September, the Ferguson Ave. Sewage Disposal plant was nearing

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This volume is copyright The Estate of Ivan S. Brookes and is published with permission of the Estate. The originals are deposited in the Special Collections of the Hamilton Public Library.