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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
Hamilton Harbour, ON
1   end of Lake Ontario. Here they discovered Burlington Bay, a fine body of water in the shape of a triangle
2   East side of the Bay was formed by a sand bar, four miles long, known
3   place for a village. It was separated from the Bay by dense swampy forest and, it lacked the other
4   Since there was no road between the village and the Bay, and since shipmasters were not likely to use the
5   through Burlington Beach was about to change Burlington Bay into Hamilton Harbour. Therefore, he decided that
6   repair breaches in north pier, in the Lake and the Bay, and to repair head of breakwater.Pointing,
7   Wm. Bergin at York; John Ross at Dundas, and at "Burlington Bay" - John L. Williams, Andrew T. Kerby, Abel Land,
8   Kingston, Cobourg, Port Hope, York and Burlington Bay or Hamilton before ending her run at Niagara. Her
9   Stone Tavern, situated at Port Hamilton, on Burlington Bay, in front of which is a very extensive wharf and
10   piles to be delivered on the Southeast shore of Burlington Bay, at the point where the line of location of the
11   were extending their wharf 40 feet farther into the Bay and that Messrs. Land & Routh have been busily
12   sunk at Port Nelson last autumn, was towed into Burlington Bay on Sunday last by the steamer CHIEF JUSTICE
13   to a luncheon and a pleasure trip around Burlington Bay. The chair was taken by Donald Bethune, supported
14   and Sandusky, as soon as the ice was out of Burlington Bay.
15   hero of the day. He saw the fire as he came up the Bay and, not waiting to discharge his passengers,
16   now stand was quietly embosomed in the waters of Burlington Bay. Not only has ground been reclaimed, substantial
17   of the steamer CITY OF HAMILTON for service on the Bay of Quinte and as a result, she was replaced by
18   by farmers coming from the other side of the Bay, to our market, owing to the fact that the man in
19   the coal oil refineries, which is emptied into the Bay, is having a very deleterious effect upon the
20   the Hamilton Spectator sent a reporter across the Bay to Alexander Brown's Wharf in East Flamboro to
21   know of no pleasanter diversion than a sail on the Bay and we are certain that on the day approaching,
22   Capt. Spain, will give three excursions on the Bay during the week, starting Thursday. She will
23   boiler being drawn along James Street, toward the Bay and upon inquiry, we found that it was intended
24   steamers were in service on the Bay for the summer. The DENNIS BOWEN, Martin Stally,
25   afternoon was quiet and calm and the waters of the Bay lay placid and unruffled, but there was wanting
26   the large craft that come into sight on reaching the Bay, are Capt. John Malcolmson's two fine propellers
27   reads, in part: "the extension of the line to Burlington Bay was awarded to Alex. J. Brown and the earthwork
28   and by the steamers FLORENCE and DENNIS BOWEN on the Bay. The propeller L. SHICKLUNA took 800 passengers,
29   that "There is still a large body of ice in the Bay, but around the Great Western Wharf, the water is
30   through Hamilton and around the west end of the Bay appeared insurmountable and so the company had
31   of Red Hill Creek, in the southeastern corner of the Bay, was let to Mr. Hiram King. The contract for
32   "Extraordinary preparations are being made at the Bay for the coming boating season. Mr. Bastien has
33   the vessel passed out of the little inlet into the Bay, a violent squall struck her and tore away her
34   he has nothing to do during the winter, when the Bay is frozen over, but for five or six months in the
35   buoys on their port side when proceeding up the Bay.
36   the entry of yet another steamer into the Burlington Bay resort trade on the 19 April. The item read: "We
37   pleasure boat. It was a beautiful afternoon - the Bay was shining, the sky was cloudless and
38   landing-places for passengers on and about Burlington Bay." The Street Railway having made it so convenient
39   on the way up. The tug had to break some ice in the Bay in order to shepherd her flock to the Great
40   steamer ARMENIA of Picton, would be operating on the Bay this
41   Leopold Bauer's JULIETTE, which ran briefly on the Bay. It read as follows: "Lovers of boating and
42   the 22 November, the Bay and the docks were beginning to take on a bleak
43   Oaklands property on the North side of the Bay went on the auction block on 4 April and, the
44   inlets was a mere six inches thick, while out on the Bay, it was even less, thanks to a mild winter. There
45   1892-1893 was a cold one and the ice-cutters on the Bay were making money. By the 9 January, the ice was
46   Larkin took the MASONIC out for a trial run on the Bay.
47   and that a channel should again be cleared into the Bay.
48   repaired and strengthened. The south pier on the Bay side, at the Canal had undergone repairs, 140
49   aldermen. The sewage of the City is carried into the Bay and that beautiful sheet of water is gradually,
50   Mills Co. While here, he took a look around the Bay and paused at the ruins of the N. & N. W.
51   in Galt on the 5 June. The plant was built on the Bay side, not far south of the Brant House and a spur
52   and the ice cutters were again at work on the Bay.
53   load lumber for Oswego. However, two days later, the Bay was
54   the Government to place a range light on the Bay-end of the pier, as they had been doing for some
55   injured, when the main boom fell on him. Out on the Bay, a small boat containing four men was overturned
56   was 30 feet long and was to be test-run on the Bay before shipping. Boatbuilder T. W. Jutten, at the
57   steamer MAZEPPA ended her season on the Bay on 4

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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.