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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
Queenston, ON
1   of Robert Hamilton (1750-1809), the founder of Queenston. He was a prosperous merchant and in 1792 was
2   appointment of agents as follows: Grant & Kirby, Queenston, John Chisholm, Head of the Lake (Hamilton), Wm.
3   steamboat QUEENSTON was built in 1824 at Queenston, financed by the sons of the late Robert Hamilton.
4   Archibald MacDonald at Kingston; Kerby & Co., Queenston; Jas. Lockhart at Niagara; Wm. Bergin at York;
5   BRITAIN, 1830 Prescott CANADIAN, 1833, Kingston Queenston, 1824, Queenston CANADA, 1826, Rouge River UNITED
6   & Co., Niagara and to W. Wynn or W. Duff at Queenston.
7   during 1838. The QUEEN VICTORIA was launched at Queenston, and the GORE at Niagara. The QUEEN VICTORIA,
8   to go to Toronto, they had to row across to Queenston, to board the
9   Hugh Richardson, was in service between Toronto, Queenston and Lewiston, while the BRITANNIA, Capt. Wm.
10   and Kingston, CITY OF TORONTO, from Lewiston & Queenston to Toronto and Kingston, under command of Capt.
11   six a.m. for Niagara, Youngstown, Lewiston and Queenston, and arrive in time for the Railroad Cars for the
12   In coming into St. Catharines from Queenston, a large new building will attract the attention
13   to Oswego, lumberSch. ELLEN WILSON, Softley, to Queenston, light
14   excursion to Queenston Heights for the employees of F. G. Beckett & Co.
15   and, on Fridays she went to Grimsby, Niagara and Queenston. This steamer, originally named OLIVE, was built
16   of Christ Church Cathedral for an excursion to Queenston Heights. She sailed from MacKay's Wharf at 8:30
17   in port to take excursion parties, the former to Queenston, the latter to Toronto. On the same day, word from

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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.