Hamilton, Ontario
Hamilton is a port city in the Golden Horseshoe at the west end of Lake Ontario. The city is 58 kilometres southwest of Toronto, with which the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area is formed. Hamilton has a population of 536,917, and its census metropolitan area, which includes Burlington and Grimsby, has apopulation of 747,545. Hamilton is home to the Royal Botanical Gardens, the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, the Bruce Trail, McMaster University, Redeemer University College and Mohawk College.
About Hamilton, Ontario in brief
Hamilton is a port city in the Golden Horseshoe at the west end of Lake Ontario. The city is 58 kilometres southwest of Toronto, with which the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area is formed. Hamilton is home to the Royal Botanical Gardens, the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, the Bruce Trail, McMaster University, Redeemer University College and Mohawk College. McMaster University is ranked 4th in Canada and 77th in the world by Times Higher Education Rankings 2018–19. The current boundaries of Hamilton were created through the amalgamation of the original city with other municipalities of the Regional Municipality of Hamilton–Wentworth on January 1, 2001. Since 1981, the metropolitan area has been listed as the ninth largest in Canada. Hamilton has a population of 536,917, and its census metropolitan area, which includes Burlington and Grimsby, has apopulation of 747,545. The population of Hamilton was 6,475 in 1845, when the city was granted official city status. The first commercial telephone service in Canada, the first commercial store in 1893, and the second telephone exchange in all of North America were each established in 1877–1878. Hamilton was conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased farm holdings of James Durand, the local Member of the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada, shortly after the War of 1812. A member of the Iroquois Confederacy provided the route and name for Mohawk Road, which originally included King Street in the lower city.
As the city grew, several prominent buildings were constructed in the late 19th century, including the Grand Lodge of Canada in 1855, a public library in 1890, the Right House in 1879, and a public gym in 1881. The town was chosen over Ancaster, Ontario to be the new Gore District’s administrative centre in 1816. In 1832, a canal was finally cut through the outer sand bar that enabled Hamilton to become a major port. By 1846, there were useful roads to many communities as well as stagecoaches and steamboats to Toronto, Queenston, and Niagara. Eleven cargo schooners were owned in Hamilton. A reading room provided access to newspapers and other cities and the U.S. S. and sixty-five in various types of trades. In addition to stores of all types, the community included three breweries, banks, taverns, ten importers of dry goods and groceries, five importer of tanneries, two tanners, three coachmakers, a marble and stone works, a stone works and a stone quarry. By the end of the 19th century, the city had several several hundred businesses, including a bank, a post office, a hospital, a bank and a bank. In 1784, about 10,000 United Empire Loyalists settled in Upper Canada, chiefly in Niagara, around the Bay of Quinte, and along the St. Lawrence River between Lake Ontario and Montreal. The Crown granted them land in these areas to develop Upper Canada and to compensate them for losses in the United States.
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