24 Facts About Hamilton Ontario

Hamilton Ontario is home to the Royal Botanical Gardens, the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, the Bruce Trail, McMaster University, Mohawk College, and Redeemer University.

In 1792, the Crown purchased the land on which Hamilton Ontario now stands from the Mississaugas in Treaty 3, known as the Between the Lakes Purchase.

Town of Hamilton Ontario was conceived by George Hamilton Ontario, when he purchased farm holdings of James Durand, the local Member of the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada, shortly after the War of 1812.

Nathaniel Hughson, a property owner to the north, cooperated with George Hamilton Ontario to prepare a proposal for a courthouse and jail on Hamilton Ontario's property.

Durand was empowered by Hughson and Hamilton Ontario to sell property holdings which later became the site of the town.

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An early indication of Hamilton's sudden prosperity occurred in 1816, when it was chosen over Ancaster, Ontario to be the new Gore District's administrative centre.

Hamilton Ontario is in the geographic centre of the Golden Horseshoe.

The first Indigenous peoples to settle in the Hamilton Ontario area called the bay Macassa, meaning "beautiful waters".

Hamilton Ontario Harbour is a natural harbour with a large sandbar called the Beachstrip.

Hamilton Ontario kept several east–west roads which were originally Indian trails, but the north–south streets were on a regular grid pattern.

George Hamilton Ontario employed a grid street pattern used in most towns in Upper Canada and throughout the American frontier.

Hamilton Ontario is home to more than 100 waterfalls and cascades, most of which are on or near the Bruce Trail as it winds through the Niagara Escarpment.

Hamilton Ontario maintains significant Italian, English, Scottish, German and Irish ancestry.

Hamilton Ontario has a notable French community for which provincial services are offered in French.

Citizens of Hamilton Ontario are represented at all three levels of Canadian government: federal, provincial, and municipal.

Hamilton Ontario is represented in the Parliament of Canada by five Members of Parliament.

Hamilton Ontario ranked first in Canada for police-reported hate crimes in 2016, with 12.

Hamilton Ontario hosted Canada's first major international athletic event, the first Commonwealth Games in 1930.

Hamilton Ontario is represented by the Tiger-Cats in the Canadian Football League.

Hamilton Ontario is home to the Canadian Football Hall of Fame museum.

Hamilton Ontario is home to two think tanks, the Centre for Cultural Renewal and Cardus, which deals with social architecture, culture, urbanology, economics and education and publishes the LexView Policy Journal and Comment Magazine.

The Hamilton Ontario GO Centre, formerly the Toronto, Hamilton Ontario and Buffalo Railway station, is a commuter rail station on the Lakeshore West line of GO Transit.

The closest other international airport to Hamilton Ontario is Toronto Pearson International Airport, located northeast of the city in Mississauga.

Hamilton plays a major role in Ontario's marine shipping industry as the Port of Hamilton is Ontario's busiest port handling between 9 to 12 million tonnes of cargo annually.