Test Your Knowledge on Hamilton's History

MsMe · #1 Posted **Aug 26, 2008, 5:33 PM**

I thought I would try something different for the board. So here are some questions on Hamilton's history. I will post the answers in a few days, so you can have time to work on them. Plus I am sure we will all learn something new along the way on the city's history. I know I did when I made up the questions.

You will find all the info on the net somewhere. Some questions are harder then others though. Have fun digging up Hamilton's history.

1. When was Barton Street jail's last hanging?

2. What year did hph close?

3. When was Gore Park opened to the public?

4. When did HSR begin business?

5. When did the Hamilton incline railway close?

6. What year did Studebaker open in Hamilton?

7. What year was Canal Amusement Park opened?

8. What year was Hamilton's first around the bay race?

9. What year did the downtown market begin?

10. When did Hamilton's Naturalist Club begin?

11. When was Desjardin's Canal train wreck?

12. When was Hamilton's first chartered bank opened?

13. What is Hamilton's official flower?

14. There were 2 very bad winter blizzards in Hamilton areas in the last century, in what years were they?

15. What year did Westinghouse make the first radio?

16. When did they move the Nash-Jackson house from King St. and Nash Rd. to the Stoney Creek Battlefield Park?

17. When did the Century Movie Theatre close?

18. In what years did Victor Copps hold the seat of Mayor?

19. When did the trolley bus take it's last ride on the King St. route?

20. When was the Hamilton's Automobile Club established?

MsMe · #2 Posted **Aug 29, 2008, 3:39 PM**

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astroblaster · #3 Posted **Aug 29, 2008, 5:37 PM**

ahhh i forgot to do this... i'm not looking at the answers yet.. i want to play this weekend.

flar · #4 Posted **Aug 29, 2008, 6:28 PM**

I hope you don't mind MsMe, I hid the answers. You can do this by adding these (spoiler) (/spoiler) around the text (use square brackets to actually do it). The answers become visible by highlighting the black bar with your mouse.

MsMe · #5 Posted **Aug 29, 2008, 7:26 PM**

Not at all. Sometimes we get so busy in real or on other posts on the boards.

I'll let you decide when to let the anwers be seen, hows that.

Or put a post asking if people want to see them yet.

MsMe · #6 Posted **Aug 29, 2008, 7:50 PM**

I will always remember the trolleys coming off the lines and drivers putting them back on. One bad place was around the east end traffic circle. But that was a strange turn especially using trolleys in that area. That must been a lousy part of the job when it was a terrible winter day.

flar · #7 Posted **Aug 29, 2008, 8:27 PM**

Anyone can see the answers anytime. You just have to click your mouse button and drag it over the black bars to highlight them. The answer will become visible magically and instantly.

MsMe · #8 Posted **Aug 29, 2008, 8:56 PM**

ahh... gottcha.

highwater · #9 Posted **Aug 29, 2008, 10:50 PM**

Kewl.

MsMe · #10 Posted **Aug 30, 2008, 1:40 AM**

Vic Copps question is wrong on the starting time, sorry. I looked at wrong paragraph.

MsMe · #11 Posted **Aug 30, 2008, 2:04 AM**

I was just reading up on some of the other older mayors. I was surprised not many of them that served from about 1800 to 1870s weren't born in Canada. Most were from England, Ireland and Scotland, and a few from USA.

adam · #12 Posted **Aug 30, 2008, 8:36 AM**

Most Canadians living back then weren't born in Canada. Especially those of Prime Minister age.

MsMe · #13 Posted **Aug 30, 2008, 1:48 PM**

True Adam, and the very early 1800s Canada wasn't that old at the time. Interesting reading about them though, and learning more about Canada's and Hamilton's history.

Canada wasn't a country till 1867 even.

realcity · #14 Posted **Aug 30, 2008, 7:45 PM**

1. What was Terminal Towers named for?

2. Who built Landmark Tower? (bonus what was it called originally)

3. What building method was Pigott Construction a pioneer in developing?

4. What buildings below did Pigott Construction build?
a) Skylon Tower
b) Hamilton City Hall (new)
c) TD Tower (Toronto)
d) Christ the King Cathedral

5. What two other cities in Canada were bidding for the location of the Steel Company of Canada?

6. T or F - Hamilton was the first city in Canada to have an automobile drive on its roads.

7. T or F - Hamilton was the first city in Canada to have electric lights.

8. How many Prime Ministers have been from Hamilton?

9. What was the last daily newspaper to compete with The Hamilton Spectator?

10. What phase of the Jackson Square block development was never finished?

MsMe · #15 Posted **Aug 30, 2008, 9:16 PM**

Right on Realcity, lets keep this going if we can.

And it is surprising what we can learn about our city in the longrun.

I will do the searching this weekend for your questions.

the dude · #16 Posted **Aug 31, 2008, 5:53 AM**

answers:
not sure if i'll pass this test. you'll see by my sketchy answers that i did not cheat.
1. it was the former site of the hsr central terminal
2. century 21
3. dunno...something to do with steel or concrete
4. (d) and...
5. montreal and toronto
6. ummm true?
7. definitely think that's true
8. hmmm tricky...one - macnab [pre-confederation]. two, if you include pearson.
9. the herald
10. dunno...weren't there plans for a planetarium or some silly thing?

MsMe · #17 Posted **Aug 31, 2008, 6:00 AM**

Tough ones these are.

4. B&D

6. True
7. True

9. Hamilton Evening Times I think. I have an original Hamilton Evening Times newspaper from 1894. It's in pretty rough shape though. I hope I can eventually get it repaired and laminated.

I am still working on the others.

MsMe · #18 Posted **Aug 31, 2008, 6:04 AM**

I don't think any PM's were actually born in Hamilton, but some did live here at some time.

highwater · #19 Posted **Aug 31, 2008, 7:15 PM**

3. Are you referring to the Pigott Better Built Homes, an unsuccessful attempt to mass produce houses with structural steel frames? Unsuccessful from a financial standpoint, anyway. Two beautiful examples still exist in the Durand.

4. All of the above.

realcity · #20 Posted **Sep 6, 2008, 5:44 PM**

1. What was Terminal Towers named for?
The former location of the Central Train Station Terminal

2. Who built Landmark Tower? (bonus what was it called originally)
Century 21 developed by Al Frasina

3. What building method was Pigott Construction a pioneer in developing?
Continuous concrete pouring

4. What buildings below did Pigott Construction build?
a) Skylon Tower
b) Hamilton City Hall (new)
c) TD Tower (Toronto)
d) Christ the King Cathedral
all of the above

5. What two other cities in Canada were bidding for the location of the Steel Company of Canada?
Toronto and Montreal. Toronto became very bitter over losing to Hamilton at the time was a rival city for dominance. Toronto later focused on the financial industry.

6. T or F - Hamilton was the first city in Canada to have an automobile drive on its roads.
True

7. T or F - Hamilton was the first city in Canada to have electric lights.
True

8. How many Prime Ministers have been from Hamilton?
Sir Allen McNab was the Premiere of the Canada's (essentially Prime Minister) by order of the Queen.

9. What was the last daily newspaper to compete with The Hamilton Spectator?
The Herald

10. What phase of the Jackson Square block development was never finished?
An identical twin Stelco Tower was initially planned until the leasing went slower then expected. The Twin would've been at the corner of Bay and King, where several years later when the Standard Life and Sheraton was built to complete to project