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Originally Posted by Dr Awesomesauce
Again, great photos.
I've never understood why the Connaught addition is different from the original. Perhaps they felt they couldn't match it well enough, so they went with something completely different.
How about that quagmire down on Burlington street! I didn't know there was a streetcar line down there but it makes sense.
I can't figure out that early industry picture. I think that's the Dundas Peak in the background but the angle's weird. I'm sure someone else will know.
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There was a Greening wire factory in West Hamilton, on Rifle Rainge Road, where the Fortinos store is now located. Would this have been the building?
The Dundas Museum and Archives apparently has a picture of it. I’ll post it as soon as I get it.
This page has information re Greening Donald in Hamilton, and it's location on Rifle Range Road.
“Greening Donald Wire Company Limited (B. Greening Wire Company Limited)
Location: 1859-1987, Queen and Napier Streets, Hamilton, Ontario
The original Victoria Wire Mill on Queen and Napier Streets in Hamilton (1881) (click for a closer look)The roots of the Greening Donald Wire Company Limited reach back to 1494. In this year, Christopher Greening, an Englishman living in France, opened a pin-making shop in his adopted homeland, the first such shop in France. In 1563 he returned to Great Britain, where it is supposed that he co-founded the Tintern Abbey Wire Works in Wales, though he must have been very old at the time. "
http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301...l/greening.htm
The Toronto Hamilton and Buffalo Railroad (Th&B) serviced the Greening Donald factory in west Hamilton.
"The TH&B Railway in West Hamilton
Malcolm J.A. Horsnell
The Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo Railway, which operated from 1892 to 1987, had a large impact on West Hamilton by servicing industries and passengers.
The TH&B’s Aberdeen freight yard lay at the south end of Longwood Road, with a passenger station on the south side. An industrial spur branched off south to serve the Canadian Porcelain Company,which closed following a strike in 1987. Canadian Westinghouse, later Hotpoint, then Camco,was serviced off the north side of Aberdeen Yard. McMaster Innovation Centre now occupies the property."
http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrain...t_Hamilton.htm