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Originally Posted by jonny24
As someone not originally from Hamilton, that just seems crazy. Stoney Creek is anything past the Red Hill to me!
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And it's the only one of the former suburban municipalities where there wasn't really a break between the sections of the urban area, at least not since the 1960s or 70s when things developed along Centennial (Ancaster: the hydro corridor and now-developed meadowlands; Dundas: Cootes Paradise and the Ancaster Creek valley; Waterdown and Binbrook always had very wide separation), so it wasn't as easy to tell when you were actually within its borders.
It's understandable that the Red Hill Valley and parkway seems like the boundary today; the Stoney Creek waterway would have been the closest thing to a natural one though. We used to consider that once you crossed Centennial you were in SC, but the old boundary did jog around. I believe part of the Eastgate parking lot was in Stoney Creek, but the mall itself was in Hamilton.
Another oddity: Grays Rd. is Gray Rd. in the part that was Stoney Creek. Google Maps has it all listed as Gray now, but the street signs still reflect the original naming along the road. One of Hamilton's grey areas.