Hamilton back then

Pictorial history of Hamilton, Ontario. Each full page photo is supplemented with a detailed discussion of the the scene on a facing page. Includes 118 black and white photos including shots of Dundurn Castle, Battery Lodge, Mountain View Hotel, Concession Street, Strongman's Road, The Insane Asylum, the airport, Ferguson Avenue train station, Stuart St station, the Hamilton Street railway and horse drawn streetcars, the Desjardins Canal, Longwood road near Cootes paradise, the Rock Gardens (the Royal Botanical Gardens), the Sunken garden at McMaster University, The Ocean House and the Beach Strip, the bascule bridge over the Burlington canal, the Skyway and the toll booths, Harbor Beach, Crown Point, Gage Park, the Crystal Palace, Whitehern, the house built in a day, Stanley Mills department store, the Arcade department store, Hamilton Provident and Loan Company and Bell Telephone Co., the Garrick Club, the Hamilton Herald, statue of John A MacDonald at Gore Park, the fountain at Gore Park, the Hamilton Pure Milk Company, the ice storm of 1898, the Undermount/ St Joseph's Hospital, the collapse of the railway trestle in 1895, the Highlanders, the Cenotaph on King, VE day parades, ice huts on the canal, YMCA building, HAAA grounds and cricket, Leander boat club, the Forum arena, the British Empire Games (later the Commonwealth Games), and the Grey Cup and Canadian rugby (football). 120 pages.