In March 2015, Hamilton was host to the JUNO Awards,[62] which featured performances by Hedley, Alanis Morissette and Magic!. 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This healthcare group provides inpatient and outpatient services, and mental illness or addiction help. [11] Since 1981, the metropolitan area has been listed as the ninth largest in Canada and the 3rd largest in Ontario. [119] The only hospital in Hamilton not under Hamilton Health Sciences is St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton, which has 777 beds and three campuses. Hamilton hosted an NHL team in the 1920s called the Hamilton Tigers. The Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board manages 114 public schools,[108] while the Hamilton-Wentworth Catholic District School Board operates 55 schools in the greater Hamilton area. The Hamilton County Tax Sale will be held on Thursday, October 1st at 10:00 AM and will be conducted as an electronic sale under IC 6-1.1-24-2(b)10 at www.zeusauction.com.The Tax Sale will continue until all tracts and real property have been offered for sale. After the 2019 federal election, Hamilton was represented by Filomena Tassi (Liberal - Hamilton West—Ancaster—Dundas), Matthew Green (NDP - Hamilton Centre), Bob Bratina (Liberal - Hamilton East—Stoney Creek), Scott Duvall - (NDP - Hamilton Mountain), and David Sweet (Conservative - Flamborough—Glanbrook). [76] After nearly declaring bankruptcy, Stelco returned to profitability in 2004. [16] Official city status was achieved on June 9, 1846, by an act of Parliament of the Province of Canada. Hamilton is home to two think tanks, the Centre for Cultural Renewal and Cardus, which deals with social architecture, culture, urbanology, economics and education and also publishes the LexView Policy Journal and Comment Magazine.[113]. [90], The most described religion in Hamilton is Christianity although other religions brought by immigrants are also growing. It surrounds the Town of Cobourg . A report by Hemson Consulting identified an opportunity to develop 1,000 hectares (2,500 acres) of greenfields (the size of the Royal Botanical Gardens) that could create an estimated 90,000 jobs by 2031. [10] Before amalgamation, the "old" City of Hamilton had 331,121 residents and was divided into 100 neighbourhoods. The shores of the bay were difficult to reach or see because they were hidden by a thick, almost impenetrable mass of trees and undergrowth ... Bears ate pigs, so settlers warred on bears. The eighty original lots had frontages of fifty feet; each lot faced a broad street and backed onto a twelve-foot lane. Bradley J. Seitz Jury Commissioner. The team traces their origins to the 1869 "Hamilton Foot Ball Club". [13] During the War of 1812, British regulars and Canadian militia defeated invading American troops at the Battle of Stoney Creek, fought in what is now a park in eastern Hamilton. The HWDSB has 11 trustees and the HWCDB has 9 trustees. "[33], George Hamilton, a settler and local politician, established a town site in the northern portion of Barton Township in 1815. Citizens of Hamilton are represented at all three levels of Canadian government - federal, provincial, and municipal. Students range from 4 years old to senior citizens and enrollment as of February 2007 was close to 4,000. Children aged 14 years and under accounted for 16.23% of the city's population, a decline of 1.57% from the 2011 census. In 2019, the Hamilton Honey Badgers will debuted as Hamilton's basketball team in the Canadian Elite Basketball League. An industrialized city in the Golden Horseshoe at the west end of Lake Ontario, Hamilton has a population of 536,917, and its census metropolitan area, which includes Burlington and Grimsby, has a population of 767,000. The award ceremony was held at the FirstOntario Centre in downtown Hamilton. Hamilton is home to the Royal Botanical Gardens, the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, the Bruce Trail, McMaster University, Redeemer University College and Mohawk College. Procter & Gamble and the Beech-Nut Packing Company opened manufacturing plants in 1914 and 1922, respectively, their first outside the US. Contact Us. Dofasco was North America's most profitable steel producer in 1999, the most profitable in Canada in 2000, and a long-time member of the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index. Hamilton bid for the Commonwealth Games in 2010 but lost to New Delhi. Every animal deserves a second chance at love — and life. [32], Between 1788 and 1793, the townships at the Head-of-the-Lake were surveyed and named. While Hamilton is not directly served by intercity rail, the Lakeshore West line does offer an off-peak bus connection and a peak-hours rail connection to Aldershot station in Burlington, which doubles as the VIA Rail station for both Burlington and Hamilton. These duties require my office to provide taxpayers, consumers, school districts and local governments a variety of services, all of which are part of this site. Hamilton and Metrolinx will build a provincially-funded LRT line (Hamilton LRT) in the early 2020s. At the same time, large numbers of Iroquois who had allied with Britain arrived from the United States and were settled on reserves west of Lake Ontario as compensation for lands they lost in what was now the United States. Calvin Christian School, Providence Christian School and Timothy Christian School are independent Christian elementary schools. Since January 2017, the majority of cases (73%) were male, and the average age was 36 years. Hamilton has an active theatre scene, with the professional company Theatre Aquarius, plus long-time amateur companies, the Players' Guild of Hamilton and Hamilton Theatre Inc.. Hamilton is also home to the Canadian Football Hall of Fame museum. The Hamilton County Auditor's Book-Plat-Parcel Number is furnished by the Hamilton County Recorder's Office, and must be accepted and used by the recipient with the understanding that the Hamilton County Recorder's Office makes no warranties, expressed or implied, concerning the accuracy, completeness, reliability, or suitability of this number. The Hamilton Asylum for the Insane, also called the Ontario Hospital and later the Hamilton Psychiatric Hospital, was initially intended to be an asylum for ‘inebriates’. well-trained and appropriately compensated staff. Each school board is governed by trustees. Property Reports and Tax Payments. [63] Flint and Hamilton hold the distinction of having the oldest continuous sister-city relationship between a U.S. and Canadian city, since 1957. Plan your trip now! [34] The townsite's design, likely conceived in 1816, was commonplace. [10] Residents of the city are known as Hamiltonians. Like our namesake, Alexander Hamilton, we have a feisty spirit that has helped leave our indelible mark on America. Other highways connecting Hamilton include Highway 5, Highway 6 and Highway 8. [25] Hamilton is one of 11 cities showcased in the book, Green City: People, Nature & Urban Places by Quebec author Mary Soderstrom, which examines the city as an example of an industrial powerhouse co-existing with nature. On January 1, 2001, the current boundaries of Hamilton were created through the amalgamation of the original city with other municipalities of the Regional Municipality of Hamilton–Wentworth. Please contact the Treasurer at county.treasurer@hamilton-co.org with your questions. Hamilton Mayor Fred Eisenberger said "the Pan Am Games will provide a 'unique opportunity for Hamilton to renew major sport facilities giving Hamiltonians a multi-purpose stadium, a 50-metre swimming pool, and an international-calibre velodrome to enjoy for generations to come'. Other denominations include the United Church (6.5%), Anglican (6.4%), Presbyterian (3.1%), Christian Orthodox (2.9%), and other denominations (9.8%). The township was named after Tess tickle Hamilton (governor)|Henry Hamilton]], Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec from 1782–1785. [111], The Hamilton Conservatory for the Arts is home to many of the area's talented young actors, dancers, musicians, singers and visual artists. [39] Visitors can often be seen swimming in the waterfalls during the summertime, although it is strongly recommended to stay away from the water: much of the watershed of the Chedoke and Red Hill creeks originates in storm sewers running beneath neighbourhoods atop the Niagara escarpment, and water quality in many of Hamilton's waterfalls is seriously degraded. Hamilton is representated in the Parliament of Canada by five Members of Parliament. Covid-19 Advisory. [94] Hamilton ranked first in Canada for police-reported hate crimes in 2016, with 12.5 hate crimes per 100,000 population. 291 A.F. For the county in New South Wales, Australia, see Wentworth County. Leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party and Leader of the Official Opposition, Andrea Horwath, represents Hamilton Centre, Paul Miller (NDP) represents Hamilton East-Stoney Creek, Monique Taylor (NDP) represents Hamilton Mountain, Sandy Shaw (NDP) represents Hamilton West—Ancaster—Dundas, and Progressive Conservative Donna Skelly represents Flamborough—Glanbrook.[98]. Hamilton is home to several post-secondary institutions that have created many direct and indirect jobs in education and research. This sandbar was deposited during a period of higher lake levels during the last ice age, and extends southeast through the central lower city to the escarpment. Hamiltonians aged 65 years and older constituted 17.3% of the population, an increase of 2.4% since 2011. [114] In the Köppen classification, Hamilton it is on the Dfb/Dfa border found in southern Ontario because the average temperature in July is 22.0 °C (71.6 °F), although the east falls on the hot summer subtype towards Niagara Falls. A member of the Iroquois Confederacy provided the route and name for Mohawk Road, which originally included King Street in the lower city. "Hamilton in 50 years will be the forward cleat in a golden horseshoe of industrial development from Oshawa to the Niagara River ... 150 miles long and 50 miles (80 km) wide...It will run from Niagara Falls on the south to about Oshawa on the north and take in numerous cities and towns already there, including Hamilton and Toronto. Hamilton Township is a rural township located in Northumberland County in central Ontario. [60] In 2018, Supercrawl celebrated its 10th anniversary with over 220,000 visitors.[61]. We at Hamilton Honey Farm are proud of our bees, they work hard for us. 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