History of the City of Hamilton

Almost two hundred years ago (1788) a number of survey lines were drawn, "setting in motion the series of events that would lead to the establishment of the city of Hamilton" (Dear, Drake & Reeds, 1987, p. 3). Three decades later, the lot defined by these lines appeared as the townsite on an early map of Hamilton (figure 1). The town site at Hamilton was "neither unique nor imaginative" (Dear, Drake & Reeds, 1987, p.99) and it was said that …

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