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Some 70km from Toronto,
HAMILTON
lies at the extreme western end of Lake Ontario and was the focus of a district first surveyed by George Hamilton, a Niagaran storekeeper-turned-landowner who moved here in 1812 to escape the war between America and Britain. Strategically located, the town was soon established as a trading centre, but its real growth began with the development of the farm-implements industry in the 1850s. By the turn of the last century, Hamilton had become a major steel producer and today its mills churn out sixty percent of the country's output.
The City
For a city of over 300,000 people, Hamilton is not over-endowed with attractions. The finest building in the centre is
Whitehern
(mid-June to Aug Tues-Sun 11am-4pm; Sept to mid-June Tues-Sun 1-4pm; $3.50), a couple of minutes' walk east of...
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