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    Oldest House

    Scott from your post in the ‘1947-1948 Houses Moved’ thread, I know many houses were moved from VanWagners to the Beach Strip after Hurricane Hazel, but I believe that occured in 1954. I don't recall hearing anything being moved in and around 1948, possibly some of our history members may have...
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    Oldest House

    Scott in your June 4th 2017 post in this thread you quote Dorothy turcotte “p" When the Hamilton and Northwestern Railway laid its line across the Beach in 1875, a new era began on the sand strip. Until then, anyone wishing to reach the Beach from Hamilton or Toronto had to come by boat or dirt...
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    Oldest House

    Scott when the first houses were built on the beach, from whom (or maybe what government department) was the land purchased from? Was the beach part of the Upper Canada Land Grant?
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    Oldest House

    So given that the ‘walls of today’ are not original, that could mean that all of the brick was removed in order to move the house. And then the brick was replaced.
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    Oldest House

    You say that the parapet-brick walls are considered the historical feature of the house. Why wouldn’t the entire house be? And maybe the ‘Canadian Rail and Marine World’ (on micro film at the Hamilton Public Library has some information on why the house was moved.
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    Hydro wires on the beach - Radial Railway

    March 9th 1911 DOMINION POWER AND TRANSMISSION COMPANY Outdoor Switching Station at Bartonville for Controlling the High Tension Circuits Leading from DeCew Falls to Hamilton Brantford Dundas and Oakville THE Dominion Power & Transmission Company of Hamilton Ontario owns one of the most...
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    Hydro wires on the beach - Radial Railway

    You pointed out on the Hydro Wires thread, that Dorothy Turcotte refers to a powerhouse at the south end of the beach. And I asked the question, but not very clearly, if prior to the shore infill, if the powerhouse built by (the Cataract CO.) could have originally been on the south end of the...
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    Jessie Bell Dixon (1878-1938)

    Here is a face book page on Jessie Bell Dixon. https://www.facebook.com/JessieBDixon
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    Notable Residents of Hamilton Beach

    Some biographical information George Elias Tuckett http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/tuckett_george_elias_12E.html Sir John Gibson http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/gibson_john_morison_15E.html Hugh Cossart Baker
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    Oldest House

    Scott I wasn’t very clear in that post. This is what you said in the thread ‘1948 Houses Moved’ “I could get some direct quotes from the book, "Memories of Van Wagner's Beach and Parkview Survey", but I don't it at this time. However, the people did own the land that their homes were on, some...
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    Oldest House

    So despite the fact that people were building large expensive houses on the south side of the canal, they didn’t own the lots themselves? I thought that you said in the thread ‘Houses Moved’ (which I can’t seem to find) this only happened on the north side.
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    Oldest House

    Scott were the lots on the south side of the canal aucsioned off and then leased to the purchaser? I think you said in an other thread that this was only the case on the north side. And what is meant by leased to the purchaser?
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    Oldest House

    Second try Nothing was written about the HRER's rebirth during the first months of 1896, an indication that the company had sunk so low in its fortunes that none of the Hamilton area newspapers considered it worth following. At the start of March 1896 the HRER began making applications to...
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    Hydro wires on the beach - Radial Railway

    And the Hamilton Radial Electric Railroad (HRER) page indicates that the line only used the one powerhouse, the one on the north side of the canal. And Scott I think you said in an e-mail that the Dominion powerhouse was built in 1907, (some eleven years after the HRER started running) by which...
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    Hydro wires on the beach - Radial Railway

    BEACH ARTICLES FROM 1956 “January 30th/57 is my guess for this letter. Many Beach Residents Left To Tax? To the Editor: In the last few years agitation was rampant to change the Beach into a village. This resulted in three plebiscites being held. Each time the residents voted to retain the...
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