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The annual Beach Clean-Up will take place this weekend; Date; Saturday May 3rd Time; 9:00 am to 12:00 noon Place; The Beach Rescue Unit Hall. Between 11am and 12noon there will be hotdogs and refreshments available. Garbage bags and gloves will be provided by the City of Hamilton.

The Brant Inn was east of the tracks, located on the shore of the lake. Collection's Canada (taken Oct. 24th 1927); Old Post Cards; Edit; I have added another picture of the Brant Inn from 1927; Courtesy Burlington Archives. Courtesy Burlington Archives.

There seems to be some confusion on my part about the different hotels that were in business near the canal, mostly the Lakeside Tavern. I had thought that the Perry Hotel and the Lakeside were different buildings, but looking at the attached pictures, the first shows the Perry Hotel with the...

Posted with permission from the Hamilton Spectator _________________________________________________ Feb 15, 2012 Brant Inn By Jeff Mahoney Walking out onto the sloping grounds of Spencer Smith Park in Burlington, at its far western reaches, I ask Stewart Brown where the old place...

Date; Good Friday ( April 18th) Time; Pictures start at 10am, Easter Hunt starts at 11am. A donation of $2 is appreciated.

From Tourism Burlington http://www.tourismburlington.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Scenic-Beach-Drive-Burlington-to-Hamilton.pdf

I recently attended a presentation given at the Burlington Historical Society where the topic of concern was Canals of area. The Welland Canal, the Burlington Canal and the Desjardins Canal were discussed during a Power presentation. There was a speaker on hand who did a great explaining the...

Dear Beach Strip Resident, As it has for the past 119 years, The Around the Bay Road Race, will be taking place On Sunday March 30, 2014 This is the 120th Anniversary of the Around the Bay Road Race and will see over nine thousand participants running through Hamilton and Burlington. Money...

Hamilton Spectator Traffic on the Burlington Canal Lift Bridge will be restricted to the northbound lanes of the bridge from today until Friday. Public Works and Government Services Canada is advising motorists of traffic disruptions on the bridge from 7 a.m. today until 7 a.m. on Friday...

Sunday, March 9, 2:00 pm, Beach Canal Lighthouse Group's General Meeting will be held at the Fortinos (Plains Road), Community Room, QEW-403 Centre (where Ikea is), 1059 Plains Road East (at Francis Road), Burlington. Erno Rossi will be giving an illustrated presentation about the 1903 and...

Some of these have already been posted in the Beach Trail thread where there was some talk about how cold it is this year and doesn't seem to ending anytime soon.

Nancy SMITH SMITH, Nancy Peacefully in the arms of her loving husband and life partner Bob, of 37 years, at St. Peter's Hospital on Wednesday, February 5, 2014, at the age of 53. Predeceased by her parents Don and Muriel Dusenbury (nee Little), brother Michael and father-in-law Robert Smith...

Burlington lift bridge is ‘money pit’ Bridge an unfair burden on local taxpayers (Editorial, Feb. 21) The Hamilton Spectator Here we go again! The federal government has been attempting to divest itself of the lift bridge for probably 20 years. It has been on its "divestiture list" for as long...

Thanks Sue, I liked how someone wrapped a scarf around the carving to save it from the winter. More on the carvings here; http://hamiltonbeachcommunity.com/forum/threads/bills-chips-off-the-old-blocks.2170/#post-14140 Ribfest 2014

Margaret Campbell YOUNG (Wood) YOUNG, Margaret Campbell (Wood) After a sudden illness, Margaret died peacefully on Monday, February 17, 2014, in Charlotte, North Carolina. Margaret will be forever loved and remembered by her husband, Scott, her sons, Adam (and Nicole) and Brian, and her...

Bridge an unfair burden on local taxpayers Not exactly. It's a perfect example of how senior governments love to shovel their (insert applicable expletive here) on to the neighbour's lawn in order to make theirs look better. It might do that, but it puts a completely unfair burden on local...

No bridge envy here The Hamilton Spectator By Matthew Van Dongen Strike the province and port authority off the list of possible takers for an aging and increasingly unpopular Burlington Canal Lift Bridge. A federal suggestion that local governments take over the bridge - and an estimated $2...

Posted with permission from the Hamilton Spectator ___________________________________________________ Local politicians say cities can't take on the cost By Matthew Van Dongen The federal government wants to off-load the half-century-old Burlington Canal Lift Bridge onto the cities of...

Happy Anniversary to the forum which is in it's tenth year, many thanks to all that have helped out along the way and to those who have sent in bits and pieces of Beach history over the years. Thanks to those who contribute on a daily basis, weekly or just once in a while, once again thank you...

Attached is an old postcard showing a shed located in the same spot that the insurance map has a telephone office listed. It has the roof style as the one in the picture in the above post, could this be our telephone office?