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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...

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...

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?

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.

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.

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...

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...

Here is a face book page on Jessie Bell Dixon. https://www.facebook.com/JessieBDixon

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

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...

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.

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?

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...

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...

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...

so before the line was double tracked, there would have only been one trolley wire, and after that, a second had to be added. But as the line on the beach wasn’t doubled, a second trolley wire wasn’t required. So were the pictures that show the two wires , taken on the beach? You posted a...

WOOPS!!! The Cataract hydro wires weren’t at the bottom of the canal, it was the electrical wires running from the HRER’s powerhouse to the swing bridge, and the radial railroad itself.

““By 1845, telegraph wires insulated with gutta-percha were being manufactured in the UK. It served as the insulating material for early undersea telegraph cables, including the first transatlantic telegraph cable.[5] The material was a major constituent of Chatterton's compound used as an...

Scott originally the radial line was only single track. This meant that when two cars were traveling in oppsite directions, one had to stop on a siding, to let the other pass. I wonder if there are any pictures showing the tracks at this time. From Wikipedia A single-track railway is a railway...

Scott I was asking about the wires on the three sets of poles that you said are in the aerial picture. Thes, or at least two of these weren’t for the radial. Regarding the radial tracks, I think that originally cars could only go in one direction at a time, requiring the use of sidings for an...