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Our friend Colwyn Beynon in the news. :tbu: IDEA No. 10 -- Build a Crafters Row on the beach The Hamilton Spectator More articles by this columnist More stories... (April 22, 2005) -- While almost all of our contributors have focused on looking forward, local historian Colwyn G...

This was just sent in by Councilor Collins; :tbu: The City's new initiative "Trees Across Hamilton" will be in Confederation Park this Saturday (May 7th) between 9am and 12pm. We're looking for 10 to 15 volunteers to help plant 200 trees in the park in the naturalized areas. I've attached a...

Due to some booking conflicts, the Beach Council Meeting has been delayed one week. The May meeeting is now on May 10th, 7 pm at the Hamilton Beach Rescue Hall. (Across from the Dynes)

Had many asking about this. Mysterious loud booms wake sleepers around 3 a.m. Not from jet, quake or steel mill By John Burman The Hamilton Spectator BURLINGTON (Apr 28, 2005) Whatever jolted folks from their beds just after 3 a.m. yesterday is a mystery. It wasn't an earthquake or a sonic...

Beach area residents concerned about sludge pond. BARB MCKAY The Hamilton Sun, Sunday April 24th. A HAMILTON Beach neighbourhood has a potentially toxic situation on its hands. Residents worry a sludge pond in the Hamilton Harbour may be leaching toxic waste into their backyards. Beach Blvd...

I am no tree hugger, but I don't get this one. The City builds the new Path and replants many trees to green up the area and to help with soil erosion, fend off the lake winds, shade, etc. Now Hydro1 finds it necessary to remove many of these trees because they think that they might interfere...

The Globe and Mail Monday, November 27, 1950 Winds Roar Defiance As Volunteers Fight Burlington Area Flood. By PHIL JONES Van Wagner's Beach, Nov. 28 (Staff), "The wind has died, thank God." An arm-weary Hamilton fireman dropped his shovel and looked up into the sky. A Red Cross volunteer...

This article from Biz(Spring 2005) starts out the way most stories on the Port Authority do, their vision, future goals, but it was just too large a story to post it all. .....According to HPA marketing and trade development manager Robert Matthews, the HPA's view of the port is not entirely...

From the Hamilton Public Library's Special Collections section. :tbu: Jessie Bell Dixon (1878-1938) was a very talented local amateur photographer residing at 771 Beach Boulevard on the Beach Strip. She was a native Hamiltonian, daughter of William and Hannah Dixon and had two brothers...

Attached are three maps of the Beach as the original was too big to scam as one, thanks to Mary :tbu: at the Hamilton Public Library's Special Collections section. These maps were made back in about 1947 for the Underwriters Survey Bureau and there are a couple points to make from them. The...

Thanks to a tip from Historian C. G. Beynon, it seems that there use to be an old military fort located just on Burlington side of the Canal. This fort is shown on a map from an 1875 Atlas that is part of the Library's Special Collections section.(Member Bobbythefinch also posted this map in...

Member Crawfish found this one, good picture of the Beach. :tbu: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=hamilton,ontario&ll=43.288364,-79.791384&spn=0.026608,0.038710&t=k&hl=en

If you plan to use the Path, as many people will be doing this weekend and want to cross the Lift Bridge, you had better make other plans. The pedestrian sidewalk has started to heave badly in some spots and is unsafe to use. This walkway has, for many years had a minor heaving problem, but...

If you have been on the Path or the beach, you have seen the huge amount of debris push in over the winter. It covers the beach from one end to the other, I have never seen so much, the City is going to need more than just one dumpster this year.

From the Hamilton Spectator June 6th 1951 Made Year-round Colony By Expansion Of City Community Was Settled Before City; Governed By Commission Story and Photos by Bruce Murdoch Burlington Beach, the three-and-a-half or four-mile-long sandstrip separating Lake Ontario and Hamilton Bay, is...

From the Hamilton Spectator, January 29, 1988. 'Lighthouse nut' hoping her new book is a keeper By John Gast, The Spectator AUTHOR MARY Weeks-Mifflin has seen the light. That's light, as in house. There are books and photographs about lighthouses all over the house, pictures of lighthouses on...

As many of you have probably seen, the Dynes has posted all the Beach birthdays, but I don't see TC there. I will have to ask Tony about that. :apat: Happy Birthday to Karen, Doug, Guy, Tammy, Nancy, Tony and TC. :birthday: Scotto

Welcome to our newest member, lt-hse-pete has finally got his computer turned on and joined up. Maybe he can share some of his old lighthouse stories with us. Welcome aboard Pete. :wavey: Scotto

Before Pete was the Lighthouse Keeper, there was C.J. Van Cleaf as the keeper of the light. Ex-resident M. Gould :tbu: has sent in a couple Hamilton Spectator photos from June 1951. To be noted, "Pete's" house was moved from the other side of the road, I didn't know that.

A few residents have been asking me about the proposed zoning changes at 1014 & 1038 Beach Blvd. Councillor Chad Collins has sent in some info on this subject. :tbu: Application for a Change in Zoning for Lands Located at 1014 Beach Boulevard (Hamilton) (PD05021) (Ward 5) (Item 8.3)That Zoning...