scotto
12-01-2016, 11:42 PM
According to an article from the Spectator dated May 1874, H.L. Bastien had a boat house across from the Ocean House.
BEACH AFFAIRS
The Parks Committee Won't Endure the Encroachment of Squattters.
Yesterday afternoon the parks committee went to the beach, inspected the city property there, decided upon certain improvements and resolved to take action to defend the city from individuals who are encroaching upon its rights.
The G.T.R. authorities will be asked to take down those portions of its fence along the lake front which are built across the city's six side roadways between lots 1 and 50, so as to leave those roadways without obstruction, from the main road to the lake.
P. D. Crerar will be notified to remove a boat house which he has built on city property.
The committee refused to grant H. L. Bastien permission to extend his boat house opposite the Ocean house bar. The present boat-house occupies 46 feet of the water front, and Mr. Bastien took steps to expropriate some 60 feet more of the waterfront to build, so it is said, a candy store and residence.”
Scott,
Wasn’t all of the beach city property?
And the railroad line on the beach in 1874, wasn’t the Grand Trunk, (GTR)it was the Northern and North Western Railroad (N&NW). The GTR purchased the N&Nw in 1888. Please check with Charles Cooper’s book ‘Hamilton’s Other Railroad’. Is the date ‘1874’ a typo on your part?
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