1846 HAMILTON - From a Frontier Town to the Ambitious City

Burlington, Ontario: North Shore Publishing, 1995. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo. (x) 142 pp. Trade paperback format. Very light edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white photographs and drawings. Includes two dropped-in tickets from The Presentation of Colours to the Highland Light Infantry of Canada by H.R.R. The Princess Margaret on August 1st, 1958 at Hamilton Civic Stadium. The Contents are: Foreword; Preface; Amazing Progress; Hamilton 1846; From Town to City; An Articulate Observer; The Spectator; Sketches of Scenery; A Most Exotic Locale - Waterdown; The Legend of Lover's Leap - Albion Falls; The View from Ancaster; The View from the Mountain; In the Spirit of Fellowship - Dundas; The Theatre Royal; Hamilton's Poet Laureate - Harriet Annie Wilkins; Some Boyhood Memories; Early News Wars Were Fierce; Fires Were a Serious Threat; City of Muddy Streets; Bumping Down to Dover - Stage Coach Rides; Not an Easy Transition; Hamilton Goes to the Polls - First Election; His Worship the Mayor - Colin Ferrie; A New City Hall Was in Order; The Battle Over the Gore; High Praise Indeed - a Buffalo Paper about the Ladies' Academy; The Cold and Snow of Winter - Horse Races on the Frozen Bay; Waterfront Was a Busy Place; Sick in a Strange Land; The Circus Left in a Hurry; It Rained on the Big Show; The Laird of Dundurn - Sir Allan MacNab; and Ambitious Little City..