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The Dieppe Memorial on Beach Boulevard is the
finest monument of its kind in Canada
commemorating the ill-fated 1942 raid on the coast
of France. The Royal Hamilton Light Infantry made up
10 % of the raiding force. Half of them were killed or
captured. The memorial was unveiled on August 19,
2003 through the efforts of Hamilton veterans.
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Ward 5 Historical Fact Sheet
The government of Upper Canada purchased the
Beach Strip from the Mississauga Indians in 1795 for
100 pounds.
The Burlington Ship Canal was opened in 1826
making Hamilton a major port on the Great Lakes.
The channel was deepened and expanded steadily
until twinned in 1931.
The Burlington Ship Canal.
The first lighthouse on the Beach Strip was built of
wood in 1838. When it was destroyed by fire in
1858, the present day limestone lighthouse was
constructed.
The first bridge across the canal was built for the
Grand Trunk Railway in 1878. It was a giant swing
bridge.
In 1894, the Hamilton, Grimsby and Beamsville
Electric Radial Railway opened to carry passengers
and farm products. Its route ran through Ward 5
paralleling Lawrence Road and King Street with a
stop at Albion Road. The Hamilton, Burlington and
Oakville Radial Railway built in 1896 also ran
through Ward 5 along the Beach Strip.
Ward 5 Historical Fact Sheet
‘Carrying Place’ was the location at the south end of
Long (Burlington) Beach which served as a portage
for goods between Lake Ontario and Lake Macassa
(Burlington Bay) as the natural outlet to the bay was
too shallow to permit transport of goods for most
of the year.
The first public house at the head of Lake Ontario
built in 1794 was in Ward 5. Constructed on the
orders of Lieutenant Governor Simcoe, the King’s
Head Inn was
located
strategically
on the route
between
Niagara and
York
(Toronto),
near the
present
Hutch’s
Restaurant.
Used to store King’s Head Inn
military supplies, the Inn was burned by the
Americans in 1813, just prior to the Battle Stoney
Creek.
The Water Works opened in 1860 to pump water
from Lake Ontario to
the Kenilworth
Reservoir. This
provided Hamilton
with an abundant
municipal water
supply, making it one
of the most
progressive cities in
The Hamilton Museum of
Canada. Gartshore
Steam and Technology.
Iron and Brass
Foundry in Dundas
built the giant
flywheel pumps. The water works is an outstanding
example of 19th century engineering and is now a
national historic site.
Ward 5 occupies most of the Red Hill Valley below
the escarpment. The large indentation in the Niagara
Escarpment, which forms the Red Hill Valley, was
caused by erosion pre-dating the ice age.
Born in 1757, Augustus Jones came to Canada in
1787 just as the land boom for United Empire
Loyalists began. A trained surveyor, he mapped most
of the townships in this area of Upper Canada. He
built a home on a lagoon beside the present day
Wild Water Works in Confederation Park. A statue
in the middle of Stoney Creek honours his legacy.
The Red Hill Creek has been known by various
names dating back to the earliest settlers – Clench’s
Creek and Lottridge Creek. By 1812 it was known as
Big Creek and by the end of the 19th century as Red
Hill Creek. The valley was an indigenous route linking
the lake to the Mohawk Trail on top of the
escarpment. It is only natural for it to be the route
of the long-debated Red Hill Creek Parkway opened
on November 3, 2007. It may prove to be the
catalyst for the future progress of the city.
The Dynes family
was among the
first settlers on
the Beach Strip.
John Dynes
opened a hotel in
1846. It was
rebuilt after a fire
Dynes Tavern.
in 1886. By 1890 it
was famous for its
wild duck dinners and entertainment. Until its
demolition in 2007, it was one of the oldest
operating taverns in Ontario.
Henry Van Wagner settled in a log cabin in Saltfleet
in 1818. As a millwright, he built many of the mills in
the Hamilton area, and according to family legend
gave the Town of Waterdown its name.Van Wagner’s
Beach takes its name from Peter Spohn Van Wager,
Henry’s son.
For almost two hundred years, a beautiful Georgian
Colonial style home built by William Gage for his
daughter, Susan Gage Nash, stood on the corner of
King Street and Nash Road. In 1999 it was spared
from the developer’s wrecking ball by being moved
to Battlefield Park. There once were seven Nash
families living along this section of King Street. The
family was synonymous for decades with fruit
farming.
Nash/Gage house on the move..
The first industries in Ward 5 were established on
Red Hill Creek and Felker’s Falls. Allan McDougall
built the first salt works in the valley in 1812. The
valley was intensely farmed. Some of the prominent
farming families were: Lottridge, Gage, Gray, Nash,
Nugent Pottruff, Spera, House, Harris, Peace, Jackson
and Veevers
Stoney Creek Cemetery is one of the oldest burial
grounds in the city. Located on the south west
corner of King and Centennial, it served as a
landmark for British forces assembling to attack the
American forces camped around the Gage
homestead in June 1813.
The farm adjoining the Stoney Creek Cemetery
belonged to the Webster family. Webster’s Side Road
became Highway # 20 in 1935 and is now called
Centennial Parkway.