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Lake Monsters

by North End Breezes | May 4, 2021 | Brian Roulston, Featured Post | 0 |

by Brian Roulston Almost every culture around the world has myths and legends of large snake-like...

Gas Lighting In Hamilton

by North End Breezes | Apr 2, 2021 | Brian Roulston | 0 |

By Brian Roulston Today, we often take for granted that our brightly lit streets or sidewalks have...

Burlington Heights

by North End Breezes | Mar 1, 2021 | Brian Roulston | 0 |

By Brian Roulston There was a time when there were no cars or roads, only a trail left by horses through the dense forest. On a clear sunny day, the sky would be a heavenly blue. Free of smog and pollution which would not become...

The Boathouse Community of Cootes Paradise

by North End Breezes | Mar 1, 2021 | Brian Roulston | 0 |

By Brian Roulton Sometime during the early 1900s, a community with about 100 boathouses made...

ICE HARVEST ON HAMILTON BAY

by North End Breezes | Dec 30, 2020 | Brian Roulston | 0 |

Cutting Ice On the Bay Image courtesy of Local History and Archives, Hamilton Public Library By...

CHRISTMAS SHOPPING

by North End Breezes | Dec 3, 2020 | Brian Roulston | 0 |

By Brian Roulston Many of us will be turning to the internet to do some or all of our Christmas...

A History Lesson: The Spanish Flu

by North End Breezes | Nov 2, 2020 | Brian Roulston | 0 |

By Brian Roulston The First World War saw Great Britain mobilize almost nine million men and women...

Hamilton Highlights…..Did you know?

by North End Breezes | Oct 1, 2020 | Brian Roulston | 0 |

Submitted by Brian Roulston 1960– Barton Township annexed by the City of Hamilton and the township ceased to exist. 1960– CHCH Television Tower is a 357.5 metre-high guyed TV mast in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada which is the...

International Harvester

by North End Breezes | Sep 30, 2020 | Brian Roulston | 0 |

Submitted by Brian Roulston Today, Fluke Transport Group is one company operating out of the...

Hamilton – The Electric City

by North End Breezes | Sep 3, 2020 | Brian Roulston | 0 |

Submitted by Brian Roulston On the corner of Wellington and Ferrie streets is a mural of Nikola...

FIRESTONE CANADA

by North End Breezes | Jul 13, 2020 | Brian Roulston | 0 |

By Brian Roulston Thirty-four years ago, in 1986, some two thousand workers grabbed their lunch buckets and punched out for the last time at the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company of Canada. This huge plant founded in 1919...