About Hamilton

The City of Hamilton is a rare marriage of topography and human settlement, one of a handful of urban centres in North America that are tiered and encircle a bay of significant size to serve as an international port. It is the area’s unique natural architecture that has contributed in great measure to the formation of a distinct regional character and heritage.

Hamilton is a city located in Canada, in the province of Ontario. It is currently the 8th largest census metropolitan area in Canada, with a population estimated at 714,900 in the metropolitan area (which includes the City of Hamilton, the City of Burlington and the Town of Grimsby).   Within the city itself the population was 490,268 in the 2001 census. It is located roughly 45 minutes southwest of Toronto and 45 minutes northwest of Niagara Falls.

Its nicknames — all relating to its waning days as a major industrial centre — include the Ambitious City, Steeltown, the Hammer, Hammertown, Lunchbucket City, and the Tale of Two Cities for it's variances of weather between the mountain and downtown. However, health care has outstripped heavy industry — exemplified by the twin steel giants of Stelco and Dofasco — as the largest employer. Moreover, the education, government, services and technology sectors have all dramatically developed as heavy industry has declined. Because of this, and the fact that the city's waterfront is in the middle of a re-birth, there is currently a movement to re-brand Hamilton as "The Bay City."

Hamilton has built on its historical and social background. Interesting attractions include a museum of aircraft (Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, a stately residence of a Prime Minister of Upper Canada (Dundurn Castle), a functioning nuclear reactor at McMaster University, a horticultural haven (Royal Botanical Gardens) and the Canadian Football Hall of Fame.

Local Articles

The WeareNetwork family joins forces with Kick Hunger to help kick hunger, both locally and abroad.....

Feds need to be at the table..

Massive sewage-sludge incinerator in the city's north end.....

Province of Ontario ending contracts with VON and St. Joseph's Home Care in April.

Hamilton Health Sciences plans for a "major restructuring"

The Lister project may not be dead yet....

The Lister project may not be dead yet....

Do you have what it takes to be an ANGEL?

Free snow removal.

Can Hamilton set the standard?

Police say the suspect is white, around 27, 5-foot-10....

The bats are back in town.

Just don't ask the city to explain.....

Just don't ask the city to explain.....

City council passes on yet another increase to cash strapped Hamiltonians.

There are benefits to Hamilton being a bull's eye for the vulnerable political party in the Oct. 10 election.

Sports and tourism officials in Hamilton are discussing if this city should jump into the bidding for the 2015 Pan Am Games.

The Hamilton Urban Core Community Health Centre downtown is worried McMaster University's proposed family clinic slated for the core will siphon government funding and resources away from it.

If the Tiger-Cats are looking for a mantra this season, "no excuses, just play" fits.

Canadian billionaire Jim Balsillie remains in the mix to buy the Nashville Predators.

It's a good thing the engineers were thinking ahead when they designed Copps Coliseum.

John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport officials are offering cabbies the same facilities as Hamilton Limo, thus diffusing tension between cabbies and the limo company over who gets airport fares.

Garden Bros. Circus - THE ENTERTAINMENT GIANT! has 70 years of experience providing fabulous family entertainment for audiences across North America and around the world.

Using a back yard chiminea or firepit is illegal in the city and can net homeowners a $396 charge from the Hamilton Fire Department, the same fee as excessive false fire alarms.

Ticket sales for the city's American Hockey League team have skyrocketed, merchandise has sold out and the phone hasn't stopped ringing at Copps Coliseum.

At least 10,000 Ontario women got cancer screening last year thanks to a Hamilton computer program.

City inspectors will be going door-to-door to test for high lead content in Hamilton's tap water.

Greta Peso is beside herself, scrambling to find money to give about 120 disadvantaged Hamilton kids something to do for the summer.

Columbian Chemical doesn't believe it was to blame for the oily, black fallout over parts of east Hamilton last summer...

Across the province, parents are raising more than half a billion dollars a year for their children's schools.

Membrane filter technology, pioneered in Hamilton by Zenon Environmental, may come to the rescue of Hamilton Harbour.

Jamie Bogart died last Friday after more than eight years of trying to get the province to treat his severe obesity.

Public awareness campaign takes off......

Your forest can reduce your taxes!

City giving back child supplement to poorer families; The Poverty Project...

For the first time this season, the Hamilton Bulldogs havemanaged to get points in more than four consecutive games.

A Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board trustee created an uproar this week after complaining that...

"Damn can opener ..."Ron Tarlton, the recently released Hamilton Tiger-Cats backup long-snapper jerked his hand away from the soup can's jagged edge...

"Flip a coin, heads or tails, pick a number, which shell is the pea under? 'Laugh about it, shout about it when you've got to choose. Every way you look at it, you lose.'

Eager entrepreneurs trying to make a fast buck on hot demand for the new Sony PlayStation 3 this holiday season have found...

Russell Murphy, Juno-winner-turned-courier, has to deliver a critical package downtown...

He smelled chicken."C'mon honey, open up now. C'mon, you...."

Murphy hated himself for what he was saying before the words had finished leaving his mouth.

The Story So Far: With Christmas Day approaching, a freak snow storm has stranded Russell Murphy, a courier driver in Hamilton...

The 12 Days Christmas * A HAMILTON STORY *...

A truck driver and an off-duty firefighter are being recommended by Hamilton police for commendations after...

Hamilton public school board trustees got an update last night on the forces affecting where they open, close and consolidate schools in the decade ahead.

Hamilton teams take 1st and 3rd at OFSAA!! Taylor Chiarot learned a lot about herself Saturday night. Chiarot, 17, had missed a few easy third quarter layups and...

Checking up on Mac's preemie miracles....

Saskatchewan, Laval vie for university football supremacy...

Nurses are going to political boot camp to get ready to run in the next election to protect health care from within.

While the dust is still settling, there's no way of knowing whether it was a pro-Fred Eisenberger or an anti-Larry Di Ianni vote that turned Hamilton on its head.

Brad Gushue hopes to make history for himself and Newfoundland.

Councillors on the city licensing committee were interviewed by OPP officers early in the investigation. They said police wanted to know how licensing procedures work...

Hamilton is lending almost $7 million to downtown developers who owe the city $1.1 million in unpaid taxes.

Christian high school celebrates 50 years with series of events on weekend...

Ditch school and send them to Copps Coliseum, as hip-hop throbs, cheerleaders spin overhead...

Buddies do good work to aid pal who was beaten...

Statistics Canada reported this summer that seven out of 10 kids aged four to eight don't eat enough fruits and veggies.

Hamilton author Trevor Cole has been nominated for a Governor General's Literary award for his novel The Fearsome Particles.

Milan Despinic, an engineer, knew he was the wrong guy to tell his daughter to get an iron ring.

Minister Offers Queen's Park as Alternate Site, Says Sunday Protesters are 'Putting Their Lives at Risk'

North Korea stoked regional tensions today, threatening more nuclear tests and saying additional sanctions imposed on it would be considered an act of war...

2 Hamilton mobsters, Pasquale and Angelo Musitano could be released today.

Computer chain hopes to click in Hamilton, with it's unique and inviting operation.

Knife-wielding robbers hold up gas station in brazen fashion.

Then tries to drive off Mountain.

Sandbar Tavern a former crack house is now city owned.

Jesse Lumsden returns to the Tiger-Cats!!

Now entering its fifth successful year, Raise-a-Reader kicks off its annual campaign with Raise-a- Reader Day on Thursday, September 28...

Sept.30 at the Morgan Firestone Arena in Ancaster.

Youth charged in sex assualt.

Caught on tape.....

Twist of fate leaves rugby star paralyzed.

Gun discovered and the chase was on!

Hamilton Library incredible savings on books.