MADE
IN HAMILTON
19TH CENTURY
INDUSTRIAL TRAIL
SITE
9
JOHN CALDER & COMPANY, 1880
This
Renaissance Revival building was constructed in 1858 to house the wholesale
grocery and dry goods business of prominent Hamilton merchant John Young. The
"Commercial Block", designed by noted Hamilton architect F. J. Rastrick,
was converted to manufacturing use by the early 1880s.
Workers
in this plant were organized under the banner of the United Garment Workers
of America before the First World War. Today they are represented as UNITE Locals
219-C and 1441.
James Stewart & Company Foundry once stood on the parking lot to the north of this building. Stewart worked as a pattern-maker at the McQuesten, Fisher & Company foundry in town, before starting his own business in 1845. Twenty-five years later the MacNab Street foundry had grown to be the second largest stove shop in town, employing over 60 men and boys. Workers in this plant were organized.
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