MADE IN HAMILTON
20TH CENTURY
INDUSTRIAL TRAIL

SITE 18
COCA-COLA, 1929

Coca-Cola Ltd. of Atlanta, Georgia has been active in Hamilton since around the turn of the century. Many Hamiltonians still remember the company's old plant at the corner of Wilson and Wellington Streets, built in 1929. Bottles for this plant were first supplied by Hamilton's own Dominion Glass Company. The local Firestone factory provided tires for the company's fleet of trucks. The local Duncan Lithographing Company produced most of the company's adver-tisements.

In 1960, Mayor Lloyd D. Jackson officially opened the company's large new bottling and distribution plant on this site. Bottling operations were discontinued in the early 1980s. The facility presently operates as a warehouse and distribution hub for much of Coca-Cola's south-central Ontario market.

Workers at this plant are organized as United Food and Commercial Workers Local 175.