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1815
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A chopping mill on Bay Street is the first industry in Hamilton |
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1827
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The Green family of Hamilton makes the first matches in Canada |
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December, 1832
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The first stove design in Canada is patented |
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1836
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The first threshing machine in Canada is manufactured by Fisher and McQuesten |
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1842
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The first brewery in Hamilton is Showden and Middlewood (later the Spring Brewery) |
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December,
1846
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The first telegraph wire in Canada is strung between Hamilton and Toronto |
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1849
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Paul T. Ware of Hamilton manufactures the first watch made in Canada |
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1849
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John S. Bigelow of Montreal (eventually incorporated into Stelco) is first in Canada to manufacture cut nails |
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1851
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Gore Powder Mills is the first nitroglycerine manufacturing company in Canada |
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1853
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The first smoothing file in Canada is manufactured by the Beech firm |
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January,
1854
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Great Western Railway becomes the first railway in Hamilton, and the second railway in the Dominion of Canada |
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1855
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The Joseph Flint company is the first saw industry in Canada |
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1856
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Daniel C. Gunn engine shop on Wellington Street North, Hamilton, Ontario, produces first Canadian-built locomotives |
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1858
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Reverend R.J. McGeorge refers to Hamilton as "The Ambitious City" |
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1860s
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The first burners for coal oil lamps in Canada are made by the Young company |
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1864
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Hamilton Glass Works is the first pressed glass factory in Western Canada |
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1866
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First paper bag produced in Canada by Buntin, Gillies, and Company |
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1867
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Great Western Railway begins to operate the world's first dining car |
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1869
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Great Western Railway installs first steel rolling mill in Canada |
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1870
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R. Campbell and Company is the first company in North America to use the process of enamelling |
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1873
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T.W. Hand manufactures the first fireworks in Canada |
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1874
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The first street car transportation (horse-pulled) begins in Hamilton |
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1879
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The first cloth burial casket in Canada is manufactured in Hamilton |
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May
15, 1879
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Hamilton is the site of the first commercial long distance telephone line in the British Empire |
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February
1, 1881
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The first public telephone in the British Empire is installed in Hamilton |
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1887
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Norton Manufacturing Company (later the American Can Company of Canada) produces the first automatic can manufacturing equipment in Canada |
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1888
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Hamilton is the site of the first active assembly of the Knights of Labour in Canada |
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1897
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Canadian Westinghouse builds first railway air brakes in Canada |
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1898
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Canadian Colored Cotton Mills is the first company in Hamilton to switch from steam power to hydroelectric power. |
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April 12, 1898
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John Moodie drives the first gasoline automobile in Canada along Kings Street; the second in North America |
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1902
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International Harvester is the first major United States industry to locate in Hamilton |
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1903
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First automobile club in Canada, the Hamilton Automobile Club, is formed |
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1903
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First jam in Canada is produced by E.D. Smith and Sons Limited |
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1904
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The first ice cream cone in Canada is made by a Hamiltonian |
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1913
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Stelco installs North America's first electrically-powered rod and bar mill |
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1914
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Canadian Westinghouse manufactures first "turn-over" toasters in Canada |
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1914
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Hamilton is connected to Toronto by the first concrete highway built in Canada, the King's Highway No. 2 |
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1915
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Canadian Westinghouse builds first completely electrically-equipped steel mill in Canada |
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1915
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Dominion Sheet Metal Company (later absorbed by Dofasco) is the first to manufacture sheets of galvanized steel in Canada |
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1917
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Robert Newbigging produces first phonograph in Canada in his King Street West factory |
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1917
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Canadian Westinghouse manufactures first gramophones in Canada |
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September
15, 1922
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Firestone Tire and Rubber Company of Canada manufactures first Canadian-made tire |
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1923
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Canadian Westinghouse is the first company to manufacture radios in Canada |
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1928
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Stelco is the first company in North America to clean gas from the blast furnace and reuse it as fuel |
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1933
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Canadian Westinghouse manufactures first electric refrigerators in Canada |
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1935
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Dofasco installs first continuous pickling line in Canada |
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1939
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Canadian Westinghouse manufactures world's first single-tank circuit breakers |
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1941
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Otis-Fensom manufactures first Bofors anti-aircraft guns in Canada |
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1948
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Stelco installs first continuous cold-reduction mill in Canada |
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1948
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Canadian Westinghouse designs and builds first Canadian television set |
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1954
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Dofasco pioneers oxygen steel making in North America |
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1960
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Stelco is the first company in Canada to use filters in its open hearth furnaces |
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1960
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Canadian Westinghouse is the first company to produce gas turbines in Canada |
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June,
1961
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Stelco is first in the world to use an "electronic mail route" to link its various mills |
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December
27, 1963
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Stelco is the first Canadian steel producer to manufacture more than three million ingot tons of steel in one year |
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1968
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Dofasco is the first steel mill in North America to install a scanning electron probe microscope |
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November
17, 1968
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Stelco is the first Canadian steel producer to manufacture four million ingot tons of steel in one year |
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November,
1985
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Hamilton Street Railway uses first Natural Gas Vehicle (N.G.V.) busses in North America |
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March,
1987
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Hamilton Street Railway installs FRED (Fare Reading Devices) in its busses, the first electronic cash boxes in Canada |
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February,
1991
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Stelco was the first steel company in North America to use the Z-Line process for coating steel with zinc |
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