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1850-1879
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| 1854 | The first Great Western Railway train runs (January 17) |
| 1857 | Fisher and McQuesten firm is renamed L.D. Sawyer and Company |
| 1857 | Great Western Railway acquires Hamilton and Toronto Railway Company line |
| 1857 | Great Western Railway accident at Desjardins Canal (March 12) |
| 1859 | R.M. Wanzer begins manufacturing sewing machines in Hamilton |
| 1859 | B. Greening and Company is formed |
| 1859 | Grand Trunk Railway begins operations (November 21) |
| late 1850s | Gurney and Ware Scale Company is established |
| 1860 | Dundas Cotton Mill (later Dundas Cotton Manufacturing Company) established |
| 1892 | Quimby and Tuckett tobacco firm is formed |
| 1863 | Gurney and Carpenter Iron Foundry is renamed E. and C. Gurney Company |
| 1866 | John Gartshore & Company goes into receivership |
| 1866 | Tuckett and Billings firm is established |
| 1866 | Canada Screw Company is established in Dundas, Ontario |
| 1867 | Confederation (July 1) |
| 1868 | Montreal Rolling Mills is established in Montreal, Quebec (May 8) |
| 1869 | Hamilton and Lake Erie Railway Company purchases the assets of the Hamilton and Port Dover Railway |
| 1870 | Canada Iron Foundry and Pipe Works is established (later Canada Pipe Foundry) |
| 1872 | Hamilton Tool Works established |
| 1872 | Hamilton and Northwestern Railway chartered |
| 1873 | T.W. Hand Firework Company Limited begins producing fireworks |
| 1873 | Hamilton Street Railway Company incorporated (March 29) |
| 1873 | Hamilton and Lake Erie Railway merges with Hamilton and Northwestern Railway (name remains Hamilton and Northwestern Railway) |
| 1875 | Hamilton and Dundas Street Railway is incorporated |
| 1877 | F.W. Fearman Packing Company Limited is established |
| 1879 | Hamilton and Northwestern Railway merges with Northern Railway of Canada to become North and Northwestern Railway (June) |
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