|
1920-1939
|
| 1920 | Slater and Barnard Company is renamed N. Slater Company |
| 1920 | Hamilton Street Railway discontinues using open cars |
| 1921 | Gurney Foundry Company is closed |
| 1922 | Beech-Nut Packing Company establishes Canadian operations in Hamilton |
| 1923 | Grand Trunk Railway is acquired by Canadian National Railways |
| 1923 | Dominion Canners Limited is renamed Canadian Canners Limited |
| 1923 | Hamilton and Dundas Street Railway service is terminated |
| 1925 | Brantford and Hamilton Electric Railway merges with Hamilton Radial Electric Railway |
| 1926 | Hamilton Street Railway purchases and runs first motorized busses (August 26) |
| 1929 | Dominion Power and Transmission Company begins to replace Hamilton Street Railway's radial lines with bus lines |
| 1929 | The stock market crashes and the Great Depression begins (October 24; ends around 1939) |
| 1930 | T.W. Hand Firework Company Limited acquires Dominion Fireworks Company and moves to Cooksville, Ontario |
| 1930 | Tuckett Tobacco Company Limited is acquired by Imperial Tobacco Company of Canada |
| 1930 | Dominion Power and Transmission Company is taken over by Ontario Hydro |
| 1930 | Hamilton Radial Electric Railway line is abandoned |
| 1930 | Hamilton, Grimsby, and Beamsville Electric Railway line is abandoned |
| 1931 | Beech-Nut Packing Company is acquired by Life-Savers Limited |
| 1932 | Hamilton and Barton Incline Railway is closed (May) |
| 1936 | Hamilton Incline Railway ceases operations (August 15) |
| 1939 | World War II (September 10: Canada declares war on Germany) |
|
|
|