![]() If that is true, then Hamilton's aura, its waterfront, is one of paradox of festivals, parks and pleasure boats and cappuccinos and also home to the busiest Canadian port on the Great Lakes, with more than 700 ships passing under Hamilton's lift bridge each year, moving more than $3 billion in 2018 in cargo. You are absolutely in Hamilton, although the west harbour does seem a world unto itself.Ī waterfront is where "the aura of a city resides," wrote Harvard University urban planning guru Alex Krieger. "The scenery, the quiet you wouldn't know you're in Hamilton." "I'm from England originally, and where I'm from there is a park similar to this," he said. Under a pavilion near the terminus of the park, a man named Jack Lewis gazes at the water, having driven from his home in Oakville for this very purpose as he often does. Less than three kilometres west, on the west harbour, two women chat while pushing their babies in strollers on a shaded path near Macassa Bay a couple eases a small fishing boat into the water at Bayfront Park. ![]() Next door, dry dock workers scrap a weathered Great Lakes tanker that had its day. Hard along the east shore of Hamilton Harbour sparks fly as a worker welds a hulking steel cylinder measuring five metres in diameter, destined for a project in Alberta's oilsands, in a shop that has a rail line running through it.įurther along the waterfront, stevedores operate a giant crane lifting heaving 12-ton slabs of steel from the hold of a ship that loaded in Greece and Turkey.
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