North Ender of The Year It’s time again to start thinking about The North Ender of the Year Award! Who is your choice? Send your nomination to [email protected] The date is Saturday, July 13, 2019. Check the Breezes online for time and location JULY 2019 | VOLUME 7 | [email protected] | WWW.NORTHENDBREEZES.COM | @NORTHENDBREEZES | FACEBOOK.COM/NORTHENDBREEZES Ten Outdoorsy and Nearly Free Things THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE SUBMITTED BY ROSE DIVECHA to do Around Hamilton this Summer SUBMITTED BY CANDY VENNING Hamilton ‘Bucket list’. The RBG has 6 Take the free trolley to the water- regular canoe trips you can register for, 1 See at least 2 new waterfalls this front and have a picnic in Bayfront Park they provide the canoe & lifejackets. year. I can think of 8 waterfalls we’ve – there are some lovely hidden spots. seen in the 9 years we’ve been here; No time to pack a picnic? Grab a bite Tiffany Falls, Albion Falls, Ball’s Falls, 3 Go Jump in the lake – we have a from Hutchs and enjoy the roller rink Devil’s Punchbowl, Tews Falls, Smokey huge beach, yes we do and it’s pretty near Williams cafe! Hollow, Chedoke Falls, and Washboard great if you can get over the view of the giant pylons. Sure the Falls. Beautiful 7 Visit the inlet under the Burlington The tour started with much levity water is cold but you can and inspiration- canal lift bridge. As well as the giant for such a grey, dreary walk through wade in on a hot day & toss al as these won- cargo ships passing through, an incredi- Hamilton Cemetery. a beach ball or Frisbee. I ders are, may I bly diverse amount of ducks and swans “Hey Batman, I’m Robin!” were also recommend like to bring an umbrella seem to hang out here. some of the first words spoken you learn to as shade is fairly scarce; if you’re not sporty you by our tour guide Robin McKee, ID poison ivy Rainy day you say? Go to the beau- can listen to an audiobook 8 founder and organizer of ‘Stories in (there is plenty tiful new Gage Park Greenhouse with from the library or bring a the Stones’ walking tours. He was beside trails all a book. Free and fabulous. (check for sketchbook if you need to speaking to a small boy who had over Ontario) & opening hours online) ‘unplug’. shown up with his dad and sister bring a bag and wearing a Batman hoodie. gloves to pre- Camp in your own backyard – set Ride around to Princess 9 I wondered how many times he was serve the pris- 4 up a tent or improvise your own home- Point on your bike or rent a actually able to use that line in his tine beauty by made version, throw in loads of pillows SoBi / take the bus. Picnic, eighteen years of running these free picking up any to create a ‘sultans tent’ with all the or go for a hike (watch for tours. I would wonder many things broken glass or luxuries of home nearby. Don’t forget Poison Ivy again) and try in the next two hours as I listened garbage you encounter along the way. to add some fun snacks and a cooler of to positively ID a native plant, shrub or to Robin’s recounting of the many As I grumblingly wonder why anyone beverages. would litter when specifically coming tree. historical firsts that lay beneath our feet as we walked across the to see something so beautiful, I try to Napped in the heat of the after- Walk the boardwalks & bridges over 10 grounds of the Hamilton Cemetery comfort myself with the fact that we’re 5 noon and now you’re wide awake? the marsh and hike the trails to enjoy which was founded when Burling- ensuring more plastic doesn’t harm ani- The waterfront trail near Van Wagners, the incredible abundance of life where ton Heights Cemetery, the Christ mals or enter our lakes and oceans. Hutch’s on the Beach or Confederation water meets land. The Royal Botanical Church Grounds and the Church of park is well lit and lovely for an evening Gardens ‘Cherry Hill Gate’ is beautiful Ascension Grounds amalgamated. 2 Paddle Cootes Paradise. This is stroll or walk right along the beach. & only charges for parking. a big personal goal missing from my STORY CONTINUED ON PAGE 9 Brusey Awnings / Just a shade better Jason Farr Councillor, Ward 2 - Downtown ALWAYS ENGAGING 71 Main Street West Between You And The Sun Since 1929! Hamilton, ON L8P 4Y5 Telephone: 905-546-2711 497 Hughson Street North, Hamilton Fax: 905-546-2535 E-mail: [email protected] L8L 4N8 www.jasonfarr.com 905Ask-522 for-5625/905 Rick Brusey-522-5881 905-522-5625 20 Hughson St. S., Suite 200, Hamilton, Ontario L8N 2A1 905-544-9644 | [email protected] PAGE 2 | JULY 2019 | THE BREEZES New Hamilton-Oshawa Port 130 children each year. The cost of Authority Creates a Bigger Role transportation can be a barrier for for Marine Transportation in many families and the fact that City- Southern Ontario Kidz provides free transportation to its programs has been one of the keys Effective June 18, 2019 The Ham- to its success. ilton and Oshawa Port Authorities will be amalgamated, creating the Since CityKidz established its current new Hamilton-Oshawa Port Au- location on the port lands in 2011, thority. The new Port Authority will HPA has contributed almost $600K book-end the Greater-Toronto Ham- in the form of charitable donations ilton Area giving marine shipping a or subsidized rent. “It’s important more prominent role in the region’s to us to give back to the communi- goods-movement transportation mix. ties we’re a part of,” said HPA CEO The Hamilton-Oshawa Port Authori- Ian Hamilton. “We are continually ty will continue to be headquartered inspired by the work of CityKidz, at 605 James Street North. and its positive impact on Hamilton neighbourhoods.” Hamilton Port Authority Supports CityKidz with $15,000 Donation HPA is proud to affirm its continued support of community partner and port tenant, CityKidz. HPA will be “SIPPING BY THE BAY” lies to develop the skills and assets donating $15,000 to CityKidz over necessary to make positive and long the next three years, providing much LIFTING COMMUNITY lasting life changes enabling them to needed sustainable funding to cover become fully contributing members of transportation costs. SINCE 1949 the community. Their work involves diverse and risk groups that includes The donation will ensure that CityKi- SUBMITTED BY KEN HIRTER children, youth, young adults, seniors dz will be able to bus approximately and families. On Friday June the 7th 2019 I had the pleasure to take in the “SIPPING BY For more information or to donate THE BAY” held at the Macassa Bay please check out their website: @ THE INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF THE NORTH END Yacht Club on a beautiful pre sum- johnhoward.on.ca mer evening. This fundraising event The 75th anniversary CELEBRA- SUBMITTED BY BRAIN ROULSTON for the John Howard Society Burl- TION was a wonderful evening filledIndustry in Hamilton experienced rel- workers manufacturing both horse- ington/Hamilton area celebrated the from the door prizes, silent auction, atively minor growth in its early years drawn equipment, then later tractor John Howard Societies 75th ANNI- delicious food and delightful music when Hamilton was still called ‘The drawn implements such as seed drills, VERSARY CELEBRATION by the HAMILTON YOUTH STEEL Head of the Lake’. A channel dredged hay mowers, hay binders, balers and Their MISSION STATEMENT: ORCHESTRA. Several speakers re- from Lake Ontario to Burlington Bay rakes. Combines destined for the counted the triumphs and the losses, (Hamilton Bay) in 1827 allowed for American mid-west were also man- “To provide and foster a safer and the youth achievements and success better marine transportation. Still, it ufactured here as well. During the healthier community through the pro- stories. wasn’t until 1895 when Hamilton be- war years the company manufactured vision of a continuum of community guns, tank components, and other war based services that are needs based, We send Cheers & Happy 75th An- came ‘The Electric City’, the first city in Canada to receive hydro electric related items. Times were good for In- consumer focused, and that provide niversary to the JOHN HOWARD ternational Harvester, company sales an opportunity for individuals to SOCIETY HAMILTON, BURLING- power, that industry finally took hold. hit a Billion dollars a year. Unfortu- achieve, maintain, and regain a bal- TON and surrounding area. As the It was known as Harvester City af- nately, it didn’t last as the company ance in their life within the Commu- sunset and a toast of CELEBRATION ter Deering Harvester later renamed was hit hard by strikes, overcapacity nity” and before the D.J. spun the tunes we International Harvester settled on 81 REMEMBERED them ALL that have hectares of land by the lake in 1902 and high interest rates. By the end of THE John Howard Society works survived and the love of their Com- between Wentworth and Sherman the century the company was sold to with risk individuals and is com- munity paying it forward. Cheers to Streets. It soon became the largest Tenneco Oil and Gas which owned mitted to providing a continuum of another 75 years and thanks Brenda agricultural manufacturer in the Brit- majority shares of J.I Case, another evidence based and impact driven Duke and the JOHN HOWARD SO- ish Empire.