1. Start at Princess Legend Point in Cootes Walking Path Paradise on the Open Creek

bridge Bayfront Park Covered Creek Dundurn Park

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St. Joseph's Beddoe Drive Radial Park Hospital 8. At the top of the Dundurn Beulah Park Hyde Park Avenue Chedoke Avenue At the Chedoke Radial Trail, follow the Steps, straight on Garth, 7. Bruce Side Trail blaze to the west. The right on Scenic Drive. trail leads up to a view of the intake of the Right on Balfour Dr. for a Chedoke Storm Drain, below, and of Lower view through the trees of Southam Park , upstream. Auch Scenic Drive mar Road Chedoke House. Garth Street Chedoke Falls

T. Melville Bailey Denlow Park Ave

Mohawk Residence Park

Colquhoun Park West 31st Street Splashpad At the NW corner of Upper Mountview Park 10. Mountain Crest Avenue James and Mohawk Rd.

West 23rd Street Holbrook Park Michael Hess camped in 1788, on a small hill

Bendamere Avenue overlooking a creek as it 9. From the outlook on Scenic Dr. at the top of crossed the parking lot of the Canadian Tire Store. Chedoke Falls, continue south across the Buchanan Park park to West 23rd St; left on Bendamere South Bend Rd W Ave., through Buchanan Park to South Bend West 4th Street

Rd W; right on West 5th St; left on Richwill; Richwill Rd right on Upper James St. to Mohawk Rd. 11. From the low-lying area Richwill Park beside the school, a swale West 5th Street continues southward

Kings Mead Park Fonthill Park Norwood Park Playground behind the houses on Fonthill Park

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This walk follows in the footsteps of the family story of Michael Hess and his 10-year-old son, Peter, as they follow Chedoke Creek from its mouth to its source on the Mountain in 1788, when Head-of-the- Lake (Hamilton) was just beginning to attract settlers of European descent. At the creek’s spring they started Spring Farm, returning the next year with the rest of their family. 1 Start at Princess Point in . The Waterfront Trail bridge crosses over the mouth of Chedoke Creek. South along Macklin St., or follow the path beside the creek. Left on Glen Rd. The outfall of the creek culvert under Highway 403 (built 1963, as Chedoke Expressway) is visible at the bottom of the hill. Right on Tope Cres.; up Carling St; left on Macklin; left on 2 Main St; left on Longwood Rd. 3 Chedoke Creek is visible from the Longwood Rd bridge over the 403, running in a concrete channel. 4 In the distance, between McMaster Innovation Park and the Spectator building, a 200 metre stretch of Chedoke Creek in its original path is still running in an area inaccessible to the public. Right into the parking lot across from McMaster Innovation Park, to see the outfall of the Chedoke Creek Storm Drain (1963). The creek that joins Chedoke, to the right of the storm drain outfall, is 5 made up of the five other creeks in the Chedoke Watershed that fall over the escarpment. Follow Longwood Rd, south; left on Aberdeen Ave.; right on Studholme; left onto the path that crosses through Chedoke Civic Golf Course (opened 1896, as Hamilton Golf and Country Club).

Where the path meets Glenside Ave., turn right onto the path that enters the woods. Chedoke Creek runs in its original path behind the houses on Chedoke Avenue, as far as the Chedoke Radial Trail 6 (opened 1907, as Hamilton Brantford Electric Railway). At the Chedoke Radial Trail, follow the Bruce Side Trail blaze to the west. The trail leads up to a view of the intake of the Chedoke Storm Drain, below, and of Lower Chedoke Falls, upstream. 7 You are looking into the Chedoke Creek Gorge. There is a gorge .5 km upstream to Chedoke Falls, which is the only section of the creek that has not been altered over the past two hundred years. Follow the Radial Trail west to the Chedoke Steps (opposite the Clubhouse) and turn left (east) on Scenic Drive to the top of Chedoke Falls; OR follow the Radial Trail east to the Dundurn Steps.

At the top of the Dundurn Steps, straight on Garth, right on Scenic Drive. Right on Balfour Dr. for a view through the trees of Chedoke House (1834; source of the name “Chedoke”), which stands 8 between Balfour and the creek gorge. Scenic Dr. to Chedoke Falls, the top edge of which is visible over the bridge rail as the creek exits the storm drain under the road across from Colquhoun Park, and falls into the gorge. South across 9 the park, continue along West 23rd St; left on Bendamere Ave., through Buchanan Park to South Bend Rd W; right on West 5th St; left on Richwill; right on Upper James St. to Mohawk Rd. At the NW corner of Upper James and Mohawk Rd. (Tony’s no-frills), Michael Hess camped in 1788, on a small hill overlooking a creek as it crossed the parking lot of the Canadian Tire Store, across 10 the street. In the Hess family story, Michael and his son Peter followed the creek from mouth to source. In the factual story (The Hess Family of Barton, by John R. Gallagher, at Hamilton Central Library), Michael and the heads of four other families, Aaron Kribs, William and Jacob Rymal, and Henry Smith travelled to this spot from Pennsylvania (from Niagara following the Mohawk Trail, or the trail that became Upper James, up the escarpment). They scouted the area for several days, chose locations for their new farms, then returned to Pennsylvania for their families. A migration of fifty people, plus horses, oxen, geese and chickens. The block bounded by Upper James, Mohawk, West 5th and the Linc is the original acreage of Spring Farm. SE corner was the headquarters of the British Army during the , when the intersection was officially known as The Crossing, Barton Heights.

Upper James south from Mohawk Rd; right on Lotus Ave; left on Caledon Ave.. The low-lying area to the right continues southward behind the houses between Caledon and Hawkridge Ave. This is 11 the route of the creek. Right on Jameston Ave. No one knows exactly where Chedoke Creek spring is located, or if there still is a single source, so for convenience sake we are placing it halfway along Jameston Ave., at 12 the lowest point in the dip between Upper James and West 5th St., in the middle of Spring Farm.

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