Resources
Municipal Candidate Financial Statements (2000-2022)
This is a collection of financial statements (completed forms) of municipal candidates in the 2014 and 2018 elections. This includes…
Map of Development Sites in Ward 2
Below is a map of active development sites in Ward 2. The map is structured by neighbourhood (the coloured layers…
Map of Light Rail Transit and City Property
Now that Hamilton’s Light Rail Transit (LRT) project has been approved, there are discussions about the development of housing along…
Map of Underutilized Space within the City of Hamilton’s Urban Boundary
The purpose of the project is to illustrate how much land might be available for gentle density and infill projects…
Chedoke Creek Contamination (2014-2019)
On January 29, 2014 a sewer gate connected to the King Street / Main Street Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) tank…
City Council Fail Lists
In 2020, Ryan Moran began tracking lists, by year, of City Council’s failures. He called them “Council Fail Lists” and…
Map of Water Fountains
This is a combined map of all of the City of Hamilton’s drinking fountains (60) and water bottle filling stations…
Cycling Master Plans (1973-2018)
What’s now called the City of Hamilton’s Cycling Master Plan started, as far as we can tell, in 1992 with…
Faded Hamilton
In early 2021, Matt Grande began posting videos of interesting spots in the City of Hamilton that included detailed histories,…
The Rambling Hamiltonian
In late 2020, The Rambling Hamiltonian, also known as @HamiltonRambler on Twitter, began posting reviews of biking infrastructure in the…
Same but Different Hamilton
The series will showcase downtown locations that have building uses vastly different from those that previous occupied the same space.
City of Hamilton’s Articles of Incorporation (1846)
The North End Urban Renewal Scheme was written in June 1968 (with an Addendum produced in August 1969) by Murray…
Map of Cycling Infrastructure
Below is a map of active development sites in Ward 2. The map is structured by neighbourhood (the coloured layers…
Ward 2 Municipal Election Results (1960-2018)
This list is a snapshot of the winners of elections in Hamilton’s Ward 1, 2, and 3 from 1960 to…
Then and Now Hamilton
“Our mission here is to raise awareness, provide a diversity of voice, and to spark dialogue about issues affecting our…
Steel Cut Queer (2013-2015)
“Our mission here is to raise awareness, provide a diversity of voice, and to spark dialogue about issues affecting our…
Just Recovery Hamilton
The Hamilton Police Service first started making its budgets public available through its website in 2020. The budgets in the…
Hamilton Police Services Boards (1991-2024)
This list is a snapshot of members of the both of Hamilton’s police services boards for the past 30 years,…
Hamilton Police Service Operating Budgets (2016-2021)
The Hamilton Police Service first started making its budgets public available through its website in 2020. The budgets in the…
The Anvil (2015-2019)
“Our mission here is to raise awareness, provide a diversity of voice, and to spark dialogue about issues affecting our…
Hamilton Police Service Annual Reports (2001-2015, 2019)
The Hamilton Police Service published annual reports from 2001 to 2015 and again in 2019.
North End Urban Renewal Scheme
The North End Urban Renewal Scheme was written in June 1968 (with an Addendum produced in August 1969) by Murray…
Hamilton Historical Board (HHB)
This archive is meant to host the various publications of the Hamilton Historical Board (HHB). At present that includes some…
Map of Downtown Ward Boundaries (1833-2018)
The map below has been designed to give you a fairly accurate sense of how ward boundaries in downtown Hamilton…
City of Hamilton Agencies, Boards, and Committees
This list has been scraped from the City of Hamilton’s website and the sole purpose of hosting it here is…