Conference kaosws::canada

    Not a native, but I can admit to working out of the HPO - Hamilton
    DEC office (located in Burlington?!?!) for two years, and actually
    living in Burlington for 14 months.
    
    Biggest news (industrial) is that Dofasco has brought its
    continuous-caster (replete with 100s of $Ms of DEC equipment) online
    finally. Project only slightly behind schedule, awaiting the next
    major DEC hardware announcement so that they can buy one of
    whatever-it-is.
    
    Desmond.

    Well, I hate to admit it but I was born in Hamilton and grew up in
    Grimsby.  Fortunately, I now work in Toronto, a fine town.  Are you
    still interested in the Hammer?   One piece of information I can give
    is that there is now two skyway bridges and the hamilton harbour near
    the steel companies is being filled in faster than you can blink. They
    finally built a proper hockey arena downtown minus a hockey team.  Am I
    getting you interested??
    
    Cheers, Paul

    I was born and raised in Hamilton. I spent the first part of my life on
    Tisdale ave. (between Victoria and Wentworth) I went to Wentworth
    Street Public School. Later my family and by extension, myself, moved
    to Cannon St., near Gage ave. Gage Park was a large influence on my
    life. I went to Prince of Wales school next and then high school at
    Scott Park Secondary. I swam with the Hamilton Wentworth Aquatic Club.
    I still like Hamilton very much and walk around the whole city every
    time I have an extended stay there. 
    
    Gotta go will continue later.
    
    chris, from hamilton.

    Well, I was born there (St. Joe's) I lived in Saltfleet township (later
    amalgamated into Stoney Creek) the east property line of our farm was
    also the Hamilton city limits. I went to kindergarden at Mount Albion
    school the last year that the original one room schoolhouse was still
    part of the building. I did my time in the steel mills (two co-op
    workterms at Dofasco). We moved down the peninsula to Grimsby when I
    was 9. I still occasionally go back to the old neighbourhood as my
    Grandmother (92 going on 39) still lives there (less than a mile from
    where she was born, across the street from where my grandfather was
    born. 

    I made a point of not working in the steel mills. I always thought that
    it was my Dad's job that made him so depressed and eventually an
    alcoholic. I writhed every time he came home at precisely 1532 every
    day. Same thing day in day out. I survived the steel mills but the chip
    left on my shoulder looms large.

    
    I have, in no way, had anything to do with Hamilton.
    
    Just thought I'd say.
    

       
       My former companion, Colleen Horner, was born and reared in
       Hamilton.  Her father, Hugh, had the unusual middle name `Urchin'.
       Really, he did.
       
       Colleen claimed to haved dated Wayne Rivers when he played for
       the Hamilton Red Wings; I later followed Wayne undistinguished
       career in Boston as he went on to play several seasons for the
       perenially last-place Bruins.
       
       I have also seen the escarpment.
       
       On the whole, that's really quite a bit -- more than one would
       ordinarily want, in many ways -- to have to do w/Hamilton.
       
       --Mr Topaz

    Like Norm, I was born in St. Joes, but call Dundas my birthplace!
    
    I lived in Dundas until I was 9, when we moved up onto the escarpment
    near Millgrove.  Went to Dundas District High School and on to the
    University of Waterloo.
    
    After a brief stint in Kitchener, where my wife and I were married, we
    moved to Sarnia!
    
    -doug

    I've worked in Hamilton. Not as nice as Sarnia...

    Hamilton??!!
    
    What street's it on?  :*)
    
    Korff

    I think Linda Hamilton is pretty. Does that make me a Hamiltonian?

    
    It depends; how do you feel about George Hamilton?
    
    Please respond without wasting disk space, network bandwidth, CPU
    cycles, or the time of your fellow noters.
    

    Is that George Hamilton IV, the country crooner who recorded "Canadian
    Pacific," or that other guy, the tanned 2nd-rate actor/showbiz figure?
    
    -Stephen

    
    Watch it. It's just a clever trick so he can post his Statistics Canada
    survey on George Hamilton....
    

    
    That reminds me...
    

    Re: .11
    
    c/Linda Hamilton/Sheila Copps/ and you're much closer. 
    

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    Bluuuuuuuuuurgh!

    By the way, Sheila Copps is not my baby.

    Hamilton: that was a mathematician from Scotland (father of the
    quaternions - an extension of the complex set,  and of the Hamiltonian,
    - a formulation of the least-effort principle named after him, I think).
    He was also Nelson's lover (an English sailor).

    It hink that's the "Hambletonian," and it's not a "formulation of the
    least-effort principle," but a harness race.
    
    -Stephen 

    >>He was also Nelson's lover (an English sailor).
    
    Close, very close...but completely wrong.
    
    Nelson was an English admiral in the Royal Navy.  His mistress was Lady
    Hamilton.

    Yabbut that's when he was dressed up like Lady Hamilton.

    Now this is getting silly. What is this the Sarnia note?