Burlington Street (Hamilton, Ontario)
On October 14, 2015, city council approved the renaming of the upper portion of Burlington Street from 165 meters east of Ottawa St to the QEW to Nikola Tesla Boulevard.
The signage along the QEW for Burlington Street was eventually replaced between October 22–23, 2016, to reflect the name change.
In the 1950s, the Canadian head offices of Stelco, Dofasco, Firestone, International Harvester, Procter & Gamble and Westinghouse were situated on or close to Burlington Street.
This station was built using Nikola Tesla's invention of the Alternating Current system of generators, transformers and motors.
It was a return home for Otis, which had built the 350,000-square-foot (33,000 m2) facility for wartime production of anti-aircraft guns and other military equipment.
[3] Originally known as Deering Harvester, the company plant sprawled along the Hamilton waterfront and claimed to be the "largest agricultural implement works in the British Empire."
The reasons the company cited for its selection of Hamilton were as follows: it had waterside property that enabled the firm to control its own docks, its proximity to the steel industry, railway connections and the Cataract Power Company supplied them with cheap energy.
[3] By 1915, Procter & Gamble officially opens Hamilton plant, employing 75 workers who made six different products.
[3] On August 18, 1948, surrounded by more than 400 employees and a battery of reporters, the first vehicle, a blue Champion four-door sedan, rolls off the Studebaker assembly line.
[7] The company was located in the former Otis-Fenson military weapons factory off Burlington Street East, which was built in 1941.
[8] It was terrible news for the 700 workers who had formed a true family at the company, known for its employee parties and day trips.
This ranks Hamilton as the busiest of all the ports of Canada's great lakes and 28% of all movements on the St. Lawrence Seaway System.
The oddest new arrival was windmill blades (some more than 80 feet (24 m) long) destined for wind farms in southern Ontario.
[10] Lakeport Brewing Company is based in Hamilton and focused on producing value-priced quality beer for the Ontario take-home market.
[3] On Monday May 8, Labatt Brewing Company made it official and announced that Lakeport, who they purchased earlier in the year, (March 29, 2007), for $200-million for rights to the income trust, which controlled the plant, will continue to operate in the City of Hamilton.
The operations employees continue to brew Lakeport in Hamilton but the marketing and sales jobs are now centralized at Labatt's head offices.
The Hamilton plant serves food manufacturers, the biodiesel industry and farmers in Ontario and Quebec.
[20] National Steel Car won a contract in January 2007 for 1,200 custom-made railcars for TransLoad America, a New Jersey–based waste transport firm.
[21] Columbian Chemicals Ltd. on 755 Parkdale Avenue North, are manufacturers of carbon black - an agent used to reinforce and extend the life of products made with rubber, giving it durability and strength.
