Sherman Avenue (Hamilton, Ontario)

Sherman Avenue is a collector road in the lower portion of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

It begins at the Niagara Escarpment ('The Mountain') just south of Cumberland Avenue and is a one-way street bisecting the industrialized northern neighbourhoods of the city.

It ends at Ship Street — the site of Steel Company of Canada (Stelco).Upper Sherman Avenue is located on the top of escarpment, running roughly from North to South, starting from Concession Street to Rymal Road.

Beginning at Crockett Street, it runs downhill and north, parallel to Upper Sherman.

It passes under Concession Street and Mountain Park Avenue, coming to an end at a tee-intersection with the Sherman Access.

The west leg (originally known as Mountain Boulevard)[3] proceeds downhill, and makes a sharp hairpin turn in the area of the Jolley Cut and the Claremont Access.

[16] On July 15, 1946, after a meeting at the Playhouse Theatre, on Sherman Avenue North, Local 1005 members of the United Steelworkers of America at Stelco marched to the plant gates to start the famous strike of 1946.

It forced employers to accept collective bargaining and helped start a mass trade union movement in Canada.