When we were younger, my group of friends had a tradition at the Winking Judge. We would drink enough pints so that one of us would get brave enough to run up the creaky stairs to the off-limits third…
“Foully Done in Death”: The 1909 Murder of Ethel Kinrade
One-hundred-and-nine years ago this week, 25-year-old Ethel Caroline Kinrade was murdered in her family’s elegant Herkimer Street home. Her younger sister, Florence, a church soloist and an aspiring v…
Beasley House Bistro
On the edge of the popular Locke Street South neighbourhood is the restaurant that has been a mainstay on the street for over 30 years; Beasley House Bistro. As the first building on Locke street, the…
33 Bowen Opens to the Public
33 Bowen, another venture of the Unique Restaurant Group (behind The Powerhouse, The Vicar’s Vice, Southcote 53, Pluckers, The Dickens, Don Cherry’s Bar and Grill, The Augusta House and Pheasant Pluck…
Crawford Lake
With that negative 20 weather creeping in and the Holiday season over, it can be extremely alluring to cozy up by the fire with a cuppa tea and hibernate for the rest of the winter. But when a local c…
Bennett’s Apples & Cider
For many, a visit to Bennett’s Apples & Cider may mark the beginning to fall. To others, what comes to mind may just be that delicious apple cider in the iconic jug. Whatever comes to your mind wh…
Best of Hutton & Souter
The architecture firm of Gordon J. Hutton & William R. Souter came about because of Souter’s work with Mills & Hutton from 1910-1914. During those years Souter was a junior assistant in charge…
Auchmar Manor House
For nearly 165 years, Auchmar — a pre-Confederation gothic manor — has sat perched upon the Hamilton Mountain, built at a time before Mohawk College and big-box stores populated the neighbourhood. Con…
Top 10 James Balfour buildings in Hamilton
James Balfour was born in Hamilton on December 24th, 1854 and apprenticed in Scotland at Peddie & Kinnear. He opened his own office upon arrival back to Hamilton in 1873 and quickly became a proli…