1890s Hamilton

  For readers of the Hamilton Times issue of June 4, 1897, the following advertisement would surely have caught a lot of attention: “The greatest of all Jubilee year productions. Marvelous pyrotechnics and sonic effects. Hundreds of trained performers. An evening of continual surprises   and splendors impossible to describe. The Wonderful Lamarks, the funniest troupe of acrobats alive; Great Contortionists; the Acrobatic Hottentots; high class dancing, etc., etc. Nothing approaching it has been seen in this city before.         AT DUNDURN Park Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, June 8 th , 9 th and 10 th . General admission 25 cents.” 1 1 Hamilton Times. June 4, 1897. The month of June 1897 in Hamilton, as throughout the British Empire, would be filled with all sorts of patriotic entertainments. 1897 was Queen Victoria’s Jubilee year, celebrating the 60 th year of her reign. Dundurn Park would be the site of many of the June 1897 Jubilee entertainments. For the 25 cent