1897 - T.H.&B. versus the Hamilton and Milton Toll Road Company
“The T.H. & B. road applied for permission to be relieved from the order directing it to be responsible for the crossings over the roads of the Hamilton & Milton Road Company and asking that the city of Hamilton and the county of Wentworth should bear all expenses in connection with the matter. Mr. Waddell strongly proposed on behalf of the road company against this concession, Mr. Carscallen appearing for the railway company. Hamilton Times. January 06, 1897. The year 1897 had barely begun when the matter of getting traffic across the Desjardins Canal became a source of conflicting agendas among a variety of vested interests. The Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway had been built through the City of Hamilton in 1895, notably with the construction of a long tunnel under Hunter Street West and the addition of a handsome station building on Hunter Street East, just east of James street. It had, of course, always been the intention to conn...