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The Grand Durand – Hamilton’s Mansions

  Opening Supercrawl Weekend September 14th and 15th at HIStory & HERitage Museum,  Graham Crawford’s latest multi-media production. This multi media show is all about the magnificent enormous mansions  located in Hamilton’s historic Durand neighbourhood on streets that include  Ravenscliffe, Aberdeen, Turner, Bay South and more.  See Paul Wilson’s CBC article here for much more…

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History vs Highrises – the battle of Durand by Paul Wilson

Durand — James to Queen, Main to the Escarpment — is Hamilton’s densest neighbourhood. City Hall is here. And CHCH, in the old Southam house. There are the stone shops that line James South. And corner stores. And Central School, the first proper grade school in English Canada. But mostly, Durand is a place to..

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