User:Nhl4hamilton/Mysterious
This will be the page where I will list the "Mysterious" things about Hamilton, Ontario
that I have found with all my work and research of the city
for the wikipedia articles.
Burial grounds/ graves
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(1) George Hamilton, our city's founder, passed away on February 20, 1836. His body was buried at the family burial plot on the family's own farm. It is now part of Mountain Side Park. The monument (tombstone) at the Hamilton cemetery wasn't put there until 1894. (George Hamilton's body is not buried at the Hamilton cemetery).[1][2]
(2) Sir Allan Napier MacNab, the only Canadian Prime Minister that Hamilton has ever produced, was originally buried in 1862 on the Dundurn Park grounds between Dundurn Castle and Castle Dean on the corner of Locke Street and Tecumseh Street. In 1909 his body was removed and taken to Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, West Hamilton. No stone marks his grave.[1]
(3) Rocco Perri was seen for the last time in Hamilton, Ontario on 23 April 1944. His body has never been found. Speculation has it he was murdered, possibly by being put in a barrel filled with cement and dumped into the Burlington Bay. As one Royal Canadian Mounted Police concluded in a 1954 interview, "We won't find his body until the Bay dries up." Although he was the most significant mob figure in Canadian history, few people outside the Hamilton area have heard of Rocco Perri, as he has been overshadowed by his American counterparts. As Al Capone said when asked if he knew Rocco Perri, "I don't even know what street Canada is on." [3]
Buildings/ structures
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(1) The "Mystery building" at Dundurn Park, just west of Dundurn Castle, no one really knows for sure what purpose it was built. Some historians feel it may have been a theatre, a laundry, a boat-house, an office or a chapel for Sir Allan's Roman Catholic wife. Urban legend has it that many under ground tunnels were built leading from the Castle to various parts of the estate and one of the entrance ways was through the "Mystery building."[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Watson, Milton (1938). Saga of a City. The Hamilton Spectator.
- ^ Bailey, Thomas Melville (1981). Dictionary of Hamilton Biography (Vol I, 1791-1875). W.L. Griffin Ltd. p. 143.
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