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  • The Hamilton Memory Project is a series of initiatives by The Hamilton Spectator to collect stories and visual materials for use on the web and in a special newspaper section that will be published June 10 to commemorate the 160th birthday of the city and the newspaper. This blog is a place to meet and talk about local history and nostalgia. We encourage readers to tell their vignettes about the unique experience of living in Hamilton and to contribute to discussions about Hamilton history.

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Photographs of memories

This year is the 60th anniversary of the 1946 Stelco strike. And I've been goingStrike_1 through old files and picture collections to put together a bit of a story. I was   surprised by how few Stelco strike photos there are. The Spec library only has about a half dozen. And Special Collections at the libary has about the same.
To help make up for the shortfall, it would be nice to bring to light amateur photos that were taken at the time. I wonder, too,  whether anyone snapped a picture of Pete Seeger when he came out to show his support on the line  in 1946.

Mark

February 27, 2006 in Politics | | Comments (8) | TrackBack (0)