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Carnival King and Bay streets
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This picture shows a regiment from New York parading along James Street North. Early in the summer of 1889, Hamilton's Board of Trade proposed a massive summer carnival to celebrate and promote Hamilton's progress and its potential to become one of North America's most vibrant urban communities, the dates would be August 19-23. Every residence, every public building and business was brilliantly set off with evergreens, buntings, flags, flowers, and trophies of all kinds. One wondered how such a transformation could take place. Other carnivals were worthy of the Ambitious City, but this time, Hamilton took off her jacket, loosened the purse strings, spit on her civic hands, and overshadowed all previous attempts. Carnival week included two major street parades, open air musical concerts, sporting events, regattas on the bay, and fireworks displays. Newspaper reporters from across Canada and the United States came to Hamilton for the first time and their impressions were unanimously favourable, this summer carnival was an immense success.
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