The Hamilton Spectator, founded in 1846 as The Hamilton Spectator and Journal of Commerce, is a newspaper published each day but Sunday in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. 1846 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Motto: Together Aspire - Together Achieve Area: 1,117. ...
The paper was sold to Robert Southam (later Southam Newspapers) in 1877. After the sale of Southam newspapers to Conrad Black in 1998, Black sold the paper to the Sun Media newspapers in 1998, who subsequently sold it to the Torstar group of newspapers in 1999. Southam Newspapers is a Canadian newspaper chain owned by CanWest. ... 1877 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... The Right Honourable Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, PC, OC (born August 25, 1944, in Montreal, Quebec), is a British biographer, financier and newspaper magnate. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII in Roman) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Sun Media Corporation is the owner of several widely read Canadian tabloid newspapers. ... Torstar Corporation TSX: TS.NV.B-T is an independently owned Canadian publishing company. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...
Hamilton is located on the western end of the Niagara Peninsula and Lake Ontario, and as such is sometimes known as Head of the Lake (not to be confused with Lakehead).
In mid-2001, 14.2 % of the resident population in Hamilton were of retirement age (65 and over for males and females) compared with 13.2 % in Canada, therefore, the average age is 37.8 years of age comparing to 37.6 years of age for all of Canada.
Hamilton was incorporated as a police village in 1833 and as a city in 1846.
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