page_title: Timeline of events in Hamilton, Ontario
section_title: 1890–1899
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of events in Hamilton, Ontario / 1890–1899
context_page_description: Below is a timeline of events in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
context_section_description: 1890 – First organized hockey game held in Hamilton; Bank of Hamilton vs. Knox, Morgan. (this is the earliest reference to an organized hockey game being played in Hamilton.)
  1890 – Hamilton's first public library opens up on Main Street West. Officially opened up by Lord and Lady Aberdeen on September 16, 1890.
  1890 – First bowling alley in the city opens at back of the J.W. MacDonald Tobacco shop, (66 James Street North).
  1892 – June 29, 1892, is the date the first electric streetcar was operated in Hamilton. The first two electric routes were King Street East and James Street North. Street cars continued running on Hamilton streets until 6 April 1951.
  1892 –  The Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway began operations.
  1892 – The Hamilton Street Railway (HSR) converted to electrically powered vehicles in 1892.
  1892 – James Street incline railway opens up June 11 (1892–1932).
  1893 – Hamilton's first large department store opens: the Right House (King Street).
  1893 – The Sir John A. Macdonald statue arrives in Hamilton from London, England on 30 October 1893. Official dedication of the statue took place 1 November 1893. Located at the intersection of King and Hughson Streets. Prime Minister Sir John Thompson in attendance.
  1893 – Hamilton Electric Light Co. electrify the street railway.
  1894 – Harvey Park was named after Colonel John Harvey, a British officer during the War of 1812. The name was accepted by Hamilton City Council 11 June 1894. (situated just west of Dundurn Park).
  1894 – Hamilton Herald newspaper and cigar store owner Billy Carroll established the Around the Bay Road Race. Although it is not a proper marathon, it is the longest continuously held long-distance foot race in North America.
  1895 – Wentworth incline railway begins operation in August 1895. (1895–1936)
  1895 – The TH&B Railway came into Hamilton in 1895. A railway tunnel was then constructed from Queen to Park Street to cut down on the noise, pollution and disruption for the wealthy families who lived South of Jackson Street in the Durand neighbourhood.
  1896 – Cataract Power Company of Hamilton was incorporated, later becoming the Dominion Power and Transmission Company acquires  water privilege at Decew Falls.  Nikola Tesla (the inventor of the AC Polyphase system of generators, transformers and motors) consulted about the plans to built a power generating station in St Catharines at Decew Falls and to send to power to Hamilton.  Tesla approved the plans.
  1896 – Sir John Morison Gibson forms The Dominion Power and Transmission Company, that brought hydroelectric power, for the first time, to Hamilton, from their plant, at DeCrew Falls.
  1896 – Hamilton Radial Electric Railway extended across Beach Strip. (7 September 1896).
  1896 – Hamilton firefighters unionized.
  1897 – John M. Lyle, Hamilton architect in the late 19th century and early 20th century, designs New York Public Library Main Branch in 1897. (Later went on to design the Royal Alexandra Theatre, in Toronto (1907) and Union Station (Toronto) 1914–1921).
  1897 – Adelaide Hoodless, was a Canadian educational reformer who founded the international women's organization known as the Women's Institutes in 1897.
  1897 – Westinghouse established in Hamilton. first Westinghouse operation outside of the U.S.
  1898 – The "Five Johns", (John Patterson, John Dickenson (Canadian politician), John Morison Gibson, John Moodie Sr. and John Sutherland), form The Cataract Power Co. Ltd. introducing electric power to Hamilton in 1898. On August 25, 1898, power was sent twenty seven miles from DeCew Falls, St. Catharines, using water from the old Welland Canal. New industries, such as the forerunners of the Steel Co. of Canada (Stelco) and Canadian Westinghouse, were attracted here by the cheaper, more efficient power. One time this Company controlled hydro power from Brantford to St. Catharines, including the Hamilton Street Railway and the area's radial lines. Back then the city's nickname was "The Electric City."
  1898 – The first automobile driven in Canada was by textile manufacturer John Moodie in 1898; A
caption: The Hamilton Tigers circa 1906
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