page_title: Timeline of events in Hamilton, Ontario
section_title: 1910–1919
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of events in Hamilton, Ontario / 1910–1919
caption_attribution_description: Andrew Carnegie, American businessman and philanthropist.
context_page_description: Below is a timeline of events in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
context_section_description: 1910 – Steel Company of Canada (Stelco) is formed.
  1910 – Andrew Ross, local Hamilton businessman builds the Barton Street Arena; future home of NHL Hamilton Tigers.
  1910 – The Royal Hotel (later renamed the Royal Connaught Hotel) is constructed on King Street.
  1911 – Hamilton hosted its first Aviation Meet at Aviation Park, hastily created on the Arthur O'Heir Survey, adjacent to the Tuckett Farm and Burlington Bay.
  1911 – Hamilton Hydro sub-station built on Dundurn St. North, the building is now home to the 'Staircase Theatre'.
  1912 – Dofasco, (Dominion Steel Casting Company) established. In 1917 named Dominion Foundries and Steel, the company then merges with Hamilton Steel Wheel Company.
  1912 – National Steel Car is established.
  1912 – Hamilton is second only to Montreal in shipping. (4.5 miles of dockage)
  1912 – First ever Grey Cup victory by a football team from Hamilton (4th ever Grey Cup). The Hamilton Alerts defeat the Toronto Argonauts 11-to-4. Game was played in Hamilton at the A.A.A. Grounds.
  1912 – Jack Kent Cooke, born in Hamilton in 1912 – was a Canadian-American entrepreneur who became one of the most widely known executives in North American professional sports. He owned the Washington Redskins (NFL), the Los Angeles Lakers (NBA), and the Los Angeles Kings (NHL), and built The Forum in Inglewood, California.
  1912 – Dr. Alfred Pain of Hamilton drowns after the Titanic hits an iceberg. (14 April 1912).
  1913 – After receiving a grant from Andrew Carnegie of New York the city of Hamilton builds a brand new Library on the south side of Main Street West, across the street from the old Library. It is officially opened by the Lieutenant Governor [and Hamiltonian], Sir John Morison Gibson on May 5, 1913.
  1913 – The Rotary Club of Hamilton starts (June 23, 1913) 1:10pm at Young's Cafe 26 King William St. (aka. Listerblock).  Started by Bruce Carey, Russell T Kelly, Arthur Bell and Charlie McCallough.  Others that attended the lunch included Bill Peace, George C Coppley, Harry Russell and Bill Seymour
  1913 – Increased population and prosperity prompted a building boom. As a publicity stunt and raffle, workers and contractors built a house in a day in 1913 which was later featured in a Ripley's Believe It or Not cartoon.
  1913 – the Procter & Gamble Manufacturing Company (based in Cincinnati) purchased land in Hamilton. This event marks  beginning of company's operations outside the U.S.
  1914 – Sir John Strathearn Hendrie (1857–1923) becomes the Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario (1914–1919). from Hamilton.
  1914 – Construction starts on Procter & Gamble Hamilton plant, which cost $1 million and consisted of seven buildings: the Crisco building, the boiler house, the gas plant, the soap building, the hardening plant, the kettle and glycerin house, and the machine shop.
  1914 – Hamilton is connected to Toronto by the first concrete highway built in Canada, Highway 2
  1915 – Procter & Gamble officially opens Hamilton plant, employing 75 workers who made six different products.
  1915 – Herkimer Apartments, on the corner of Bay Street South and Herkimer Street, was the first Hamilton apartment installed with an elevator, which ran from the basement to the fifth floor. Opened in July 1915.
  1916 – The Royal Connaught Hotel opened. (Construction of it started in 1914).
  1917 – Gage Park opens up.
  1919 – Hoover Suction Sweeper Company builds a plant in Hamilton.
  1919 – Firestone Tire and Rubber Company of Canada is established.
  1919 – Bay Street, derives its name from its proximity to Hamilton Harbour, which was once Burlington Bay. In 1919, a Federal Order-In-Council changed the name of Burlington Bay to Hamilton Harbour.
  1919 – Civic Stadium built.
  1919 – Glendale Golf & Country Club opened in Hamilton's East End
caption: Andrew Carnegie, 1913.
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