Hamilton 2025 – Day 6

A big storm did arrive last night, and lowered the temperature a bit, but did not clear out the humidity. We left a little later this morning, and kept it local.

On our way to visit New Hope Community Bikes, we passed by Hamilton’s Children’s Museum located in Gage Park. It is undergoing an extensive renovation, and will re-open later this year.

New Hope is a learning hub for building and repairing bikes, offering safe cycling education, providing access to affordable transportation, and fostering a rich and inclusive cycling community. One can also purchase bikes and cycling related items, and pay for repairs. This helps fund charitable work.

Parked outside was what appeared to be a regular bike turned into a long-tail bike with an add-on part.

Inside they had some interesting bikes.

It was a large well organized space.

There are many attractive old high school buildings in the city.

We rode around the Delta neighbourhood on the east side of Gage Park to pick up Squadrathinos and visit Mark’s other daughter and family.

I’ve noticed quite a few small apartment buildings, often mixed in with single family homes. From Historical Hamilton : “It was during the early 1910s that the apartment house made its first appearance in Hamilton as a specialized building type. The Pasadena is significant as one of the early and well-designed examples of a building type that by the 1920s had proliferated throughout the city.”

This nicely renovated home is across the street from the brickyard I posted a picture of on our Escarpment Trail day.  We spotted it from the trail. It reads the Hamilton Pressed Brick Co above the front door.

Hamilton Stadium was built for the 2015 Pan Am games, and is currently the home of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

The Cannon and Sherman intersection is a bit confusing at first glance as the painted bikes lanes transition to a bidirectional protected cycle track, but the green paint helps considerably.

The 541 Eatery and Exchange is a non-profit pay-it-forward café working to help our neighbours overcome the impacts of isolation, poverty, and injustice by cultivating a community of mutuality in our neighbourhood. We had delicious iced lattes and chocolate chip cookies, and bought some buttons to pay it forward.

This Piper Apache CF-KFX was used to train many pilots at the Toronto Island Airport. It was discovered by Don MacVicar in May 2018 in a farmer’s field, located off of Hwy #6 in Hamilton. Don connected with The Ken Gamble who were happy to donate the plane with the hope to inspire the youth to explore. It was renovated by Mohawk College Aviation students, and sits in the grounds of the Eva Rothwell Centre, which partners with families living in poverty, empowering them to become self-sufficient and fulfill their desired potential. There is also a rail car used as a reading room and study space for children who use the community hub. 

We decided to ask Mark to meet us for lunch at Hutch’s, as we wanted to try the fish tacos. We used Victoria Street on the way there which has protected cycle tracks.

The fish tacos were excellent.

Bayfront Park is on the loop we did with Alina on Wednesday and is a good starting place if you are driving your bike to Hamilton at or had a large free parking lot, bathrooms, and provides easy access to the waterfront trail.

It is nice to see the curb protection on Cannon being upgraded with permanent curbs and separate light cycles for bikes and cars. 

We picked up a few groceries to replace what we’ve used, then relaxed for the rest of the afternoon to allow rush hour to pass before driving home.

It was wonderful to be able to spend another week exploring Hamilton. 

One of our cats came to inspect my suitcase when I arrived home.