This page is home to all the miscellaneous documents that are related to the transit companies in and around Hamilton. Letterheads, corporate forms, envelopes, etc.
(All photos © Tom Luton, except where noted)
Letterhead from 1880's HSR stationery
Blank specimen of 1893 $1000 HSR bond
Certificate of membership in AASEREA local 107 for James Lees, dated August 1, 1919.
HSR Trip Report form. No date, but from the streetcar era.
HSR Conductor's report (front and back) from the 1910s.
Matchbooks from the HSR Employee's Credit Union. No date, but the bus is an GM TDH-4517 from 1960.
H&D Preferred Stock Certificate, issued to John Riddell on July 17 1880. John Riddell was also the secretary of the H&D, as shown by his signature in the lower left corner.
Memo on H&D stationery. Best guess at transcription is "To Whoever it may concern, Hamilton 13 July 1887. I have to say that William Bishop worked for me and this railway in my office at Hamilton and I think him a very promising young man. For the four months he was with me he did his work very well he is sober and well behaved as far as I know and I can say that I liked him very much but he got what he thought a better place. John Weatherton Manager & Lessee
A badge for the Ryerson Methodist Church Sunday School picnic at the Dundas Driving Park, June 25 1920. The transit related portion is at the bottom: Ryerson Methodist (later Ryerson United Church, now Faith United Church) chartered a radial car to leave from Springer Ave & Maple Ave (now Maplewood) on the HG&B and go to Dundas on the H&D, and then return that evening. This badge (#145) would allow a person to board that car.
Letter on HRER stationery. Best guess at transcription is "Hamilton, Ont Oct 30 1893. JJ Marsharn & c. Dear Sir. Your letter to hand. I have not got anything definite from the Zalapoosa? Co but expect a letter every day. Mr Howe of the Coy [Company] has a brother in law here who says they are very sanguine about it. If you can make a fair start with foundations switch to this fall I think I can promise you a pretty good subscription myself as we want to divide up our business and your starting would put me in shape to subscribe. I will write again to the Zalapoosa people tomorrow if I do not hear from them. Let me know the time you will be here as I expect to be away off & on now for a while. Yours truly, John Patterson"
A letterhead for the Wentworth Incline Railway. Based on the phone number (GArfield [42]-341) we can date this to between 1919 (When the Garfield telephone exchange opened) and 1928 (When Hamilton switched to using 6 digit phone numbers).
A CCL envelope (Front, back, interior)
A CCL receipt (Front, and back) for a fall colours bus tour to Beaverton, dated October 15 1973
