Henley’s Hamilton and the Muser

Brian Henley

Readings from Saturday Musings written by Hamilton Ontario local historian Richard Butler

Episodes

  1. 11/02/2022

    November 1 1894 in Hamilton

    TH&B, Hallowe’en and more

    12 min

  2. 10/31/2022

    October 31 1894 in Hamilton

    The Coal Oil Inlet, ‘Lady’s Day in the Police Court etc.

    11 min

  3. 10/30/2022

    October 30 1894

    Sort episode … work on the TH&B slowed by rain, two boys convicted of theft were ordered by the Magistrate to be flogged by their father, if not the boys were to go to jail

    6 min

  4. 10/29/2022

    October 29 1894 in Hamilton

    Death at Coote’s Paradise and more

    14 min

  5. 10/29/2022

    October 27 1894 in Hamilton

    East End Incline Railway projected

    13 min

  6. 10/27/2022

    October 25 1894

    Fruit thieves get 4 years

    13 min

  7. 10/22/2022

    October 22 1894 in Hamilton

    Monday ‘active operations’ commence on TH&B, many prospective workers from outside Hamilton arrive and more, including an A D. Stewart reference

    11 min

  8. 10/21/2022

    October 20 1894 in Hamilton

    Two young ladies walk to Toronto, two small boys, brothers, flogged for breaking windows

    10 min

  9. Trailer

    Henley’s Hamilton and the Muser (Trailer)

    Henley’s Hamilton and the Muser

    1 min
  10. October 17 1894 - in Hamilton

    10/19/2022

    October 17 1894 - in Hamilton

    The beginnings of a major transformation of Hamilton from the fall of 1894 to the end of 1895

    10 min
  11. Henley’s Hamilton and the Muser

    03/06/2021

    Henley’s Hamilton and the Muser

    The Old Muser, Richard Butler, had a Weekly Column with the a Great Family Journal (The Hamilton Spectator) for more than 20 years. This podcast will share selections of his writings accompanied by some commentary as to helping put in contemporary some of what the Muser goes on about

    9 min

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