Name your neighbourhood

I was interested to learn that 100 years ago a competition was run to name Westdale.

The process had changed by the 1960s. That’s when neighbourhood planning became a thing. Many neighbourhoods didn’t have names, and so planners had to invent quite a few. On July 26, 1969, an article in The Spectator reported that 43 hearings had been held to show neighbourhood plans to local residents. Gary Smith, the reporter, commented that “few Hamiltonians know which of the city’s 109 ’neighbourhoods’ they live in”

I wonder how many know today! Richard Harris, Hamilton