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Notable residents and former players include Angelo Mosca . The CFL's annual Eastern Division Labour Day classic pits the Hamilton Tiger-Cats against perennial rivals the Toronto Argonauts . Oddly, for many years before his death, Harold Ballard owned both the Tiger-Cats and the Toronto Maple Leafs , the National Hockey League (NHL) franchise in rival city Toronto. The team's prowess has fallen dramatically from its glory days in the 1960s and early 1970s, when it was a powerhouse. In recent decades, Hamilton has yearned and applied for an NHL franchise. It has been continually disappointed, and voted against by nearby Buffalo and Toronto who would lose revenue if Hamilton had a NHL franchise. The world class arena Victor K. Copps Coliseum was built downtown on Bay Street North. The sports and entertainment arena, named for a former mayor and father of Sheila Copps , has hosted the World Junior Championship Games and is home ice for the Hamilton Bulldogs of the American Hockey League . The Hamilton Tigers played in the NHL during the early '20s. The Around the Bay Race circumnavigates Hamilton Harbour or Burlington Bay . Although it is not a proper Marathon , it is the longest continuously held long distance foot race in North America. The local newspaper also hosts the amateur Spectator Indoor Games. Hamilton is twinned with in 2003. The Hamilton Golf Club hosted the 2003 Canadian Open golf championship in which Bob Tway won. The traditional course layout, designed by famed course architect Hary Colt, proved very popular with touring pros and will again host the Canadian Open in 2006. In 1998, the Ontario Raiders of the National Lacrosse League were based in Hamilton and played at Victor K. Copps Coliseum . In 1999, the team moved to Toronto and became the Toronto Rock . Since 2002, the Hamilton Thunder have played in the Canadian Professional Soccer League (CPSL). They play at the Brian Timmis Stadium next to the larger Ivor Wynne Stadium . The Hamilton Steelers played in the Canadian Soccer League during the late 1980s and early 1990s. The Hamilton Thunderbirds play in the Intercounty Baseball League . The Hamilton Wildcats play in the Ontario Australian Football League . Hamilton were the hosts of the first Commonwealth Games (then called British Empire Games) in 1930 , and bid unsuccessfully for the Commonwealth Games in 2010, losing out to New Delhi in India . Famous athletes from Hamilton
TRANSPORTATION Air John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport is located on the Mountain at Mount Hope in the former Glanbrook Township . Scheduled passenger service is provided by WestJet , who for several years used the airport as their primary point of access to Southern Ontario over the more expensive Toronto Pearson International Airport , and Air Canada Jazz ; other airlines also offer vacation charters. The airport is also a major lower-cost alternative to Pearson for Cargo Air Service . Rail Canadian National Railways (CN) serves Hamilton for lifting and setting off traffic for the Rail America (Southern Ontario Railway Shortline), but as heavy industry declined and the preferred mode of transportation changed to road, the number of branch lines and feeder tracks has declined dramatically. Until the early 1970s, the Toronto, Hamilton And Buffalo Railway offered passenger service. Since the late 1980s, GO Transit has offered sporadic passenger train service from its James Street North station. In the late 1990s, GO Transit operations were consolidated at the refurbished Art Deco building on Hunter Street which formerly served as the TH&B station. The nearest VIA Rail Canada station is at Aldershot (GO Station) in west Burlington . YA Bus Hamilton has good bus connections with cities in southern Ontario and western New York . GO Transit offers frequent and reliable express bus service to Toronto, now from the TH&B station and formerly from Rebecca Street. Various other companies, such as Greyhound Canada and Coach Canada offer less frequent service to St. Catharines , Niagara Falls , Buffalo , Kitchener-Waterloo , Guelph , Brantford and London . Within the city, the , which is served about as well as the Mountain). Burlington Transit also serves Burlington via York Boulevard and the former Highway 2 , and HSR connects downtown Burlington under the Burlington Skyway Bridge . Highways and expressways The following controlled access highways and expressways serve Hamilton:
There are several other current or former Ontario highways in Hamilton, but they are not divided, controlled access highways. The controversial Red Hill Creek extension of the LINC is under construction, and will join the existing mountain portion of the LINC with the QEW in east Hamilton. City streets All of the old city of Hamilton is on a broken great grid pattern, with major north-south streets spaced approximately one mile apart. Great grid streets on the Mountain bear the name of their lower city counterparts with the prefix "Upper" except for Garth Street, which would be Upper Dundurn Street if the pattern held. East-west streets on the Mountain are pretty regular, while those in the lower city (especially major ones) are very irregular. King and Main Streets run approximately parallel to one another though they intersect at the Delta. They are usually one way streets in opposite directions, so they are best conceptualized as a single very wide boulevard and are envied by other Ontario cities for their usually efficient flow of traffic. However, some contend that the very efficiency that makes driving easy discourages pedestrian streetlife and hurts downtown businesses. Streets that have recently converted from one-way to two-way, like James St. North, have enjoyed a resurgence in local business, reinvestment in buildings, and improving economic activity. CITY NEIGHBOURHOODS Lower City (below Escarpment)
Mountain (above Escarpment)
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