Catharine Street (Hamilton, Ontario)

Catharine Street is a Lower City collector road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts off at Charlton Avenue East at Woolverton Park in the Corktown neighbourhood as a one-way street (southbound), tunnels underneath the Hunter Street Railway bridge and stretches up to Barton Street East where it then turns two-way and cutoff by the CN Railway lines that cut through Strachan Street Park one block north past Barton. Catharine Street then resumes again on Strachan Street East, north of the Park again as a two-way road for 3 blocks and interrupted again at Picton Street East, the site of St. Lawrence Elementary School and resumes again north of this property on Macauley Street East, again as a two-way street for another 3 blocks where it's interrupted for a third time at Brock Street, the site of Eastwood Park and Eastwood Arena. Catherine Street resumes again north of Eastwood Park on Guise Street East and ends at the city's North End waterfront, the site of a Royal Canadian Navy base and Pier 9.

History

Catharine Street was named after

In 1974, Hamilton's tallest building; Landmark Place, (formerly known as the Century 21 building) was completed. 43 stories/ 127.0 metres in height. It is also the tallest residential building in Canada outside of Toronto as of January 10, 2007.^[5]

On August 30, 2003, the 60th anniversary of her commissioning into the Royal Canadian Navy, HMCS Haida (Canada's most famous warship and the last remaining Tribal Class in the world) was moved to the city of Hamilton, Ontario by Parks Canada where she has become a focal point of a revitalized waterfront.^[6]

Landmarks

Note: Listing of Landmarks from North to South.

• Pier 9
• Royal Canadian Navy, Army and Sea Cadets
  • 31 Lion
  • 2347 Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
  • 2814 Hamilton SVC Btn.
• HMCS Haida National Historic Site, historic naval ship; Canada's most famous warship and the last remaining Tribal Class in the world.
• Eastwood Park/ Eastwood Arena
• Canadian National
  railway tracks, (Catharine Street interrupted here and resumes again north of the tracks)
• St. Lawrence Elementary School
• Econo Storage & Rental
• Hamilton Downtown Mosque
• Townsview Lifecare Retirement Home
• Hamilton Plaza (hotel)
• Landmark Place (Hamilton's tallest building)
• Oakland Square (shopping centre)
• 141 Catharine St S (Condominium complex)
• Woolverton Park

Communities

Note: Listing of neighbourhoods from North to South ^[7]

• Canadian National
  Railway tracks
• Beasley
• Corktown

References