The book Heritage Treasures by Susan Evans Shaw, photography by Jean Crankshaw was launched in November 2004 and received the Athens Printing Award for Non-Fiction Book, Arts Hamilton Literary Awards, 2005
In the Introduction, Susan writes: The loveliness of the City of Hamilton is one of Ontario's best kept secrets. While Toronto's glass towers glisten like the City of Oz across the lake, dowdy Hamilton is seen to belch smoke from her mills and factories, unable to shake the blue-collar, lunch-bucket image perpetuated by the misinformed.
My colleague, Jean Crankshaw and I are not native Hamiltonians but we have chosen to live here and to live downtown. We are both fond of walking and, the one-way streets notwithstanding, Hamilton is a good city for walking; plenty of trees, parks, alleyways, neighbourhoods and architecture. Take a look from the escarpment or from the top of a tall building and you'll see from west to east how green the city is. Canopied by all those trees are houses, grand and humble, and so many of architectural merit.
A selection of houses featured in the book can be seen in my Architecture Gallery
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