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Wentworth Street is a Lower City arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts off at the base of the Niagara Escarpment (mountain) on Charlton Avenue East just before the CP lines as a two-way street for 2 blocks up past ''Cumberland Avenue'' up to ''Rutherford Avenue'' where it then switches over to a one-way street southbound up to ''Barton Street East'' where it then becomes a two-way street again right through the city's ''North End'' industrial neighbourhood and ends north of ''Burlington Street East'' at Pier 14, which one time was used by International Harvester (1902–1992). ==History== ''Wentworth Street'', is named after Sir John Wentworth, lieutenant-governor of Nova Scotia, from 1792 to 1808. The first Westinghouse manufacturing operation outside of the United States was established in Hamilton, Ontario in 1897 on ''Sanford Avenue'', one year after ''The Dominion Power and Transmission Company'' was formed in Hamilton. This marked a new industrial era for Hamilton. It was then incorporated in 1903, (1903–1997).〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/industrial/intro.htm )〕 Company founder George Westinghouse set up a factory to build air brakes for the booming rail industry. Eventually the company was producing from its Hamilton plants electric ranges, refrigerators and washing machines. During each of the wars it was also producing guns, ammunition, anti-radar devices and bomb sights. At its peak in 1955, Westinghouse employed 11,000 people in Hamilton. (second only to Stelco) ''Westinghouse'' in Hamilton was the first company in Canada to manufacture radios (1923) and electric air cleaners (1944).〔 International Harvester became the second major United States industry to locate in Hamilton, Ontario in 1902, (1902–1992).〔 Originally known as ''Deering Harvester'', the company plant sprawled along the Hamilton waterfront and claimed to be the "''largest agricultural implement works in the British Empire.''" The plant was also involved in wartime production of specialized military items. The company started building heavy duty diesel trucks in Hamilton in 1959. The first to roll off the line was delivered to Dofasco, complete with a Rolls-Royce engine. Hamilton won over a number of Canadian cities when it successfully lured International Harvester. The reasons the company cited for its selection of Hamilton were as follows: it had waterside property that enabled the firm to control its own docks, its proximity to the steel industry, railway connections & the Cataract Power Company supplied them with cheap energy. In 1922, the Beech-Nut Packing Company (makers of the Life Savers candy), establishes Canadian operations in Hamilton on ''Cumberland Avenue'' near ''Sanford Avenue'' at the base of the Niagara Escarpment.〔 It was reported that when the company first started producing candy it was so pleased with the treatment from the city that it distributed free boxes of gum on the street and to every retailer in the city. By 1969 the company was producing more than a billion lifesavers candies a year in 26 flavours. A number of recording studios call Hamilton home. In 1985 Daniel Lanois, opened up (Grant Avenue Studios ) a landmark in Hamilton, on ''38 Grant Avenue'', one block west of ''Wentworth Street South''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.grantavestudio.com )〕 A solo artist in his own right he's made his mark as a producer for some of the world's biggest musical acts. Some of these include Bob Dylan, Peter Gabriel and U2.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/lanois_daniel/bio.jhtml )〕 In 2006, the Disney film Firehouse Dog was filmed at the old Westinghouse headquarters building (1903–1997), on ''Wentworth Street North'', (entrance one block east on ''Sanford Avenue'') which featured the firehouse dog jumping off the roof of the burning building. The site of the Cathedral Secondary School is the original site of the Hamilton Street Railway Company which maintained its operations at this site from 1910-1999. HSR was incorporated in 1873. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wentworth Street (Hamilton, Ontario)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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