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The Hamilton Waterworks, a Victorian engineering feat

A commemorative plaque for the Hamilton Waterworks in Hamilton, Ontario, photographed in 2011.
A commemorative plaque for the Hamilton Waterworks in Hamilton, Ontario, photographed in 2011. Steam And Technology Museum - Hamilton, Ontario 01 · John A. Speakman · Photo source · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 3.0. Resized for display; item previews may be cropped. The image remains under the licence shown.
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The Hamilton Waterworks in Ontario, built in 1857–1859 to a design by engineer Thomas C. Keefer, is one of Canada’s greatest surviving engineering achievements of the mid-19th century. Its steam-powered pumphouse supplied as much as five million gallons of water a day until 1910, and the complex survives largely intact.

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The waterworks complex, not Hamilton’s present water system.

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