A nice piece of street art from Hamilton, Ontario. The sender is a student and sometimes actor. This card was sent in July of 2023 and he says it is hot, but luckily they have access to a Great Lake to cool down! Hamilton is located about 45 km south of Toronto and is a part of the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (7.3 million people). Hamilton itself has 570 000 of those people.  Steel and heavy manufacturing were a bit part of the economy up to the 2010s, when the city began to shift towards a service sector (health and sciences). Hamilton was known as "Steeltown" or "the Pittsburgh of the North" for a long time.  McMaster University is found here and is ranked the 4th best university in Canada, and 69th best in the world by Times Higher Education Rankings (2021).  Some famous Hamiltonians include Karen Kain (ballerina), Jean Adair (actor), Graham Greene (actor), Jason Jones (comedian and correspondent for The Daily Show ), Eugene Levy (comedian - SCTV, Schitt...

Dundurn Castle is a neoclassical mansion found in Hamilton. It was completed in 1835 and built by Sir Allan MacNab. MacNab was a Canadian politician, land speculator, and property investor, lawyer, soldier, and militia commander. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada, and was the joint premier of the Province of Canada from 1854 to 1856.  Fun fact - MacNab is related to Queen Camilla, King Charles III's wife, Camilla is the Royal Patron of Dundurn Castle today.  Dundurn has been many things since MacNab's death. It was used as an institution for the deaf for a time. the City of Hamilton bought the Dundurn in 1899. In the late 1960s, Dundurn was restored as a Centennial project and is now designated a National Historic Site of Canada.  Today, Dundurn operates as a civic museum.