Ambitious City

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a nickname for Hamilton, Ontario.

Quotations

1858

The inhabitants of Hamilton call it "ambitious little city;" and its ambition is to be measured by deeds as well as by words. . . .

1891

It is another feather in the musical cap of the Ambitious City, and all Canada has a right to feel good over it.

1965

It's hard to be poor in the Ambitious City.