William Hamilton Merritt (July 3, 1793 – July 5, 1862) was a businessman and politician in the Niagara Peninsula of Upper Canada in the early 19th century...

William Hamilton Merritt III (June 8, 1855 in St. Catharines, Canada West – October 26, 1918) was a Canadian soldier, author, and mining engineer. His...

William Merritt may refer to: William Merritt (mayor) (died 1708), Dutch politician William Hamilton Merritt (1793–1862), Canadian politician William...

name in 1906 in honour of mining engineer and railway promoter William Hamilton Merritt III. The 24-square-kilometre (9.3 sq mi) city limits consist of...

Margaret, who married the grandson of William Hamilton Merritt, William Hamilton Merritt III in 1890. The Merritts did not have any children, thus ending...

Canada. The first Welland Canal was constructed from 1824 to 1833. William Hamilton Merritt worked to promote the ambitious venture by raising funds and enlisting...

stations, CKTB and CHRE-FM, in "Oak Hill Mansion", the former home of William Hamilton Merritt, at 12 Yates Street in downtown St. Catharines. CHTZ-FM has an...

Suspension Bridge. The bridge was part of Canadian politician William Hamilton Merritt's vision to promote trade within his country and with its neighbor...

American army, although Riall and militia cavalry leader Captain William Hamilton Merritt remained prisoners. Jesup's action and the steadiness of Scott's...

the Welland Canal Company, denouncing the financing methods of William Hamilton Merritt, the company's financial agent, and its close links with the Executive...

stations, CKTB and CHTZ-FM, in "Oak Hill Mansion", the former home of William Hamilton Merritt, at 12 Yates Street in downtown St. Catharines. CHRE-FM has an...

perhaps unsurprisingly, Queenston. In 1816, a young man called William Hamilton Merritt bought a rundown sawmill on the Twelve Mile Creek, and added a...

Yates Street in downtown St. Catharines, in the former mansion of William Hamilton Merritt, the main promoter of the first Welland Canal. CKTB is a Class...

all men in Canada. It was founded in 1909, at the suggestion of William Hamilton Merritt III, and was formally inaugurated on September 10, 1910, in Toronto...

Canadian Voyageurs on the 1884 Nile Expedition Lieutenant Colonel William Hamilton Merritt III: served in the North-West Rebellion and the Boer War Brigadier...

of Queenston was destroyed on 10 December 1813. British Captain William Hamilton Merritt later said that he saw "nothing but heaps of coals, and the streets...

maternal grandparents’ home in Mayville, New York in 1824, the son of William Hamilton Merritt. He studied at Upper Canada College in Toronto and Grantham Academy...

precursor to St. Catharines Collegiate. The institution was funded by William Hamilton Merritt. It was renamed the St. Catharines District Grammar School in the...

bypassing Niagara Falls and the Erie Canal. It was the idea of William Hamilton Merritt who owned a sawmill, grist mill and store on the Twelve Mile Creek...

council ward of St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. It was named after William Hamilton Merritt, a prominent local entrepreneur and founder of the Welland Canal...

"freeholders of the District of Niagara". One of the petitioners was William Hamilton Merritt, who was in part looking to provide a regular flow of water for...

a sawmill and a grist mill on Twelve Mile Creek owned by William Hamilton Merritt. Merritt's mills were plagued by low water conditions, especially in...

had powerful supporters of the Welland block further progress. William Hamilton Merritt, founder of the Welland Canal Company, was willing to support inland...

see them, while making loud war cries. Militia cavalry leader William Hamilton Merritt noted that "Tecumseh extended his men, and marched them three times...

helped build the SS Royal William. In 1836, he began leasing land for his own business in St. Catharines from William Hamilton Merritt for $15 annually. He...

1812, in Zaslow (ed) p. 183 The quote has also been ascribed to William Hamilton Merritt in Hitsman, p. 335 endnote Moir, John S. Laura Secord, in Zaslow...

the canal. The growing town was later named Merrittsville, after William Hamilton Merritt, the initiator of the Welland Canal project. This name is reflected...

killing thousands. 1833 – Building of the first Welland Canal by William Hamilton Merritt 1837 – Rebellions of 1837 - Upper Canada Rebellion in favour of...

was completed in 1825. In 1824, the Erie project was visited by William Hamilton Merritt and he likely recruited Barrett as resident superintending engineer...

was a comrade-in-arms, business partner and brother-in-law of William Hamilton Merritt, the St. Catharines merchant, miller, canal promoter, Tory politician...