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    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...
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  • William Hamilton Merritt III (June 8, 1855 in St. Catharines, Canada West – October 26, 1918) was a Canadian soldier, author, and mining engineer. His...
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  • William Merritt may refer to: William Merritt (mayor) (died 1708), Dutch politician William Hamilton Merritt (1793–1862), Canadian politician William...
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    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...
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    Margaret, who married the grandson of William Hamilton Merritt, William Hamilton Merritt III in 1890. The Merritts did not have any children, thus ending...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    perhaps unsurprisingly, Queenston. In 1816, a young man called William Hamilton Merritt bought a rundown sawmill on the Twelve Mile Creek, and added a...
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    Suspension Bridge. The bridge was part of Canadian politician William Hamilton Merritt's vision to promote trade within his country and with its neighbor...
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    American army, although Riall and militia cavalry leader Captain William Hamilton Merritt remained prisoners. Jesup's action and the steadiness of Scott's...
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  • 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...
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    council ward of St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. It was named after William Hamilton Merritt, a prominent local entrepreneur and founder of the Welland Canal...
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    the Welland Canal Company, denouncing the financing methods of William Hamilton Merritt, the company's financial agent, and its close links with the Executive...
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    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...
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    to 1874. He was born in Mayville, New York in 1824, the son of William Hamilton Merritt. He studied at Upper Canada College and Grantham Academy in St...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    "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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    see them, while making loud war cries. Militia cavalry leader William Hamilton Merritt noted that "Tecumseh extended his men, and marched them three times...
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    had powerful supporters of the Welland block further progress. William Hamilton Merritt, founder of the Welland Canal Company, was willing to support inland...
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    the canal. The growing town was later named Merrittsville, after William Hamilton Merritt, the initiator of the Welland Canal project. This name is reflected...
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  • Canadian Voyageurs on the 1884 Nile Expedition Lieutenant Colonel William Hamilton Merritt III: served in the North-West Rebellion and the Boer War Brigadier...
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  • was completed in 1825. In 1824, the Erie project was visited by William Hamilton Merritt and he likely recruited Barrett as resident superintending engineer...
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    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...
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    Field Artillery, RCA. Also known as Merritt's troop, after its first commander, Captain William Hamilton Merritt.: 39–40  When raised in June 1813, it...
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    a prisoner, a fellow captive (Canadian militia dragoon officer William Hamilton Merritt) described him as "very brave, near sighted, rather short, but...
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  • Twelve Mile Creek was William Hamilton Merritt. Both mill operators were troubled by low water levels, especially in late summer. Merritt proposed a canal...
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