Fire Station 1
“Heart of Hamilton Since 1913”
Fire Station 1 serves the downtown and core of Hamilton. It has the smallest district in the city being only 11 blocks wide and 26 blocks long. Its primary response district is only 1.6 square miles (4.14 square kilometres) of the 463 square miles (1200 square kilometres) that make up the “City Of Hamilton”. Despite its small district it managed to r
espond to approximately 4000 calls a year. Station 1’s district may be the most diverse of all of the districts in the city. From the bay to the bottom of the escarpment, it has variety. Station 1 has on its water front, tug boats, ocean going and great lakes vessels, a naval base with the “Canada’s Most Famous Fighting Ship” restaurants’”, 5 yacht clubs, warehouses and the Hamilton Port Authority headquarters. The district has 2 arena’s including the largest, “Copps Coliseum” seating up to 21,000 people, an armoury, the “Hamilton Farmers Market”, the main branch of the library, the chamber of commerce, an arts district including the “Art Gallery of Hamilton”, the “Canadian Football Hall of Fame”, a convention centre, 24 churches, 6 schools, both boards of education headquarters and a campus of “McMaster University”. It has “City Hall”, the “Provincial Government Building” and the “Federal Building”. It has “Hamilton Police Services headquarters”, the central lockup, the area detention centre but only 6 “Tim Horton’s”. It has 4 community centres, 3 accesses to the mountain, and 2 hospitals including the 2 busiest emergency rooms in the city. The district holds the “Provincial Court” house and the “Family Court” house, the Hamilton Law Association and many law offices. It is home from everything from the “Hamilton Philharmonic” to jazz and blues clubs to alternative music to the Hamilton Bulldogs Hockey Team. The district is home to the cities railway station, bus terminal, and the “CNR” rail yards. We have “CN” and “CPR” rail lines, “VIA Rail”, “Amtrak”, “GO Transit” trains and buses running through its district. We have some of the most desirable and expensive homes in the city along with condos, apartments, day care to senior centres to such places as the “Salvation Army” hostel, the “Wesley Centre” to the “Good Sheppard Centre”. Station 1’s district has office and apartment building with buildings ranging in height from a single story bungalow to the tallest building in Hamilton at 47 floors. The district has 14 parks and parking lots with underground lots stretching for blocks and down as far as 12 storeys. The district has the cities’ 2 largest hotels and both the YMCA and the YWCA. The district has historical buildings such as “Whitehern”, the “Ontario Workers Arts & Heritage Centre”, and the oldest public school in the province, the first telephone exchange in the Commonwealth and most likely the greatest number of restaurants, bars and clubs of any district in the city. The district has movie theatres, and live theatre at “Hamilton Place” and the “Dofasco Centre for the Performing Arts”. Station 1, serving downtown the core and the “Heart of Hamilton Since 1913”
