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Hamilton Street Railway

Public transit agency in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 19, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The Hamilton Street Railway (HSR) is the public transport agency for Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The name is a legacy of the company's early period, when public transit in Hamilton was primarily served by streetcars. Although streetcars are no longer used in the city today, the HSR operates bus and paratransit services, with a ridership of 21 million passengers a year.

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The public source identifies “Hamilton Street Railway” as public transit agency in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Hamilton, Street and Railway.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 60-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Hamilton, Street and Railway providing the first useful test.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 19, 2026.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hamilton Street Railway” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.