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Mount Hope, Ontario

neighbourhood in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ6921269 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mount Hope is a community in the city of Hamilton in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is located in the geographic township of Glanford which amalgamated with Binbrook in 1974 to form Glanbrook. On January 1, 2001, Glanbrook was amalgamated with Hamilton, Flamborough, Ancaster, Dundas and Stoney Creek to form an enlarged Hamilton.

The John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport and the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum are located in Mount Hope.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Mount Hope had a population of 2,413 living in 708 of its 712 total private dwellings, a change of 1.9% from its 2016 population of 2,368. With a land area of 1.44 km2 (0.56 sq mi), it had a population density of 1,675.7/km2 (4,340.0/sq mi) in 2021.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Mount Hope, Ontario” is neighbourhood in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Mount, Hope and Ontario, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1974, 2001, 2021, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Mount, Hope and Ontario is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “neighbourhood in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6921269. Authority coordinates are 43.156, -79.915. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1974, 2001, 2021 and 2016.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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  • Subject orientation
  • Search vocabulary
  • Locating named sources
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The closest primary source, responsible institution and strongest cited specialist reference.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Mount Hope, Ontario”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Mount Hope, Ontario primary sources, Mount Hope, Ontario archive and Mount research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Mount Hope, Ontario”?
  2. Which institution is responsible for the underlying evidence?
  3. Which cited source is closest to the event, object or claim?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Mount Hope, Ontario” 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.