Comments on: Lister Block

By: City council kills Lister Block deal - ManiaRavings

City council kills Lister Block deal - ManiaRavings — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:29:15 +0000

[...] Hamilton City Council met Wednesday night with with LIUNA, the current owners of the historic Lister Block for a round of talks to buy the building. This time city proposed that LIUNA would agree to build a [...]

By: Jaffer

Jaffer — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:48:02 +0000

Thank you very much Drowsey ! Thank you for dropping by !

By: DrowseyMonkey

DrowseyMonkey — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:35:50 +0000

I admire your passion for this subject matter! I thoroughly enjoyed reading that post. Love all the photos too.

By: Jaffer

Jaffer — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:37:16 +0000

Tuba - It’s not very easy to find history of buildings if they are not well known and are not well documented. In that case finding the information can turn into an adventure itself. But once you’ve stumbled upon a reliable source finding the rest of the information gets easier.

By: Tuba

Tuba — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 11:09:18 +0000

Wow, Lister Block is a really interesting building! There’s so much history!
*sigh* I wish I had the energy and enthusiasm for finding out information about old buildings. Oh well.

By: Jaffer

Jaffer — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:23:36 +0000

Arun: Good one !

Anonymous: I was hoping that someone mention “compassion”. I am glad it was you. My local newspaper (The Hamilton Spectator) was already a major reference for the building’s history. I am more happy to have digitized some of the historic pictures and being able to show them. You will find more pictures on my Zooomr page.
If you know a building that has been abandoned for decades, then there has to be history behind it. A fact finding report of that building would be a great service to your neighbourhood.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:41:41 +0000

Wow! Masha’Allah, this report is excellent! You should send it to a local newspaper! While reading I had so much compassion for this old building. There is a story like that in my neighbourhood but I have no idea what the building is called, only that it has been abandoned for decades! Well done!

By: Arun Sundar

Arun Sundar — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:22:40 +0000

On a lighter note, looking at the title I thought this post is gonna be something similar to ‘Writer’s block!’

By: Jaffer

Jaffer — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 23:25:36 +0000

Curtis: LIUNA is planning to build a replica of it and go as far as reusing the some of the original decorative elements. So there is still hope.

By: Curtis

Curtis — Fri, 30 May 2008 01:46:41 +0000

If they can’t save it due to dangerous compounds used when the building was reconstructed. I hope they rebuild a building that looks like this one. I enjoy the history of old buildings.

Curtis’s last blog post… Little Tomatoes 2

By: Jaffer

Jaffer — Wed, 28 May 2008 21:17:06 +0000

Firas: I am surprised this is coming from you ! However I too could not help encountering Baron Lister’s medical achievements during my research, so I came to know a lot about him as well.

The Joseph Lister I am talking about was a cloth merchant. During his time in Canada, he was an active member of the community serving as a member of the board of water commissioners and twenty years as a school trustee.

He died in 1892, where as Baron Lister’s death is recorded to be in 1912.

By: Firas

Firas — Wed, 28 May 2008 19:08:33 +0000

Joseph Lister as in the Father of Surgical Asepsis, the inventor of carbolic acid surgical sterilization? Wow!