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Ron Joyce, a former Hamilton police constable, saw that Hockey great Tim Horton was looking for help in running his store through an ad in the newspaper. Joyce proceeded to take out a $10,000 loan from the credit union which he then invested in the store.

At that time, the store was known as "Tim Horton." Later the name was changed to "Tim Horton's" and then later still to "Tim Hortons," with no apostrophe.

In 1965, Ron Joyce took over the original Tim Hortons store with future aspirations of expanding the store to include ten outlets. At this time, a quarter could buy a cup of coffee and a doughnut. A dozen doughnuts cost 89 cents. Slowly, more Tim Hortons stores started springing up and business was fairly successful.

Baking twice every 24 hours, the 1,500 stores go through an average of 200 pounds of dough everyday. Their sales totaled $646-million in 1996. He ranked 29th on this year's Canadian Business Rich 100, with a net worth of $810 million, though a recent slump in Wendy's share price has since cut that total by approximately $100 million. In 1997, there were 70 stores in Hamilton-Wentworth area alone. This works out to one store for every 7,081 people, which confirms the statements that Hamilton truly is the capital of coffee and doughnut stores.

Kelso, John Joseph. Born 1864 Dundalk. Came to Canada in 1874. Social Reformer. Kelso was a co founder and organizer of the Children's Aid Society in Ontario.

Father Kyran Kennedy (1927 - )

Father Kyran Kennedy has devoted his life to serving the needs of the Hamilton community. A man of compassion, deep, unwavering faith, and a commitment to community service, Father Kennedy is a leader in education, health and recreation who has worked to improve opportunities for both able-bodied and disabled youth.

As a coach at Cathedral High School Father Kennedy played an instrumental role in the creation of a dynamic and celebrated basketball program. In 1957 he was appointed Diocesan Director of the Catholic Youth Organization, guiding the fledgling agency through its first years as a United Way member. In 1961 C.Y.O. re-opened Camp Brebeuf, a residential youth camp that integrated disabled children into its program and pioneered the inclusion of campers with special needs into Ontario Camping Association member camps.

Father Kennedy has been a member of the Hamilton-Wentworth Roman Catholic Separate School Board since 1968, board chairman for seven of those years and chairman of the Finance Committee for three years. From 1974 to 1986, he was a member of the St. Joseph’s Hospital Board of Trustees, acting as chairman from 1983 to 1986.

As a young man Father Kennedy studied philosophy at St. Michael’s College in Toronto where he decided to become a priest. He went on to study theology at St. Augustine’s Major Seminary in Toronto and was ordained to the priesthood in 1952. Father Kennedy served six Hamilton parishes until his retirement in 1994. In 1998, he received the award for distinguished service for his outstanding contribution to Catholic education.

Kennedy coached dozens of hockey and football champions in both Ontario and Quebec. In 19 years at McMaster, he brought the Marauders within a hair of a national football championship and guided the Lady Mac hockey team to a North American title. All the while treating his charges as adults and never forgetting that, in the end, it was just a game.

His father was an Irish tenor, his mother a dancer, growing up backstage, he absorbed the dance routines and corny jokes he would continue to recycle for the rest of his life. A capable athlete, he played junior hockey and was scouted by the Boston Red Sox as a baseball player. During the war, he enlisted in the RCAF and served overseas as a Lancaster navigator. Using his veteran benefits, he enrolled in a phys-ed program at the University of Toronto after the war, playing both hockey and football.

On graduation, he was hired by the university as faculty member and assistant football coach. The pay was $2,600 a year. Within two years he had taken over the Varsity Blues hockey team and began a remarkable run that saw the team win six league titles in nine years. A measure of just how good his teams were came in 1958, when they split a two-game series with the then world champion Whitby Dunlops. At one point, Kennedy tried to recruit a young junior player by the name of of Bobby Orr. Among the players he coached were future NHLer Eric Nesterenko, future Ontario premier William Davis and future NHL coaches Harry Neale and Tom Watt.

In 1963, the chance to become athletic director lured him to Loyola College in Montreal (now Corcordia) where he coached the football team to its first-ever league championship. In 1965, he was recruited by Ivor Wynne to come to McMaster and within a year had turned the Marauders into a powerhouse. It all came together in '67 when the team, undefeated in 11 games, went to the inaugural Vanier Cup and lost a heartbreaker. Down 10-9 to the University of Alberta, the Marauders had first down on the Alberta 17 yard line with 35 seconds left. In a momentarily loss of reason, the Mac quarterback rolled out and threw a pass that was intercepted on the five-yard line.

In 1969, he was named athletic director, eventually taking his MA at the University of Buffalo and his doctorate at Ohio State. In '75, Kennedy took over the Lady Mac hockey team and within three years had won a North American championship. Several of his players, including Lois Cole, Sue Schere and Marion Coveny, would go on to play for the national team that won the first world championship. Kennedy retired from Mac in 1984

One of Hamilton's Greatest Athletes.

Bobby Kerr was Amateur Champion of Canada for the 100 yard dash in 1907, and the 250 yards in 1906,1907,1908. He went to the St. Louis Olympics and was eliminated (exhausted from the trip), returned to Canada and was undefeated, and in 1906 was unable to get funding to go to the 1906 Greek Olympics. In 1907 he broke the Canadian record for the 50 yard dash. Again in 1908 he was undefeated in the Olympic trials. During the 1908 Olympics he place 3rd in the 100 yards and won Gold in the 220 yards! Was deemed "the Greatest Sprinter in the world."

During a distinguished medical career that stretched over 64 years, Kerr was a physician, insulin research pioneer, decorated soldier and founder of the University of British Columbia's medical school. Robert Bews Kerr was born in Hamilton, the eldest son of a Westinghouse executive who wanted his son to become a lawyer.

After graduating from Hamilton Central Collegiate and the University of Toronto with a specialty in internal medicine, he served as a research fellow, developing new diabetic applications for protamine zinc insulin with insulin pioneer Charles Best. Following post-graduate work in diabetes at London Hospital, he was admitted to England's Royal College of Surgeons.

During the Second World War, Kerr was commissioned captain with the Canadian Medical Corps, served in England, Belgium, France and Germany, treating wounded soldiers and concentration camp inmates in various field hospitals and was promoted to lieutenant-colonel. For his work in controlling a diphtheria epidemic in one Belgium hospital -- there were 430 individual cases -- he was awarded the Order of the British Empire.

Back in Canada, he was named head of therapeutics at the University of Toronto where he was working in 1950 when the call came from the University of British Columbia.

At 42, Kerr was appointed the first head of medicine, a position he would hold for the next 24 years. He served as the designated physician for visiting foreign diplomats and, in 1954, was attending physician for the British Empire Games in Vancouver. During the '60s, he was president of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons and continued as an active member up until the last few months of his life.

He retired from UBC in 1974, but continued in private practice well into the 1980s. In 1979, he co-authored a biography of U of T medical professor Duncan Graham. In his latter years, Kerr served as personal physician and nurse for his wife, Lois, while she battled cancer, keeping detailed clinical notes of her condition on a bedside clipboard.

In addition to his wife, an author and playwright, he is survived by three sons, John, a geologist; James, a meteorologist, and Charles, a physician; and by one sister, Eleanor Morrow, mother of Hamilton Mayor Bob Morrow.

Lenaten, Jane AKA "Sister Mary Philip" Born 1826 Wexford. Died 1911 Hamilton.

During the 1854 Cholera Outbreak, Hundreds of sick Irish immigrants were detained on the wharfs of Hamilton in railway sheds. Sister Mary was called upon to care for her country folk and this she did with selfless disregard. She prepared the bodies and cared for the sick with another Nun, Annie Sheridan. In 1862 she was elected superior General of the Sisters of St. Joseph, she was responsible for raising the funds for a new orphanage (many Irish whose parents either abandoned them or died) In 1890 When St. Joseph Hospital was opened on John St. She was named its first administrator. She spent 58 years as a Sister of St. Joseph, dedicating her life for others.

Little, William. Born 1863. First President of the Canadian Forestry Association.

John Lyle designed more than one hundred of the most beautiful and most historic buildings in and around Toronto, as well as across Canada. He was born in Belfast, Ireland, and raised in Hamilton where his father founded the Hamilton Art Gallery. He was trained in the Beaux Arts tradition which nurtured two other Canadian architects of note - Percy Erskine Nobbs and Ernest Cormicher.

After Beaux Arts training in Paris and New York, he opened his office in Toronto in 1906 and became an immediately successful missionary for the Beaux Arts movement. He designed the Toronto Union Station, the Royal Alexandra theatre, many banks across Canada, a church in Hamilton where his father was a Presbyterian minister, the central prison at Guelph, the original Toronto Stock Exchange, Woodbine Racetrack, houses, libraries and parks. In the 1930s he became the favourite architect of the wealthiest families of the Toronto Establishment.

John Lyle was a man passionately committed to helping Canadians design Canadian buildings in a Canadian way, not just copies of the latest American or European fad. He began later evolving a style which might be called Canadian Deco. He set out to revive the forms of Canadian architecture, and eventually abandoned Canadiana for a cleaner, less ornate style know as strip classical or depression modern. In 1913 he became President of the Architectural Club at the University of Toronto; he was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy in 1925 and as a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1928. He was awarded the Gold Medal of Architects in 1926, and a silver medal for civilian relief work in France during World War I.

Lyle, Samuel. Born 1841 Co Antrim. Moderator of the Hamilton and London Presbyterian Synod.