Seeing as the name of the blog is 'My Stoney Creek', I may as well start where I stand. (Not entirely true, but I'm using some artistic license here.)
I think any time someone addresses how something is framed, they're going to bring into effect their own biases. Mea culpa, no contest here.
I'm a traditionalist. I believe that 'Stoney Creek' means just that, and I've never accepted that it extends to 'Upper Stoney Creek' or any somesuch nonsense. (As it is, extending the eastern border to Fruitland Road...you know, Fruitland...is itself contentious to me...but there ya go.)
Further, I believe that in an Amalgamated Greater City of Hamilton, if I'm going to push my beliefs forward about the importance of neighbourhood associations being the foundation of activism, if I'm going to evangelize about the importance of 'pride-of-place', community identity, respect and everything attached to these things, then I believe we need to acknowledge our 'roped-in' communities and celebrate their heritage and traditions.
So.
The start of my re-imagining of ward boundaries begins here, in Stoney Creek, with Ward 9.
(Apologies for the quality of mapping.)
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