Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te wa e rere ana te reera tereina puta noa i Amerika ki te Raki, ka uru wawe a Hamilton ki te whakatairanga i nga raina pepa i nga tau 1830. Kei roto i tenei ko Allan Napier MacNab's Hamilton me Port Dover Railway, ahakoa i utua i te 1835, kaore i tino whakatakotoria tetahi ara tae noa ki te waenganui o nga tau 1850 i raro i tetahi ingoa umanga rereke. I oti i a MacNab a Dundurn Castle, tana whare rangatira, i te tau 1835. He hōia tamaiti i te Pakanga o 1812, i ārahi ia i te hōia o Gore ki te patu i ngā whakakeke i te
Ko te whakakeke o te tau 1837 i whakawhiwhia ai ia hei rangatira i te tau e whai ake nei.