Today’s guest post is by Lindsay Bell. 

Allow me to introduce to you The City of Hamilton, Ontario and its partner in PR apocalypse, Dialogue Partners.

Hamilton started out as bucolic rolling farmland tucked in and around the Niagara Escarpment, purchased after the War of 1812.

Today it’s a bustling metropolis of just more than a half million residents, give or take a few, and sits on the west end of Lake Ontario, an area know as the Golden Horseshoe.

But don’t let all those pretty names fool you – this is a heavily industrialized port city, and is populated by proud and feisty folk who don’t take kindly to smack talk about their little piece of Ontario.

Trust me.

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