Upper Sherman Avenue is an Upper City (mountain) arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario

Hamilton, Ontario

Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe...

, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

. It starts off north of Concession Street

Concession Street (Hamilton, Ontario)

Concession Street is an Upper City arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts at Belvidere Avenue, just West of Sam Lawrence Park, and extends eastward past Mountain Drive Park on Upper Gage Avenue and ends shortly thereafter at East 43rd Street.Note: East of East 43rd Street the road...

 at Mountain Brow Avenue and extends southward where it ends at Rymal Road. It is a two-way street throughout.

History

Named Upper Sherman Avenue because it is in alignment with Sherman Avenue

Sherman Avenue (Hamilton, Ontario)

Sherman Avenue, is a Lower City collector road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts off at the base of the Niagara Escarpment just south of Cumberland Avenue and is a one-way street northbound that cuts through the city's North End industrial neighbourhood and ends at Ship Street, the site of...

 in the Lower City Hamilton. Sherman Avenue originally was called Shearman Avenue which was named after the first land assessor of the district, nothing more is known of Shearman who remains a man of mystery in Hamilton's history books. Later the name was changed from Shearman to Sherman Avenue in honour of brothers Clifton Sherman, (1872-1955) and Frank Sherman, (1887-1967), who both founded Dominion Foundries and Steel (later called Dofasco

Dofasco

Dofasco is a steel company based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, which is also home to longtime Canadian rival Stelco. Dofasco is currently a standalone subsidiary of ArcelorMittal, the world's largest steel producer. Previously ordered by the U.S...

) in 1912, creating a giant that would bring prosperity and identity to the city.

Landmarks

Note: Listing of Landmarks from North to South.

• Niagara Escarpment
  Niagara Escarpment
  The Niagara Escarpment is a long escarpment, or cuesta, in the United States and Canada that runs westward from New York State, through Ontario, Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois...
  
  
• Henderson General Hospital
• Sherman Cut, mountain-access road
• Eastmount Park
• Macassa Lodge
• Macassa Park
• County Fair Plaza
• Ray Lewis Elementary School (off of Jasmine Street)
• Lawfield Park
  • Lawfield Arena
• Lincoln M. Alexander Parkway
  Lincoln M. Alexander Parkway
  The Lincoln Alexander Parkway, officially nicknamed "The Linc", is a municipal expressway in the Canadian city of Hamilton, Ontario. Located on the Hamilton mountain, atop the Niagara Escarpment...
  
  , “The LINC”
• St. Jean de Brebeuf Secondary School
  St. Jean de Brebeuf Secondary School
  Saint Jean de Brébeuf Catholic Secondary School is one of seven Roman Catholic high schools in Hamilton, Ontario, under the jurisdiction of the Hamilton-Wentworth Catholic District School Board. The school is located on the East Mountain of Hamilton, serving the south-east of Hamilton as well as...
  
   (off of Acadia Drive)
• Billy Sherring Park

Communities

Note: Listing of neighbourhoods from North to South.

• Eastmount/ Raleigh, Upper Sherman cuts through these two neighbourhoods
• Burkhome/ Macassa, Upper Sherman cuts through these two neighbourhoods
• Thorner/ Lawfield, Upper Sherman cuts through these two neighbourhoods
• Rushdale/ Randall, Upper Sherman cuts through these two neighbourhoods
• Butler/ Eleanor, Upper Sherman cuts through these two neighbourhoods

Roads that are parallel with Upper Sherman Avenue

Note: Listing of Roads from West to East.

• Wilson Street (Ancaster)
• Highway 403
  Highway 403 (Ontario)
  King's Highway 403, also known as Highway 403, is a 400-series highway in the Canadian province of Ontario that travels between Woodstock and Mississauga, branching off from and reuniting with Highway 401 at both ends and travelling south of it through Hamilton and Mississauga. It is concurrent...
  
  
• Upper Paradise Road
  Upper Paradise Road (Hamilton, Ontario)
  Upper Paradise Road is an Upper City collector road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts off just north of Scenic Drive by Cliffview Park and extends southward where it ends just south of Rymal Road beside Carpenter Park...
  
  
• Garth Street
  Garth Street (Hamilton, Ontario)
  Garth Street is an Upper City arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts off at Beckett Drive, a mountain-access road in the north, and extends southward where it ends at Twenty Road just east of the Glancaster Golf and Country Club...
  
  
• West 5th Street
  West 5th Street (Hamilton, Ontario)
  West 5th Street is an Upper City arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts off in the north at James Mountain Road, a mountain-access road, and extends southward past Rymal Road where it ends just south of Christopher Drive...
  
  
• Upper James Street
  Upper James Street (Hamilton, Ontario)
  Upper James Street, is an Upper City arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts at the Claremont Access, a mountain-access road in the north, and extends southward towards the John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport where it then changes its name to the Hamilton Port Dover Plain...
  
  
• Upper Wellington Street
  Upper Wellington Street (Hamilton, Ontario)
  Upper Wellington Street is an Upper City arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts at the Jolley Cut, a mountain-access road to the north, beside Sam Lawrence Park and extends southward past Rymal Road where it ends at the Mount Hamilton Cemetery...
  
  
• Upper Wentworth Street
  Upper Wentworth Street (Hamilton, Ontario)
  Upper Wentworth Street is an Upper City arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts off at Concession Street in the north and extends southward past Rymal Road. It is a two-way street throughout.-History:...
  
  
• Upper Sherman Avenue
• Upper Gage Avenue
  Upper Gage Avenue (Hamilton, Ontario)
  Upper Gage Avenue is an Upper City arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts off at Concession Street in front of Mountain Drive Park and works its way southward and ends just past Rymal Road beside Broughton West Park 2...
  
  
• Upper Ottawa Street
  Upper Ottawa Street (Hamilton, Ontario)
  Upper Ottawa Street is an Upper City arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts off at Mountain Brow Boulevard in the north and extends southward where it ends just past Rymal Road at the South Hamilton Industrial Park...
  
  
• Nebo Road
  Nebo Road (Hamilton, Ontario)
  Nebo Road is an Upper City road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts off at Stone Church Road East and extends southward where it ends at Chippewa Road East, just north of Lake Niapenco at the Binbrook Conservation Area....
  
  
• Upper Kenilworth Avenue
  Upper Kenilworth Avenue (Hamilton, Ontario)
  Upper Kenilworth Avenue is an Upper City arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts off at Fennell Avenue in the north and extends southward just past Limeridge Road where it ends north of the Lincoln M...
  
  
• Mountain Brow Boulevard
• Upper Centennial Parkway
  Upper Centennial Parkway (Hamilton, Ontario)
  Upper Centennial Parkway is a mountain-access road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Also known as Hamilton Highway 20, the road starts off at Centennial Parkway in the Lower City beside Battlefield Park and extends south up the Niagara Escarpment and southward across the mountain where it ends at...
  
  

Roads that cross Upper Sherman Avenue

Note #1: Listing of streets from North to South.

• Concession Street
  Concession Street (Hamilton, Ontario)
  Concession Street is an Upper City arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts at Belvidere Avenue, just West of Sam Lawrence Park, and extends eastward past Mountain Drive Park on Upper Gage Avenue and ends shortly thereafter at East 43rd Street.Note: East of East 43rd Street the road...
  
  
• Queensdale Avenue East
• Fennell Avenue
  Fennell Avenue (Hamilton, Ontario)
  Fennell Avenue, is an Upper City arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts of just West Garth Street on the West mountain and is a two-way street throughout that extends eastward and ends at Mountain Brow Boulevard, a road that wraps around the edge of the Niagara Escarpment on...
  
   East
• Mohawk Road
  Mohawk Road (Hamilton, Ontario)
  Mohawk Road, is an Upper City arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It is a two-way street throughout that starts just West of Highway 403 & Meadowlands and travels eastward linking up with the Lincoln M. Alexander Parkway. Mohawk Road east of Highway 403 resumes again in front of Iroquoia...
  
   East
• Limeridge Road
  Limeridge Road (Hamilton, Ontario)
  Limeridge Road is a two-way Upper City collector road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts off just West of Garth Street/William McCulloch Park as Limeridge Court and cuts across the Hamilton mountain eastward running parallel with the Lincoln M...
  
   East
• Lincoln M. Alexander Parkway
  Lincoln M. Alexander Parkway
  The Lincoln Alexander Parkway, officially nicknamed "The Linc", is a municipal expressway in the Canadian city of Hamilton, Ontario. Located on the Hamilton mountain, atop the Niagara Escarpment...
  
  
• Stone Church Road
  Stone Church Road (Hamilton, Ontario)
  Stone Church Road, is a two-way Upper City east-west arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts at Golf Links Road, just east of Meadowlands, and goes across the Escarpment and ends at Upper Mount Albion Road....
  
   East
• ; Rymal Road East

External links

• Google Maps: Upper Sherman Avenue (Hybrid)