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Majestic Restaurant

Closed 1969 (expropriated for Jackson Square)

Restaurant · Hamilton · Ontario, beyond the GTA

Dan Kuzoff, a Macedonian immigrant, opened the Majestic in downtown Hamilton in 1933 and built it into a 150-to-200-seat room where mayors — Lloyd Jackson, Vic Copps — took their lunch. The city expropriated the block in 1969 to build Jackson Square, and the Majestic's thirty-six years ended by bulldozer rather than by choice; Hamilton Public Library keeps its photograph.

It stands here for Hamilton's whole Macedonian restaurant generation, which fed the steel city as thoroughly as Toronto's fed the capital of the trade.

Details

Founded
1933
People
Dan Kuzoff

Sources (1)

  1. https://www.flickr.com/photos/hpllocalhistory/14001037617/

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