on Procter & Gamble Hamilton plant, which cost $1 million and consisted of seven buildings: the Crisco building, the boiler house, the gas plant, the soap building, the hardening plant, the kettle and glycerin house, and the machine shop. 1914 – Hamilton is connected to Toronto by the first concrete highway built in Canada, Highway 2 1915 – Procter & Gamble officially opens Hamilton plant, employing 75 workers who made six different products. 1915 – Herkimer Apartments, on the corner of Bay Street South and Herkimer Street, was the first Hamilton apartment installed with an elevator, which ran from the basement to the fifth floor. Opened in July 1915. 1916 – The Royal Connaught Hotel opened. (Construction of it started in 1914). 1917 – Gage Park opens up. 1919 – Hoover Suction Sweeper Company builds a plant in Hamilton. 1919 – Firestone Tire and Rubber Company of Canada is established. 1919 – Bay Street, derives its name from its proximity to Hamilton Harbour, which was once Burlington Bay. In 1919, a Federal Order-In-Council changed the name of Burlington Bay to Hamilton Harbour. 1919 – Civic Stadium built. 1919 – Glendale Golf & Country Club opened in Hamilton's East End 1920–1929 1920 – Hamilton gets an NHL team called the Hamilton Tigers, but then the team folds after a player's strike in 1925. Players get bought up by New York City bootleggers and the team there is named the New York Americans and become the very first pro sports team to play out of the newly built Madison Square Garden in downtown Manhattan. 1921 – Pantages Theatre opens up on King Street, (between Catharine Street and Mary Street), with a seating capacity of 3,500 made it the largest theatre in Canada at the time. Renamed The Palace Theatre in 1930. It closed down in 1972. 1921 – The city's population grows to 114,000 making it Canada's 5th largest city. 1922 – CKOC radio station starts up. Today it is the oldest radio station in English Canada; second oldest overall. On the air since May 1, 1922 1922 – Prior to the 1922–23 season, the NHL would hold its Governors meeting at the Royal Connaught Hotel on King Street, where the visiting NHL teams who came to town to play against the Hamilton Tigers stayed as well. 1922 – Beech-Nut Packing Company (makers of the Life Savers candy), establishes Canadian operations in