Officer of that Regiment. LCol The Hon. Isaac Buchanan commanded the 13th from 28 Nov 1862 until 30 Dec 1864. The XIIIth Battalion is known today as The Royal Hamilton Light Infantry (Wentworth Regiment). 1864 – First Board of Trade – Hon. Isaac Buchanan, President. 27 churches and 77 taverns in the city. 1867 – Confederation of Canada. 1868 – Hottest day ever recorded in Hamilton as the thermometer hits 41.4 °C 1869 – On Wednesday, November 3, 1869, in a room above George Lee's Fruit Store, the Hamilton Football Club was formed. Hamilton Football Clubs have captured the Grey Cup in every decade of the 20th century, a feat matched in pro sport by only one other franchise, the Montreal Canadiens. 1870–1879 1870–1870s decade; Confederation era Hamilton boosters lose a commercial and financial edge to Toronto and consciously shift to the economic strategy of attracting industry. 1870 – Daily temperature published. 1872 – The Nine-Hour Movement is born, Hamilton unionists urge government to limit working hours to nine per day. 1872 – the Bank of Hamilton was established. It lasted until 1924. The Bank of Hamilton merged with The Commerce (later to become the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, or CIBC) on January 2, 1924. It was one of the last surviving banks in Canada that was not headquartered in Toronto or Montreal. 1873 – The Hamilton Football Club played its first game against the recently formed Toronto Argonauts, which the Argonauts won. It was in that game that the Hamilton players first wore their colours of yellow and black. Hamilton won the rematch the following Saturday, and it was in the reporting of that game that they were first referred to as the Tigers. 1874 – The Hamilton Street Railway (HSR) began offering horse-drawn public transportation. 1876 – First time all the Irish gathered together in Hamilton to celebrate March 17 – St. Patrick's day. 1877 – June 20, 1877 – First commercial telephone service (Fire Department) in Canada began in Hamilton, Ontario. Hugh Cossart Baker Jr. learned of Alexander Graham Bell's invention in 1877 at the Philadelphia International Exposition and from there decided to test the communication tool in Hamilton. 1877 – Robert Smiley, the founding publisher of The Spectator, sold the newspaper to William Southam in 1877 as the first link in the Southam newspaper chain. 1877 – Hamilton population at 32,641. 1878 – The first