[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Hamilton, Guelph, Kingston, Thunder Bay, Montréal

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• Hamilton has its first home made of shipping containers. Will it be the first of many? The Toronto Star reports.


• Roads and Kingdoms looks at the modern tradition of ale-brewing in Guelph.


• That the main library in Kingston is closed down until October for repairs makes me sad. I've fond memories of that place. Global News reports.


• For Canada Day, Worthwhile Canadian Initiative noted the import of the rail-and-grain exporting towns of Fort William and Port Arthur, now Thunder Bay, for Canada.


• These photographs taken of the rooms in the buildings of Petit Bourgogne, in Montréal, in the 1960s are evocative. Go here.