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Ambitious City 
a nickname for Hamilton, Ontario.
- 1858 (1955) The inhabitants of Hamilton call it "ambitious little city;" and its ambition is to be measured by deeds as well as by words. . . .
- 1891 It is another feather in the musical cap of the Ambitious City, and all Canada has a right to feel good over it.
- 1965 It's hard to be poor in the Ambitious City.
- 1858 (1955) The inhabitants of Hamilton call it "ambitious little city;" and its ambition is to be measured by deeds as well as by words. . . .