Cheiron Capital Management

Posted on December 21, 2011 by Admin
Cheiron Capital Management

Cheiron Capital Management

Chris Ecklund, President and CEO of Ecklund Marketing Group and founder of Hamilton The City of Waterfalls movement documented 126 waterfalls within the Hamilton, Ontario area. In addition to the very visible Waterfalls Bus and family vacation packages, "Hamilton the City of Waterfalls" also provides guided Waterfalls Walks many along the Bruce Trail or many of its connecting side trails.

For years only a handful of people realized what tremendous natural beauty resided in Hamilton's 126 waterfalls. However today through efforts of people like Chris Ecklund the word is getting out. Ecklund's research shows that Hamilton has the largest concentration of waterfalls in the world.

As the Niagara Escarpment follows the elbow of Lake Ontario into Hamilton it enters a highly urban area making its preservation more critical. Locally, this portion of the escarpment is known as "The Mountain".

Most of the falls are managed by the Hamilton Conservation Authority in 12 escarpment parks. The area falls within the Carolian Canada zone, which extends from Lake Erie, Lake Ontario to Lake Huron and is home to trees, plants, birds and animals usually found in the Carolinas. It is not uncommon to spot a possum or a magnolia tree within this area.

Among the 126 waterfalls catalogued are the Devils Punch Bowl, Battlefield, Felker's, Albion, Buttermilk, Chedoke, Lower Tiffany, Upper Tiffany (also known as Washboard Falls), Sherman Falls (also known as Fairy), Mill, Hermitage, Mineral Springs, Steven's, Webster's, Tew's, Sydenham, and Borer's Falls.

Devil's Punch Bowl

The first stop is the aptly-named Devil's Punch Bowl. Although it has a narrow crest line of three metres (m) (11 ft), the Devil's Punch Bowl plunges 10 storeys, 34 metres (m) or more than 100 ft. into a deep gorge of stunning, reddish-brown sedimentary rock. The punch bowl structure was formed 16,000 years ago by erosion caused by the glacier's receding from the Lake Ontario basin.