Hilda Mae Binns
Hilda May Binns (née Torok, later Longmate ; October 20, 1945–August 4, 2022 ) was a Canadian Paralympic athlete who competed in athletics and swimming events. Biography Binns was born in Hamilton, Ontario In 1945 and contracted polio in 1955. Her father built her an exercise bike to help her rehabilitation. Binns won two gold medals at the 1968 Summer Paralympics, held in Tel Aviv. She was a founder of Steel City Wheelers, and involved with the Hamilton Post Polio Association and the Hamilton Handicapped Club. Hilda May Torok married fellow polio survivor and athlete David Binns by 1973. Honors She was inducted into the Hamilton Gallery of Distinction in 2018, and into the Hamilton Sports Hall of Fame in 2019. On 14 May 2021, Jovian asteroid 28958 Binns, discovered by astronomers with the LINEAR Linearity is the property of a mathematical relationship (''function'') that can be graphically represented as a straight line. Linearity is closely related to '' pr ...
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Hamilton, Ontario
Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Hamilton has a population of 569,353, and its census metropolitan area, which includes Burlington and Grimsby, has a population of 785,184. The city is approximately southwest of Toronto in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA). Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, the town of Hamilton became the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe. On January 1, 2001, the current boundaries of Hamilton were created through the amalgamation of the original city with other municipalities of the Regional Municipality of Hamilton–Wentworth. Residents of the city are known as Hamiltonians. Traditionally, the local economy has been led by the steel and heavy manufacturing industries. During the 2010s, a shift toward the service sector occurred, such as health and sciences. Hamilton is ho ...
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