The Hamilton Files

[Some Final Observations: - by Walter David Falk]

After the last messages from Dr. Hamilton in 1944, Lillian continued to work on the messages already received.  She spent time finding references to various aspects of the notes from R. L. Stevenson and David Livingstone and so on.  This was a long and laborious process and was never completed.

Lillian continued to work at this until her death in 1956.  There are many more letters in the notes, than are given here,  that refer to this time and the loneliness she sometimes felt in Winnipeg separated from her only daughter.

Glen Hamilton continued his medical career in Winnipeg and used the old Hamilton house as one of his offices.  Nothing is said about whether he had a secretary during these years, but he probably did.

Jim Hamilton first earned his degree in Physics and later also qualified in Medicine and practiced medicine in Eastern Canada until his death.  Many more details of the lives of these two Hamilton men are found in the letters of the Hamilton notes.  These have not been included in this abbreviated version of the notes but can be found in the longer versions.

Margaret continued the work after Lillian died and wrote a book entitled "Is Survival a Fact?" which was published after Lillian's death.  After that she continued to work on an even later version of the notes entitled "If These Walls Could Speak"

She never seems to have progressed beyond an outline for the book and the first few chapters, of which there are several versions resulting from several separate attempts. 

Margaret moved from 185 Kelvin, which became 185 Henderson Highway when the Disraeli Freeway was constructed.  She moved into an apartment farther north along Henderson Highway.  She died in 1986.

The Hamilton home, in which the most exhaustive experiments in the world were done in the various aspects of psychic phenomena and the most complete records of these experiments kept, still overlooks Hespeler along which the depression dust storms of the 20's swept so long ago; and the very small seance room upstairs is, as of August, 2010, still there, although now it is a small office.  The hot water register from the heating system still has its place between the two large windows facing east

The complete set of images of the Hamilton Files can be copied along with the transcriptions in several word processing files of the entire Hamilton Files.  These comprise two DVD discs and may be obtained from the University of Manitoba.  The images can be viewed on any image viewer on the computer and the transcribed files may be viewed in WordPerfect, MicroSoft Word, or in .pdf format. 

Anyone desiring to do research work on the Hamilton Files can now do so without extensive travel.

This project would not have been possible without the generous assistance of the University of Manitoba, and especial thanks goes to Dr. Shelley Sweeney of the Special Collections Archives of the Elizabeth Dafoe Library.  Support has been unfailing and extended to the burning of the original scans of the Hamilton Photos for my use in this present project and the YouTube videos.  That in itself was a major project.

These original scans are available for viewing online at:

www.umanitoba.ca/libraries/archives/hamilton.shtml

I began the work of photographing the collection in the spring of 2004 and finished the transcription on August 30, 2010.

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Walter D. Falk.