The Canadian Directory of Water Towers and Standpipes is sponsored by "Understanding Your Home" Dundas - Ontario Annexed by Hamilton. Photo © Mark Visser Tower Information. Signage: Dundas. Location: 27 Sutter Crescent. Built: 1969. Capacity: 2,840,000 liters. Height: 37 meters. Compare the size of this tower with the five workers on the scaffolding Water source: Lake Ontario. The tower was repainted in 2006 but it's appearance did not change.   Area information. Dundas is a community and former town in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It is nicknamed the Valley Town because of its topographical location at the bottom of the Niagara Escarpment on the Western edge of Lake Ontario. Notable events are the Buskerfest in early June, and the Dundas Cactus Festival in August. The town of Dundas was named after Dundas Street, which itself was named by John Graves Simcoe, Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada [until 1798, for his friend Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, a Scottish lawyer and politician who never visited North America. Prior to being called "Dundas," the town was called Coote's Paradise, and was renamed Dundas in 1814. Wikipedia   Home   Ontario - D index