#LoveLockeDay brings crowds to southwest Hamilton street

Thousands of Hamiltonians and a few residents of Toronto have flocked to Hamilton’s Locke St. South in the City’s southwest quadrant Saturday to show support for merchants after last weekend’s anarchist convulsion. It’s called #LoveLockeDay. The street has a long history, dating from the 1840s before the community was incorporated. The high-minded name appears to come from John Locke, the 17th Century English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the “Father of Liberalism.” Quite a long way from anarchism.