Name the Plow

The City of Hamilton is excited to launch the first annual NAME THE PLOW initiative – your opportunity to quite literally name a Hamilton snowplow! Our Transportation Operations & Maintenance team is looking to name 10 of our snow clearing vehicles this winter season, and need your help to come up with the most creative names possible.

Thank you Hamilton for the thousands of submissions that came in during our survey earlier in December - staff have gone through the entries and have selected the below 20 submissions for final voting by the public. The 20 were selected by how frequently they were submitted, if they were fun, family-friendly and have a connection to Hamilton or to snow and winter.

The Name the Plow initiative is all in good fun, but snow clearing in Hamilton in serious business. With each upcoming winter weather event, City of Hamilton road crews are responsible for clearing approximately 6,518 lane kilometres of roadway, 866 kilometres of sidewalks, 244 kilometres of on-street bike lanes and 2,365 bus stops across Hamilton. To do it, the City of Hamilton has 77 City plows, 115 contracted pieces of plowing equipment and 34 sidewalk plows.

Name the Plow Winners

Thank you to everyone who participated in our Name the Plow contest. Throughout the voting period, we received a whopping 28,339 votes across all the plow names!

Winning 10 names and number of votes:

• Max Kermanator -18723
• Plowy McPlowface - 2167
• CTRL-SALT-DELETE - 1139
• Clearopathra - 868
• Icekee Wee Wee - 845
• The Big Leplowski - 664
• HAMBONI - 630
• Betty Whiteout - 496
• Mr. Plow - 403
• Plowasaurus - 340

Winter Driving and Snow Plow Safety Tips

Check out our Winter Driving and Snow Plow Safety tips at Hamilton.ca/WinterDriving and keep an eye on our plows with Plow Tracker and Sidewalk Plow Tracker!

For more information about how we work, visit Hamilton.ca/Snow.