‘Darth Blader,’ ‘Taylor Drift’ among Hamilton’s winning snow plow names

Hamilton has christened ten new snowplows after its 2024 naming contest, with a local sports icon and an international music superstar topping the list.

The city hosts its naming contest every year. This time it announced the lastest batch of winners on Feb. 2 following an open public poll.

This year the top ten include;

1. Snomoni Lawrence
2. Taylor Drift
3. Say it Ain’t Snow
4. Plowabunga
5. Fast & Flurrious
6. Coote’s Plowadise
7. Better Call Salt
8. Holy MackinTHAW
9. Sled Zeppelin
10. Darth Blader

This year saw a steep decline in votes, however. In 2023, more than 27,000 people voted in the naming contest but there year only a little more than 4,000 participated.

That years also resulted in ten punny names including;

1. Max Kermanator
2. Plowy McPlowface
3. CTRL-SALT-DELETE
4. Clearopathra
5. Icekee Wee Wee
6. The Big Leplowski
7. HAMBONI
8. Betty Whiteout
9. Mr. Plow
10. Plowasaurus