49 Facts About London ON

London ON is a city in southwestern Ontario, Canada, along the Quebec City–Windsor Corridor.

The city of London ON is politically separate from Middlesex County, though it remains the county seat.

Since then, London ON has grown to be the largest southwestern Ontario municipality and Canada's 11th largest metropolitan area, having annexed many of the smaller communities that surround it.

London ON is a regional centre of healthcare and education, being home to the University of Western Ontario, Fanshawe College, and three major hospitals: Victoria Hospital, University Hospital and St Joseph's Hospital.

London ON was named for the British capital of London ON by John Graves Simcoe, who named the local river the Thames, in 1793.

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Just prior to European settlement, the London ON area was the site of several Attawandaron, Odawa, and Ojibwe villages.

London ON is situated on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabeg, One Anishinaabe community site was described as located near the forks of Thames River in circa 1690 and was referred to as Pahkatequayang .

Current location of London ON was selected as the site of the future capital of Upper Canada in 1793 by Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe, who named the village which was founded in 1826.

London ON was part of the Talbot Settlement, named for Colonel Thomas Talbot, the chief administrator of the area, who oversaw the land surveying and built the first government buildings for the administration of the western Ontario peninsular region.

London ON proved a centre of strong Tory support during the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837, notwithstanding a brief rebellion led by Charles Duncombe.

On 13 April 1845, a fire destroyed much of London ON, which was then largely constructed of wooden buildings.

One fifth of London ON was destroyed in the province's first million-dollar fire.

London ON had a fire company, a theatre, a large Gothic church, nine other churches or chapels, and two market buildings.

London ON's eastern suburb, London ON East, was an industrial centre, which incorporated in 1874.

The southern suburb of London ON, including Wortley Village, was collectively known as "London ON South".

In 1905, the London ON Armoury was built and housed the First Hussars until 1975.

On 1 January 1993, London ON annexed nearly the entire township of Westminster, a large, primarily rural municipality directly south of the city, including the police village of Lambeth.

The City of London ON is currently the eleventh-largest urban area in Canada, eleventh-largest census metropolitan area in Canada, and the sixth-largest city in Ontario.

At the time, London ON's population was relatively low; therefore it was hard to find a person in the city who did not have a family member affected by the tragedy.

The second major flood, on 26 April 1937, destroyed more than a thousand houses across London ON, and caused over $50 million in damages, particularly in West London ON.

On 11 December 2020, a partially-constructed apartment building just off of Wonderland Road in southwest London ON collapsed, killing two people and injuring at least four others.

Victoria Park in downtown London ON is a major centre of community events, attracting an estimated 1 million visitors per year.

London ON's economy is dominated by medical research, financial services, manufacturing, and information technology.

For example, Info-Tech Research Group's London ON office is in a hosiery factory, and Arcane Digital moved into a 1930s industrial building in 2015.

Galleria London ON then begun seeking non-retail tenants, becoming the home for London ON's central library branch, and satellite campuses for both Fanshawe College and Western University.

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Notable actors born in London ON include Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, Victor Garber, Hume Cronyn, Michael McManus, and director Paul Haggis.

Guy Lombardo, the internationally acclaimed Big-Band leader, was born in London ON, as was jazz musician Rob McConnell, country music legend Tommy Hunter, singer-songwriter Meaghan Smith, pop icon Justin Bieber, the heavy metal band Kittie, film composer Trevor Morris, and DJ duo Loud Luxury; it is the adopted hometown of hip-hop artist Shad Kabango, rock-music producer Jack Richardson, and 1960s folk-funk band Motherlode.

London ON is home to the Museum of Ontario Archaeology, owned and operated by Western University; it is Canada's only ongoing excavation and partial reconstruction of a prehistoric village—in this case, a Neutral Nation village.

The entire property was donated to the city of London ON in 1959 and is a heritage site.

London ON is the site of the Flame of Hope, which is intended to burn until a cure for diabetes is discovered.

London ON is home to the Grand Theatre, a professional proscenium arch theatre in Central London ON.

London ON serves as a core setting in Southern Ontario Gothic literature, most notably in the works of James Reaney.

London ON has nine major parks and gardens throughout the city, many of which run along the Thames River and are interconnected by a series of pedestrian and bike paths, known as the Thames Valley Parkway.

London ON is the home of the London ON Knights of the Ontario Hockey League, who play at the Budweiser Gardens.

In March 2013, London ON hosted the 2013 World Figure Skating Championships.

Labatt Memorial Park the world's oldest continuously used baseball grounds was established as Tecumseh Park in 1877; it was renamed in 1937, because the London ON field has been flooded and rebuilt twice, including a re-orientation of the bases .

London ON is home to World Seikido, the governing body of a martial art called Seikido which was developed in London ON in 1987.

London ON was the first city in Canada to decide to move a ranked choice ballot for municipal elections starting in 2018.

In 2001, the City of London ON first published their Facilities Accessibility Design Standards which was one of the first North American municipal accessibility requirements to include Universal Design.

Some went unidentified, but known killers in London ON included Russell Maurice Johnson, Gerald Thomas Archer, and Christian Magee.

London ON has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder.

London ON is home to heritage properties representing a variety of architectural styles, including Queen Anne, Art Deco, Modern, and Brutalist.

London ON is at the junction of Highway 401 that connects the city to Toronto and Windsor, and Highway 402 to Sarnia.

Since the 1970s, London ON has improved urban road alignments that eliminated "jogs" in established traffic patterns over 19th-century street misalignments.

In June 2016, London ON unveiled its first bike corrals, which replace parking for one vehicle with fourteen bicycle parking spaces, and fix-it stations, which provide cyclists with simple tools and a bicycle pump, throughout the city.

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London ON is on the Canadian National Railway main line between Toronto and Chicago and the Canadian Pacific Railway main line between Toronto and Detroit.

Via Rail's London ON terminal is the fourth-busiest passenger terminal in Canada.

In 2009, London ON was the seventh-busiest Greyhound Canada terminal in terms of passengers, At one point, service was available from London ON throughout southwestern Ontario and through to the American cities of Detroit, Michigan and Chicago, Illinois.

City of London ON has assessed the entire length of the Veterans Memorial Parkway, identifying areas where interchanges can be constructed, grade separations can occur, and where cul-de-sacs can be placed.