52 Facts About London Ontario

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

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

Series of archaeological sites throughout southwestern London Ontario, named for the Parkhill Complex excavated near Parkhill, indicate the presence of Paleo-Indians in the area dating back approximately 11, 000 years.

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

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The Lawson Site in northwest London Ontario is an archaeological excavation and partial reconstruction of an approximately 500-year-old Neutral Iroquoian village, estimated to have been home to 2, 000 people.

Current location of London Ontario 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 Ontario 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 Ontario, which was then largely constructed of wooden buildings.

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

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

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

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

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

London Ontario annexed many of the surrounding communities in 1961, including Byron and Masonville, adding 60, 000 people and more than doubling its area.

On 1 January 1993, London Ontario 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 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 Ontario'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 Ontario, and caused over $50 million in damages, particularly in West London Ontario.

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

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

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

The largest employer in London Ontario is the London Ontario Health Sciences Centre, which employs 10, 555 people.

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

Downtown London Ontario is home to major satellite offices for each of the Big Five banks of Canada, particularly TD Bank which employees 2, 000 people, and the digital challenger bank VersaBank is headquartered in the city.

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

Notable actors born in London Ontario 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 Ontario, 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 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 Ontario in 1959 and is a heritage site.

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

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

Meanwhile, the average cost to purchase a home in London Ontario was $607, 000 in January 2021; since then increasing to $641, 072 in June 2021 according to LSTAR.

London Ontario 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.

In March 2013, London Ontario 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 Ontario field has been flooded and rebuilt twice, including a re-orientation of the bases (after the 1883 flood).

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

London Ontario 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 Ontario first published their Facilities Accessibility Design Standards which was one of the first North American municipal accessibility requirements to include Universal Design.

Statistics from police indicate that total overall crimes in London Ontario have held steady between 2010 and 2016, at roughly 24, 000 to 27, 000 incidents per year.

Research by Michael Andrew Arntfield, a police officer turned criminology professor, has determined that on a per-capita basis, London Ontario had more active serial killers than any locale in the world from 1959 to 1984.

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

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

Specific initiatives include the creation of the Old East Heritage Conservation District under Part V of the London Ontario Heritage Act, special Building Code policies and Facade Restoration Programs.

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

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

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

In June 2016, London Ontario 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.

London Ontario 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 Ontario terminal is the fourth-busiest passenger terminal in Canada.

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

City of London Ontario 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.