London the Forest City

London, pop. 378,000, may be a major manufacturing centre for southwestern Ontario, founded in 1793. This city is nicknamed as the Forest City London has an abundance of urban parks and many woodlands. In the pioneer times travellers would find London as a cleared area within the middle of an enormous forest which had to be travelled through to succeed in the town. Visitors today will perceive London as a treed area within the middle of cleared land, it's surrounded by farming now. Early in its history it had been considered as a possible site for the capital city of Upper Canada, but that title eventually visited York (later Toronto). The city is roughly rectangular in shape approximately 16 km from east to west and 13 km from north to south.

Most cities including many towns and followed by counties and rivers during this area of Southwestern Ontario take their names from their counterparts in England and London is not any exception. London features landmarks like Picadilly Street the Covent Garden Market and therefore the Thames. Due to above reason many people use movers London to shift from one place to another to enjoy the beautiful city.

In the 1920s London-born Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians hit the U.S. music scene and went on to realize legendary fame. London's Wonderland Gardens later became a big-band hotspot in 1935 - being situated on the Thames river where Guy Lombardo developed his love for speedboat racing by racing his father's small motorized boat on the Thames behind the Labatt Brewing Company.

With 2 major hospitals, London is a regional medical center, treating patients from up to 200km away. London also has the region's only university (The University of Western Ontario) which has all the typical professional schools (business, law, medicine, engineering) as well as sciences and the arts. Since the city is also home to Fanshawe College, students comprise a significant percentage of London's population during the school year.