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