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The citizens of LONDON , 125km
west of Hamilton, are justifiably proud of their clean streets,
efficient transport system and neat suburbs, but to the outsider
the main attractions are the leafiness of the centre and the city's
two music festivals in late June and July - the
nine-day Royal Canadian Big Band Festival (tel 519/663-9467) and
the three-day Home County Folk Music Festival (tel 519/432-4310).
London owes its existence to the governor of Upper Canada, John
Graves Simcoe , who arrived in 1792 determined to develop
the wilderness north of Lake Ontario. Because of its river connections
to the west and south, he chose the site of London as his new
colonial capital and promptly renamed its river the Thames. Unluckily,
Simcoe's headlong approach to his new job irritated his superior,
Governor Dorchester, who vetoed his choice with the wry comment
that access to London would have to be by hot-air balloon. When
York (present-day Toronto), was chosen as the capital instead,
Simcoe's chosen site lay empty until 1826, yet by the 1880s London
was firmly established as the economic and administrative centre
of a prosperous agricultural area. With a population of some 326,000,
it remains so today.
