A Conversation for London, Ontario, Canada
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Clay the Exile Started conversation Oct 7, 2000
Quoting from the Rough Guide to Canada...
John Graves Simcoe arrived [in Southern Ontario] in 1792 determined to develop the wilderness.
Because of its river connections he chose the site of London as his new colonial capital,
and promptly renamed the river the Thames. Unluckily Simcoe's headlong approach irritated his
superior, Governer Dorchester, who vetoed his choice, commenting that access to
London would have to be by hot air balloon.
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