Posted Feb 9, 2009, 2:50 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Southwestern Ontario
Posts: 15,348
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Introduction
The area where Woodfield sits was surveyed in 1935-36. Although the sign says 1840, by 1855 just three large country estates
stood on the land that would become Woodfield. Significant development did not occur until the 1870s. Many of the mansions were
built in the 1890s and early 1900s.
In 1851, London's population was around 7,000. As the commercial centre of Southwestern Ontario, it grew quickly and London
became the eighth largest city in Canada for much of the Late Victorian era. By 1900, London's population was 37,976, making it
the tenth largest city in Canada, which it remains today.
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