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London summary
London is a city in Southwestern Ontario, Canada along the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor with a metropolitan area population of 457,720; the city proper had a
population of 352,395 in the 2006 Canadian census.
London is the seat of Middlesex County, at the forks of the non-navigable Thames River, approximately halfway between Toronto, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan.
London and the surrounding area (roughly, the territory between Kitchener-Waterloo and Windsor) is collectively known as Southwestern Ontario. The City of London
is a single-tier municipality, politically separate from Middlesex County though it remains the official county seat.
London was first settled by Europeans in 1826 and was incorporated as a city on July 1, 1855. Since then, London has grown into the largest Southwestern Ontario
municipality and the city has developed a strong focus towards education, health care, tourism, manufacturing, economic leadership and prosperity.
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London's economy is dominated by locomotive and military vehicle production, insurance, and information technology; the London Life insurance company was founded
there, and Electro-Motive Diesels, Inc. (formerly General Motors' Electro-Motive Division) now builds all its locomotives in London. General Dynamics Land Systems
also builds armoured personnel carriers there. London also is a source of life sciences and biotechnology related research; much of this is spurred on by the
University of Western Ontario. The headquarters of the Canadian division of 3M are located in London and both the Labatt and Carling breweries were founded here.
Kellogg's also has a major factory in London. Thanks to a $223 million expansion that started in 1984, Kellogg Canada's 106,000 mē London plant is one of the most
technologically advanced cereal manufacturing facilities within the Kellogg Company. A portion of the population of the city work in factories outside of the city
limits, including Ford and the joint General Motors Suzuki automotive plant CAMI, with further potential in a future Toyota plant in Woodstock.
In 1999 the Western Fair Association introduced slot machines. Currently, 750 slot machines operate at the fair grounds year-round.
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London's downtown mall, the Galleria in recent years has suffered after the collapse of Eatons and the Hudson Bay Company moving out of the mall. Currently the large
spaces which were left empty by the departure of Eatons and the Bay have been replaced by London's central library which now resides in that space. Other sections of
the Galleria have also lost businesses and have been replaced by information centres for London's major post-secondary education schools, Fanshawe College and the
University of Western Ontario. Some have accused London's extensive suburban malls and suburban expansion for causing business to be moving to the suburbs instead
of remaining downtown.
For many years, London has been deemed a "test market" for Canada. International companies have used London to introduce their products and companies into Canada.
They use London because, it is considered the average Canadian city.
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