Jenny's London & Southwestern Ontario
History, Architecture & Genealogy in the Forest City and Beyond
Sunday, February 20, 2022
Richard Clutton Wright Makes The Great Migration
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Historians have called the period from 1815 to 1850 the Great Migration to Canada since, during those years, over 800,000 immigrants, mainly...
The Byron Barn Blunder
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William Griffiths' barn as drawn by Louis Taylor in Nancy Tausky's Historical Sketches of London: From Site to City. Broadview Press...
Sunday, January 30, 2022
Promenade Past "The Pit"
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Walking around London allows me to notice places I'd never see when whizzing by in a car. And having so many hang-out spots closed due t...
Thursday, December 2, 2021
Wright Lithographing in the "Good Old Days"
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London Life employees pose before company headquarters ca. 1920. The building became Wright Lithographing. (From the writer's collection...
Monday, November 22, 2021
Why bother with rules anyway?
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Here it is: the proposed site of Auburn Developments' 17-storey "luxury" highrise. A development Auburn and some city councilo...
Sunday, November 7, 2021
The Lost Art of Letter Writing
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How wonderful it is to live in the technologically-advanced twenty-first century, with email, texting, and instant digital communication. It...
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Tuesday, September 7, 2021
Tombstone Tourism: Denfield (Welsh) Cemetery
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There's lots of reasons for visiting cemeteries. Some people visit the graves of loved ones to honour their memories. Others find hallow...
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