Memories of London Ontario Canada and area in pictures

East London picture. 1972.

 

Watch Eplosive demolition to the London

 Ontario via rail station in this video 

on glorious YouTube

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The carousel hotel. In London Ontario Canada in 1963.

Brief question? In connection to psalm 149:5-9 of Christianity heres a neat question for this era of humanity.

Why did the government of Canada choose to blow up the C n building referred to as the black box at almost exactly the same time that the world trade centre buildings were blown up and destroyed by the American government?

Why did this happen at technically the same time that the World trade centre buildings collapsed?

That is peculiar.

What’s that all about?

Hmmnnnn?

Dundas street and rectory circa 1980s .

Was this a government test?

To see how a building could fall if lined with 🧨 explosives?

As the Canadian government was working in cahoots with a corrupt American government 

To assist America in properly lining the world trade centre buildings with bombs in September of that year?

In order to take down the world trade

centre buildings more precisely.

The 10-storey CN Tower (often called the CN Building or "Black Box" due to its dark facade) in London, Ontario, was imploded on 

February 4, 2001. 

• Location: The building was located on York Street in downtown London, Ontario, serving as the VIA Rail station.
  
  
  
• Purpose: It was demolished to make way for a new, modernized train station facility.
• Event: The implosion occurred in the morning, with explosives placed on multiple floors to bring the structure down

Peculiar that these implosions happened at relatively the same time in humsn history in this present formation of this existence.

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A 1958 London Free Press article noted that the Gore Cemetery, on the south side of Trafalgar Street east of Hale Street, had been abandoned, neglected and vandalized for more than a decade. This cemetery began in 1834 and was the last resting place for many London Township pioneers, including William Hale, for whom Hale Street is named. William Hale was a pioneer brick maker and came to London in 1827 to make bricks for the courthouse. In 1837 he was imprisoned in the very courthouse jail, which he helped construct, when he was rounded up with scores of other district Reformers for participating in the events during the ill-fated Rebellion of 1837-8, before having his charges dropped.  He later farmed 300 acres on the northeast corner of Dundas and Highbury, until his death in 1864. His farm property was purchased as the location of the London Asylum for the Insane which was constructed in 1870.

In background of this photograph, we see homes on the north side of Trafalgar Street, and we see children climbing on the grave markers that have been gathered up just prior to construction of the cairn that now protects the remaining stones.

August 26, 1958

London Free Press Negative Collection, Western University Archives,  provided by Mike Rice.

Dundas and Richmond streets London Ontario 1965 around.

A memory of London in 1915 of Dundas and Richmond street in the link below.

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Memories of London Ontario Canada and surrounding area.

Let us begin with the following memory.

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Photo    immediately-      below —-   is    of 

Clarence street and York street bar in the wonderous year of 1960. Where queer Kenny Larouche drank booze during the wild timez of the 1960s.

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Original London public library 1895.

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Original YMCA building after fire YMCA after the fire

January 4th, 1981

Photo taken by David Bailey

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Photo below is of The inside of the London central branch library  at 370 queens avenue  in London on the ground floor.

Photo below is a picture of the Black friars bride in London taken shortly after construction of the bridge was completed.

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Photo below is of wonderous London Ontario Canada during the absolutely 

shocking rioting rootin tootin totally alarming horse and buggy days of sweet Canada!

Immediately 
Below in a link  is a memory of London Ontario Canada.

Can the reader name the time and place?

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Another memory of London is now attached in this link here below too.

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Engine 86 was manufactured by the Canadian Locomotive Company in 1910. After 48 years of service with the Grand Trunk Railway and the Canadian National Railway, it was donated to the city in 1958, commemorating London’s 100 year history as a railway centre.

 

At the peak of operations in the 1940s, nearly 4,000 Londoners worked for the CNR, the CPR, and the London and Port Stanley Railway. Most of these workers were employed in the massive repair shops near the Western Fair Grounds.

 

By the 1960s, however, consolidation of operations in cities such as Toronto and the advent of diesel engines ended London’s role as a railway centre. Although many railway jobs were lost, General Motors of Canada later came to employ thousands of Londoners manufacturing diesel engines. This Mogul 2-6-0 locomotive was originally numbered GTR 1006, became CNR 908 in 1923, and 86 in 1952. In its last years, Engine 86 was used on a mixed passenger-freight line from Owen Sound to Palmerston.

 

After its donation to the city in 1958, it was necessary to move Engine 86 one mile from the CNR shops to Queen’s Park. This was achieved by using 60-foot sections of rail, which were moved from the rear to the front as the locomotive was pulled along with a winch. It was estimated that the move would take twelve hours. But the locomotive, once capable of travelling at 60 m.p.h., took four days to reach its destination.

 

The engine became an attraction for children. The Public Utilities Commission disabled its bell after late-night ringing awakened the neighbourhood, and sealed its smoke stack after a youngster was found sitting in it.

 

Engine 86 was almost moved to St. Thomas in 1980, but public opposition to this plan has kept it here. G. M. Diesel of Canada and other local partners, restored Engine 86 during the years 1996-99.

London public Library.

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Picture above  is of London Ontario Canada around 1960.

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Regarding 

The image situated below.

IT IS BEING DEMOLISHED TODAY (JAN 12/2026): BUILT IN 1859, 

THE FORMER KENT BREWERY AND BREWMASTER’S HOUSE ON ANN ST, LONDON, ONTARIO WERE FORMALLY HERITAGE-DESIGNATED BY LONDON CITY COUNCIL IN 2022, BUT THE DEVELOPER (YORK DEVELPMENTS) APPEALED THE DESIGNATION TO THE ONTARIO LAND TRIBUNAL 

AND LATER APPLIED FOR A HERITAGE DEMOLITION PERMIT, WHICH COUNCIL APPROVED IN JUNE 2025 BY AN 11–3 VOTE WITHOUT DEBATE, REQUIRING ONLY SALVAGE AND “COMMEMORATION” RATHER THAN PRESERVATION. 

THE DECISION ENDED A YEARS-LONG HERITAGE FIGHT AND SPARKED CONTROVERSY BECAUSE IT REINFORCED PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS THAT COUNCIL PRIORITIZES LARGE DEVELOPERS OVER HERITAGE, ESPECIALLY IN A CITY WHERE INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPER-CONNECTED DONATIONS TO COUNCILLORS ARE LEGAL.

Centre theatre 391 Clarence street. London Ontario Canada. Below:::

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