Identifier: cu31924028900798 (find matches)
Title: City of London, Ontaro, Canada. The pioneer period and the London of to-day
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Bremner, Archibald, 1849-
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Publisher: London, Ont. : London Printing & Lithographing Co.
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Jt.iltX CHKlSTIi;. wv. Elijah Liconabd, Mayor 1857. (Sec Senators, page 132.) JOIIV CAMPBELL,_ 1872..80-8L C. S. Hyman, Mayor 188L (See M. P.s, page 131.) EX-MAYORS OF LONDON. tem. London was connected with the Grand for freight and passengers, but soon gave Trunk in the building of that road westward place to a brick structure which is still stand- from Toronto, in 1859, but the London branch ing and used as a mercantile ■warehouse, was what is known in railroad parlance as a The location was inconvenient, however, and ONTARIO, CANADA. 121 the passenger station was removed to an old then became the central point of a railway wooden shed at the junction of Bathurst and system radiating to the four cardinal points -BurweJl streets with the Hamilton Road, of the compass, and for all practical purposes ims was destroyed by fire in 1872, and was to the whole thirty-two points. In 1887 the
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.lA.MKS COW.VN 1.SM7 HX. J. W. Little, Mayor 1895-96-97. (See page 122.) J. D. Wilson, Mayor 1898-99. (See page 123.) BX-MAYOBS OF LONDON. replaced by a neat brick structure, subse- Canadian Pacific Railroad entered London, quently abandoned on the amalgamation of and thus gave us a direct line on Canadian the Grand Trunk with the Great Western, soil to the whole Northwestern Provinces andThis fusion took place in 1882, and London (continued on page 123.) 122 CITY OF LONDON, EX-MAYOR J. W. LITTLE. A glance over the minutes of the Councilproceedings for the three-years term duringwhich Mr. J. W. Little occupied the office ofChief Magistrate of the city, 1895-6-7, showsa record worthy of preservation. It is notpretended, of course, that Mr. Little, unaided,carried out all the changes and improvementsby his individual efforts, nor would he desirethat such an impression should be conveyed.He always had a loyal Council at his back tofurther his suggestions. All the minor mat-ters of the re

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