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Swell Swimming (or Not)
23 June 2015 - 5:56pm90 years ago in late June 1925, municipal swimming pools in London began to provide free bathing suits to children without them.
Traffic Towers on Dundas Street
9 May 2015 - 12:42pm90 years ago on May 20th, 1925, London's first red-amber-green traffic signal system went into service.
From Shoebox Index Cards to Scanned Images
5 May 2015 - 7:43pm64 years ago on May 16, 1951, a card index of 35 drawers containing the names of 35,000 historical dates, events, people and places of Southwestern Ontario was presented to the London Public Library Board
Cead Mile Failte: A Hundred Thousand Welcomes!!
14 March 2015 - 10:31am180 years ago, a formal St. Patrick's Day dinner was held in London at the Mansion House Hotel
London's Oldest Organization for Women?
5 March 2015 - 6:05pmChocolate, Love and London
13 February 2015 - 3:38pm
One evening in July 1891, widower Cy Warman walked his girlfriend, Myrtle Marie Jones,