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Encyclopedia > Thamesville, Ontario

Thamesville is a small town located at the old junction of Highways 2 and 21, now local roads and a road between Chatham and London in Ontario, Canada. Its name comes from the Thames River that flows nearby and the suffix -ville. It has a very small downtown with many notable restaurants and stores. Students here get bussed to Dresden, Ontario for Secondary Education (Lambton Kent Composite School). Thamesville has one Public Elementary School (Thamesville Area Central School), and one Catholic Elementary School (The Good Shepherd) Highway 2 was the major east-west provincial highway in Southern Ontario, running from Windsor in the west to the Lancaster in the east and joining together the towns and cities of the western two thirds of the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor. ... Categories: Stub | Cities in Ontario | Ontario counties and regions ... Nickname: Location of London in relation to Middlesex County and the Province of Ontario Coordinates: Country Canada Province Ontario County Middlesex County Settled 1826 as a village Incorporated 1855 as a city Government  - City Mayor Anne Marie DeCicco-Best  - Governing Body London City Council  - MPs Sue Barnes (LPC) Glen Pearson... Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Latin: Loyal she began, loyal she remains) Capital Toronto Largest city Toronto Official languages English Government - Lieutenant-Governor James K. Bartleman - Premier Dalton McGuinty (Liberal) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament - House seats 106 - Senate seats 24 Confederation July 1, 1867 (1st) Area Ranked 4th... The Thames River is located in southwestern Ontario, Canada. ... Look up Suffix in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Dresden, Ontario is a town in the southwestern part of the Canadian province of Ontario. ...


Geography

  • Population:1000
  • Location:Crossroads of Old Hwy 2 and 21
    • Latitude: around 42 (49°) N
    • Longitude: around 82 (86°) W
  • Postal code: N0P 2K0
  • Elevation: about 200 or 220 m
  • Dialing code: +1-519-692

A Canadian postal code is a string of six characters that forms part of a postal address in Canada. ... Area code 519 is an area code that covers almost all of southwestern Ontario. ...

Personalities

William Robertson Davies, CC, FRSC, FRSL (born August 28, 1913, at Thamesville, Ontario, and died December 2, 1995 at Orangeville, Ontario) was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. ...

External links

  • Thamesville on Chatham-Kent Community Portal

Coordinates: 42°33′N, 81°58′W Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...


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Robertson Davies - MSN Encarta (236 words)
His fiction is concerned primarily with the survival of the human spirit in his characters, who quest for their own place in the world while trying not to hurt others.
Born William Robertson Davies in Thamesville, Ontario, he was educated at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and at Balliol College, University of Oxford, in Oxford, England.
Later he became an actor; the editor and publisher of the Examiner (Peterborough, Ontario) from 1942 to 1962; and a professor of English at the University of Toronto from 1960 to 1981.
TSB Reports - Rail 1999 - R99H0007 (17650 words)
All railway employees working in the vicinity of Thamesville on 23 April 1999 were interviewed by the TSB in the conduct of the investigation and all were cooperative and forthright.
Train control in areas such as Thamesville is such that, once a work train receives authority to operate in a designated area, it is the crew's task to restore switches to normal and to permit the passing of any through traffic, sometimes with certain restrictions.
At Thamesville, the reported timing of the restoration of the east crossover switch was before the tail-end car of the movement completely cleared the west crossover switch.
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