Western Ontario is a region of Ontario centred on London, Ontario. It extends north to south from Lake Huron to Lake Erie, and east to west roughly from Kitchener to Windsor. Other cities in the region are Ingersoll, St. Thomas, Stratford, and Woodstock. Western Ontario is not strictly speaking in the west of Ontario, but it is in the west of the part of the original province (the south) which was first settled.
The three westernmost counties (Essex, Lambton and Chatham-Kent) are also commonly grouped as the region of Southwestern Ontario.
Much of Western Ontario was part of the Talbot Settlement, and the region has benefited from the Settlement's facilitation of agriculture and of trade in general.
Southwestern Ontario is a region of the Canadian province of Ontario, centred on the city of London.
WesternOntario was so called because until Ontario expanded in 1912 to incorporate Northern Ontario it was the westernmost part of the most populated section of the province.
Southwestern Ontario is a prosperous agricultural region whose chief crops are tobacco, sweetcorn, soybean, winter wheat and tomatoes.
The University of WesternOntario is one of Canada's oldest universities, having been founded in 1878 by Bishop Isaac Hellmuth and the Anglican Diocese of Huron as "The Western University of London Ontario".
The University of WesternOntario Debating Society, the oldest student association at the university and one of the largest and most respected university debating societies in Canada.
The Western Indo-Canadian Students Association (WICSA) is the largest south Asian student's association in North America and host to the annual WICSA culture show, where students from all across North America compete in south Asian dance routines.
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