Western Ontario

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Image:Westont.PNG Western Ontario is a region of the Canadian province of Ontario, centred on the city of London. 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, Sarnia, St. Thomas, Stratford, and Woodstock; some definitions reach eastward to as far as Brantford, Guelph or Orangeville, but more recently these cities and towns by defition get included in the growing Greater Golden Horseshoe region. Western Ontario is geographically speaking not in the west of Ontario, but it constitutes the western portion of the original province (i.e., the south), which was first settled.

Although the name Western Ontario is used in the name of a few institutions, such as the University of Western Ontario, located in London, or the Children's Hospital of Western Ontario, the name Southwestern Ontario is more common in informal usage. Southwestern Ontario can also be used to designate the three westernmost counties (Essex, Lambton and Chatham-Kent), but London] and surrounding area are usually included as being in Southwestern Ontario.

It is a prosperous agricultural region whose chief crops are tobacco, sweetcorn, soybean, winter wheat and tomatoes. Dairy and beef farming, breeding and training of standardbred horses and Wine Growing and Production are also important industries.

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.