Things to do in London
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Museum London
Focusing on the visual arts and how they fit together with history, Museum London has over 5000 works of art (including the largest collection of Paul Peel paintings) and an artifact collection of over 25,000 pieces. Exhibitions and programming are created around the stories of artifacts, and outdoor installations carry the stories beyond the walls. Also on-site is Eldon House, London’s oldest residence, which places you in the past rather than attempting to describe it.
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Ska-Nah-Doht Village & Museum
Re-creating a 1000-year-old Iroquois longhouse community, Ska-Nah-Doht Iroquoian Village & Museum is 32km west of London. Village structures are encircled by a maze; the museum contains artifacts thousands of years old and recounts the area’s history. Outside the walls are First Nations crops and burial platforms. Meandering park trails are open until dusk. From London, take Hwy 402 to interchange 86 then follow Hwy 2 west.
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Banting House National Historic Site
This historic site is where Nobel Prize–winner Sir Frederick Banting devised the method for extracting insulin in the 1920s. A pilgrimage site for diabetics, the meticulously curated museum outlines the history of diabetes, and chronicles Banting’s medical contributions.
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Bertoldi’s Trattoria
A massive place with a massive wine list, Bertoldi’s does authentic Italian and also has special regional menus (we can’t think of an Italian region whose cuisine we wouldn’t want to taste). It doesn’t take reservations but you can phone ahead on the weekends.
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Covent Garden
This humongous, barn-shaped market will whet and satisfy any appetite. There’s a permanent collection of delis, bakeries, chocolate shops, fresh produce stalls and world cuisine eateries, plus seasonal vendors and a sunny, busker-fuelled buzz on the patio.
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Honest Lawyer
Is there such a thing? Maybe not, but it’s a sure-fire conversation starter at this long, narrow beer room where an upbeat crowd is usually knocking back a few. Student specials, wing nights, big-screen sports and live music on the weekends.
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Thaifoon
Classing Dundas St up a bit is Thaifoon. A calm, composed atmosphere and babbling water features provide relief from the mean streets, while chili-laden curries, stir-fries, soups and salads provide a kick in the pants.
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Royal Canadian Regiment Museum
Inside the austere Wolseley Hall, the Royal Canadian Regiment Museum focuses on the oldest infantry regiment in Canada, with displays covering the North-West Rebellion of 1885 through both world wars to the Korean War.
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Fanshawe Pioneer Village
Explore London’s history at the 30-building Fanshawe Pioneer Village on the eastern edge of town. Costumed blacksmiths, farmers and craftspeople carry out their duties in true 19th-century pioneer-village style.
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Museum of Ontario Archaeology
An educational and research facility affiliated with the University of Western Ontario, the Museum of Ontario Archaeology displays materials and artifacts spanning 11,000 years of aboriginal history in Ontario.
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Sifton Bog
Sifton Bog is a peaty acid bog off Oxford St W that’s home to unusual plants and animals, including lemmings, shrews, carnivorous sundew plants, white-tailed deer and nine varieties of orchid.
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London Music Club
Touring blues and folks acts fall over themselves to play here, a rockin’ room out the back of a cream-brick suburban house. Electric blues jam on Thursday nights; acoustic open mic on Fridays.
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Westminster Ponds
Westminster Ponds is an area of woods, bogs and ponds sustaining a veritable zoo of creatures, including fox, turtles and herons.
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CEEPS
For reliable good times, head to this student-flavored party bar. Live bands, DJs, pool tables, shuffleboard, local beers on tap – hard to beat.
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Lawson Prehistoric Indian Village
Lawson Prehistoric Indian Village is an active excavation of a 500-year-old village next to the Museum of Ontario Archaeology.
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Sammy’s Souvlaki
Bump elbows with taxi drivers and late-night beery hordes at Sammy’s, serving take-out souvlaki, falafels, poutine, burgers and hot dogs. Burp…
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Up on Carling
A stylish, martini-soaked affair, spinning Latin, R&B, funk house and soul. Dress code enforced.
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