St. Thomas History
The name of the man St. Thomas is named for.
Who is Thomas Talbot?
The St. Thomas factory that made roller bearings.
What is Timken?
The name of the other elephant who was also injured on the night of Jumbo's death.
Who is Tom Thumb?
The only secondary school in Dutton/Dunwich Township.
What is West Elgin Secondary School?
The largest town located in Elgin County.
What is Aylmer?
The residential and commercial core of Thames Centre.
What is Dorchester?
The founder of the city of St. Thomas
Who is Daniel Rapelje?
The large automobile assembly plant located north of Talbotville.
What was the St. Thomas Ford Assembly Plant?
The city and the country where Jumbo lived in the years before coming to North America.
What was London, England?
The port community within Elgin County that is located a few minutes south of Rodney.
What is Port Glasgow?
The lakeside community with a nuclear-powered submarine as its major tourist attraction.
What is Port Burwell?
When exiting the 401 this community appears on the exit sign alongside Belmont.
What is Nilestown?
The RCAF Technical Training Centre was established temporarily in 1935 on the site of this hospital.
What is the St. Thomas Psychiatric Hospital?
The International Girls School in St. Thomas that burned to the ground.
What is Alma College?
The skeleton of this famous pachyderm is located in the American Museum of Natural History in this city.
What is New York City?
This West Elgin Community was originally named Bismarck.
What is West Lorne?
The historical and original name of Aylmer.
What is Troy?
The river that runs through Dorchester.
What is the Thames River?
The Elgin County MPP who became the youngest premier of Ontario at the age of 37.
Who is Mitch Hepburn?
A public course in St. Thomas that was open to all golfers before Walmart, Superstore and other "box stores" were built on the site.
What was the St. Thomas Public Golf Course or Talbot Park Golf Course?
The St. Thomas mayor at the time the pachyderm monument was erected.
Who was Doug Tarry?
A famous scholar and economic advisor to JFK (John Fitzgerald Kennedy), born in Iona Station.
Who is John Kenneth Galbraith?
The creek that flows into Lake Erie through Bayham Township.
What is Big Otter Creek?
The second largest community in the municipality of Thames Centre.
What is Thorndale?
The local history room at the St. Thomas Public Library is named for this high school principal.
Who is George Thorman?
A famous dance hall in Port Stanley from 1926 to 1978.
What is the Stork Club?
The year of Jumbo's death.
What is 1885?
This resident of West Elgin was awarded the Victoria Cross because of gallantry in the face of the enemy at the battle of Vimy Ridge.
Who is Ellis Wellwood Sifton?
This plant which , at its peak, had 800 employees, closed in 2007 due to the science linking lung cancer to smoking.
What is Imperial Tobacco?
The name of the event in Dorchester when fiddlers and steppers from all over the province and the North Eastern United States come to compete every summer.
What is the Donnybrook Fiddle and Step Dance Competition?