Celebrate 150 - City of London Ontario Canada


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	Celebrate 150 Legacy Items

	• Celebrate 150 Commissioned Orchestral Piece - Forest City Prelude - world premier on October 20

	• 100 Fascinating Londoners Book, co-edited by Michael Baker and Hilary Bates Neary

	• Hume Cronyn Film Festival

	• Christopher Plummer Gala

	• London 150 Film Series

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Check out this website for up to date information on the City’s celebratory events throughout the year.

Runs throughout the fall of
2005

On the Beat
opens at Museum London
A Tribute to 150 years of service for London Police Services

On The Beat follows the Service’s development from a small force of constables keeping the peace with wooden batons to a technologically equipped and highly mobile force trained in the prevention and detecting of crime. On The Beat will include many artifacts collected by the Service over past several years as well as loans from veterans and members of the Service and will include photos from The University of Western Ontario Archives, the London Free Press and Museum London.
The exhibition will complement an illustrated history of the Service to be launched in October.
Produced in partnership with the London Police Service
Funded by the Ontario Trillium Foundation
Curated by Mike Baker, Curator of Regional History

^{Patrol Wagon 1923 Left to right:
P.C. Walter Harpur,

Sgt. John Mackey (driver), P.C. Chester (Chess) Langford,
unidentified, London Free Press photograph, University of Western
Ontario Archives}

Saturday December 3 and Sunday December 4

The London Singers Celebrate 150! featuring
Beethoven Mass in C - Plus Beethoven's Hallelulujah Chorus from the Mount of Olivers, Mercy Me's I can Only Imagine, Michael W. Smith's Healing Rain, Paul Halley's United in Song, and other solo and choral favourites! This concert is a special collaboration of musicians from the London Community (the London Singers), university (UWO), high school (H.B. Beal Singers and Catholic Central Concert Choir) Also contributing to the performance are many churches and soloists from the London area.
The music will be performed with full orchestra in the acoustic splendor of historic Dundas Centre United Church.

Saturday December 3rd at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday December 4 at 3 p.m.
For more information contact Ruth Thachuk at (519) 667-1686.

Thursday December 1 to Sunday December 4

A 'Grand Avenue Christmas' a Victorian Holiday Showcase
in support of Orchestra London at

Waverly Mansion and Idlewyld Inn.
Advance Tickets $8 ($10 at the door)
Visit two of London's most splendid Victorian mansions, decked out in their sumptuous best for the holidays!
Daily Afternoon Tea and Saturday evening 'Dickens Dinner' at Idlewyld Inn (Reservations required)
For more information call 679-8778 (Orchestra London) or 667-1381 (Waverly Mansion
A 'Grand Avenue' Christmas is a participating event in Christmas in the Village, Saturday December 3, in Wortley Village.

Sunday
December 11

Children’s Christmas Party at
Eldon House Sunday, December 11,
1:00 - 4:00 pm

Drop in for games, Christmas crafts, music, treats and all the Christmas highlights of Eldon House. Father Christmas will also make an appearance.
Admission is $1.00 per person at the door.

Wednesday
December 14

Canada Club of London
Celebrate 150 Special Luncheon featuring
Christopher Doty - Historian, Filmmaker, and Playwright
Hotel Hilton - noon to 2 p.m.
Luncheon and speaker $20 members and $25 non-members
Register online at www.canadiancluboflondon.com or
by calling Andrea Halwa, President at 471-6369

December 27
to December 30

London Views and Memorabilia

In recognition of the approaching end of the 150th Anniversary of the City of London, Doug Flood at the Guy Lombardo Music Centre is displaying a wide assortment of London ephemera most of it drawn from Doug's own collection. Included are multiple volumes of vintage London post cards arranged by theme and location. Each of these has been enlarged for easier viewing. Included also are various yearbooks from Old Boys Reunions, vintage advertisements from London and area business and books related to London's history. An opportunity to glimpse London as it was, and, enjoy as well "the sweetest music this side of heaven."

Where: The Guy Lombardo Music Centre - 205 Wonderland Road South

When: December 27-30; 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Admission: Free (for a donation of $10 or more donors will receive a complimentary music c.d.)

Runs until end of December 2005

Westmount Shopping Centre
will continue their mural and banner project entitled 150 Years of Living in London. This exhibit coordinated by Wendi Waters of LaLaland has involved many artists, photo historians and faces from London.