Stratford
(2001 population 29,676) is a city
on the Avon River in Perth County,
in southwestern Ontario, Canada. Both
the city and the river were named
when it was first settled in 1832
after Stratford-upon-Avon, England,
of Shakespearean fame. It is the seat
of Perth County. Stratford was incorporated
as a town in 1859 and as a city in
1886. Originally a furniture manufacturing
city and railway junction, tourism
became a large part of the local economy
when the Stratford Shakespearean Festival
started in 1953.
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