The Sifton Bog Environmentally Significant Area is a wetland jointly administered by the city of London, Ontario and the Upper Thames River Conservation Authority . It is located west of Hyde Park Road and south of Oxford Street inside the city limits of London, Southern Ontario, Canada. It is a Class 2 provincially significant wetland.
23-418: Prior to 1967 the wetland was called "Byron Bog", having been at that time within the boundaries of the village of Byron , but it was renamed following the donation of the land by the "Sifton Properties Limited". However, it had undergone a series of name changes before this time also, being variously named Foster's Bog and Redmond's Bog in the 1880s, after the occupants of the land at that time, and Spruce Bog in
46-648: A call. Upon dial introduction, 471 became the exchange prefix. However, some two or three years before 1960, the Byron Telephone Company converted its Lambeth -area customers to a dial exchange, the OLiver 2 exchange. The current boundaries of Byron are generally regarded to be the land south of the Thames River and west of Colonel Talbot Road . Recent housing developments have expanded Byron southward to Southdale Road and westward to Wickerson Road. Outside of
69-600: A parcel of land along Commissioners Road to permit Tim Hortons to build a store there. TDL Group Ltd. appealed the decision to the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB), which sided with TDL and ordered the city to permit the required rezoning. [1] Tim Hortons opened its Byron location in December 2001. Thames Valley District School Board The Thames Valley District School Board ( TVDSB ; known as English-language Public District School Board No. 11 prior to 1999 )
92-469: A voyeurism conviction. Jarvis's teaching license was revoked following his conviction. The Thames Valley District School Board was the setting of R v. Jarvis, 2019 SCC 10 a precedent-setting case of voyeurism in Canada. In 2021, Lawrence Thompson, a custodian at a TVDSB elementary school, was found guilty of four counts of kidnapping and sexual assault of a four-year-old girl. During the investigation in 2018,
115-687: Is St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Secondary School in the London District Catholic School Board, to the north across the Thames River. This school primarily serves the needs of Roman Catholic students, though, as it is publicly funded, students of any religious denomination may attend. Most secondary school age students in Byron choose to attend Saunders Secondary School in the Thames Valley District School Board in
138-719: Is a public school board in southwestern Ontario , Canada. The TVDSB serves an area over 7,000 square kilometres which includes urban, suburban and rural communities. It spans three counties and includes the cities of London , St. Thomas , and Woodstock , plus the towns of Ingersoll , Tillsonburg , and Strathroy-Caradoc , as well as several smaller towns and villages. As of 2006, the Board administered 184 schools (154 elementary and 30 secondary schools). They also provide alternative education programs for approximately 40,000 students through adult day school, continuing education, general interest, night school and summer school courses. It
161-487: Is dominated by Sphagnum and Chamaedaphne calyculata (leatherleaf), with a few short larches ( Larix laricina ) and black spruce ( Picea mariana ). The depression that houses the bog was created like many local geologic features, by the effects of glaciation. A depression in the Ingersoll Glacial Moraine was left by retreating glaciers. The result was a pocket with no drainage which developed into
184-547: Is home to Springbank Park , a picturesque urban park and the largest in London. Within Springbank Park is Storybook Gardens , a popular children's attraction open year-round. Byron also has Boler Mountain , a small co-operative that offers skiing , snowboarding , snow-tubing , and mountain bike terrains. Byron hosted two cycling events during the 2001 Canada Summer Games : the mountain biking event on Boler Mountain, and
207-442: Is situated, between 1854 and 1900. The pond is less than 1.5 m (5 ft) deep, and has a pH of around 5. On the margins are surface growths of the carnivorous bladderwort Utricularia vulgaris and water lily Nuphar advena , with sparse growths of duckweed ( Lemna minor ) and water flax-seed ( Spirodela polyrhiza ). The bog was previously used as a commercial source of sphagnum moss, an alternative to cotton gauze. It
230-422: The 1890s. The name Byron Bog was used by the 1920s, but no record exists of its Native American name. The Sifton Bog is one of the most southerly acidic bogs in Canada. It contains a number of rare species including four types of carnivorous plants. Among the latter are the sundews Drosera intermedia and Drosera rotundifolia and the purple pitcher plant Sarracenia purpurea . The central bog vegetation
253-508: The Sifton Bog. The 0.2 hectare pond at the centre of the bog, Redmond's Pond, is the remnant of what would have originally been a larger 23 hectare water body, which has gradually filled with peat over the last 10000 years. The peat layer at the centre of the bog has been measured at 18 m (60 ft). Redmond's Pond is named after the Redmond family, who owned part of the land on which the bog
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#1732845101840276-438: The Thames Valley District School Board was named as a defendant in a civil lawsuit related to the sexually inappropriate behaviour of one of its teachers, Ryan Jarvis. Jarvis filmed at least 27 teenage students with a spy camera while he was an English teacher at H. B. Beal Secondary School . He used a camera concealed in a pen to film his female students' breasts. Jarvis became the first person in Canada to serve jail time for
299-455: The Westmount suburb of London. Though they do not live within the drawing area, a number of secondary school age children from Byron currently attend Oakridge Secondary School , located in the neighbourhood of Oakridge in London. There is one private (for profit) school in Byron. This is a Montessori pre-school, located on Commissioners Road between Grand View Ave and Chestnut Hill. Byron
322-419: The area is home to 15,525 residents. The neighbourhood is considered a high-income area, with an average family income of $ 130,587 an average dwelling value of $ 312,896 and a home ownership rate of 93%. Byron was originally called Westminster, then renamed Hall's Mill, and then finally Byron; named for the poet Lord Byron . The Byron area was settled in 1800 and first became a village in 1804. Up until 1857
345-559: The area is within the constituency of London West . It is currently represented by Peggy Sattler of the New Democratic Party , first elected in 2013 and re-elected in 2014, 2018, and 2022. In London's non-partisan municipal politics, Byron lies within ward 9. It is currently represented by Councillor Anna Hopkins, first elected in 2014. There are six publicly funded elementary schools in Byron: The first three schools are under
368-489: The community was known as Hall's Mills, for Charles Hall, post master. On March 7, 1961, it was annexed by the city of London and the population grew substantially with the development of large subdivisions around the original village. Byron exists within the federal electoral district of London West . It is currently represented by Arielle Kayabaga of the Liberal Party of Canada , first elected in 2021. Provincially,
391-571: The jurisdiction of the Thames Valley District School Board and the latter three are part of the London District Catholic School Board . There are no secondary schools located in Byron (a source of some consternation to residents, as a secondary school was originally promised by the city of London when Byron was annexed). Two publicly funded secondary schools serve the needs of Byron students. The nearest
414-419: The road cycling event, where cyclists raced through the heart of the village. Byron was served until August 1960 by the Byron Telephone Company, when it was sold to Bell Canada . A manual telephone exchange continued to operate until September 15, 1963, and in 1962 or 1963, the short code 471 was introduced to London exchange customers for the convenience of immediately reaching the Byron operator to complete
437-482: The school board indicated it would fully cooperate with police and local law enforcement authorities. However, the TVDSB declined to provide a list of schools that the janitor previously worked at. In 2024, the TVDSB came under controversy for a spending scandal involving its top executives and officials regarding a $ 40,000 paid trip to a Toronto Blue Jays game. Following the controversy, the provincial government will audit
460-562: The time, Tim Horton's presence in Byron was limited to a kiosk inside the A&;P grocery store with no seating, limited hours, and a limited menu. Tim Hortons was met by bitter opposition from a small group of members of the community, which had also stopped an entry by Tim Hortons into Byron in 1998. Some members of the group claimed building a Tim Hortons would ruin the "small-town atmosphere," generating too much traffic and noise. London City Council sided with local residents and refused to rezone
483-568: The urban area, Byron is surrounded by farmland and forested areas. On the eastern border of Byron is the Byron Gravel Pit, the sixteenth-largest gravel pit in Canada. Historically, Byron also consisted of some land north of the Thames River in the area known today as Oakridge Park, including the Byron Bog (now Sifton Bog ). In 2000, Tim Hortons , which had 44 locations throughout London, sought to open its first full-service location in Byron. At
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#1732845101840506-611: Was created on January 1, 1998, by the amalgamation of the Elgin County Board of Education, The Board of Education for the City of London , Middlesex County Board of Education, and Oxford County Board of Education. Four future elementary schools in southeast London, southwest London, northwest London, west London, Lucan , Woodstock , and Belmont are currently under construction or are in planning stages. Extensions and renovations to Eagle Heights are currently underway. In 2021,
529-593: Was mined during the First World War to support the war effort and the needs of local hospitals. The Alder Buckthorn , a plant native to the bog, was harvested and used during the Second World War to produce gunpowder . Byron, Ontario Byron is a neighbourhood in the City of London , Ontario , Canada. It is adjacent to the Thames River in the south-west of London. Almost all of its residents live in low-density, single detached dwellings. As of 2011,
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