A constituent has emailed me after my post about the Canadian elections last week (24th January), asking why Canada Road and Canada Crescent in East Acton ward are so named.
Canada Road was named in 1925, following the building of company houses there by the Canadian company Mond Nickel (now Inco). These houses were for employees at their precious metals refinery opened the previous year in Bashley Road in Park Royal. The Inco refinery still thrives on the same site (also in East Acton ward), employing around 120 local people. It’s now one the one of the world’s major refineries of platinum-group metals – platinum, palladium, rhodium, ruthenium and iridium, as well as gold and silver. I know from reports at the Park Royal Partnership that it is now also increasingly involved in recycling.
I posted last week that none the Canadians towns called Acton elected one of the 29 MPs for Labour’s Canadian sister party, the New Democratic Party (NDP). However, Ealing in Ontario did. Ealing is part of the London Fanshawe constituency gained by the NDP’s Irene Mathyysen. The story goes that the town is called Ealing because it’s roughly the same distance from the centre of London Ontario as Ealing is from the centre of London (Charing Cross). The Ealing Public School has a brief history of the school and town at http://www.tvdsb.on.ca/ealing/ealinghistory.htm
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