Woodstock (2006 population: 35,480) is a city and the county seat of Oxford County in southwestern Ontario, Canada. Woodstock is located 128 kilometres southwest of Toronto, north off Highway 401, along the historic Thames River. It is known as the Dairy Capital of Canada and promotes itself as "The Friendly City."
The city was first settled in 1800, when it was determined by Sir John Graves Simcoe, governor of what was then known as Upper Canada, that the area would make a good townsite. Woodstock was incorporated as a town in 1851 and a city in 1901.
Vansittart Avenue (named after Admiral Henry Vansittart, an early settler) in Woodstock's west end has one of the finest residential Victorian streetscapes in the province. (...)
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