Cycling in Stump City, Formerly Forest City

by | Apr 21, 2025 | News

This plaque honoured the City of London’s commitment plant trees and create the “Forest City. The irony is that the plaque now rests amongst a complete cutting down of almost all the trees at the forks of the river Thames in downtown London Ontario.

While cycling this weekend my friends eventually rode into the “forks of the Thames” as the popular area where citizens are encouraged to meet in the downtown of the City of London Ontario. When we arrived we were horrified to see the destruction, not by weather events, or Canadian beavers, or even war or pestilence. The trees that had been placed by a previous administration to commemorate London as the “Forest City” were all cut down. One of my friends appropriately remarked “This is no longer the Forest City, we are now Stump City”.

This view, looking south along the walking paths of The Forks in downtown London, Ontario shows the stumps of the trees that were cut down, obviously through the City’s approval,

It is an example of the destruction that the City puts on itself for no logical reason and without citizen knowledge or approval. An area that was pleasant for cyclists to meet will now be a wasteland as the City prepares another grand project similar to the disasters of the past.