Stratford (Ontario)

According to the 2006 census , the city's population was 30,461 people. The city was founded in 1832 , and named after Stratford-upon-Avon , an ancient city in England. Having received the status of a city in 1859 , as well as the status of a large city ( English city ) in 1886 , Stratford began to grow rapidly. In the 19th century , a swan was approved as a symbol of the city, in honor of which four white and two black swans are released into the Avon River every year.

Originally, the city was a railway junction . In the XX century, the furniture industry was the main production of the city, the first serious strikes in the city were associated with this, when in 1933 workers led by representatives of the Communist Workers' League "Unity" protested against certain working conditions. Soon the army of Canada arrived in the city, and it crushed the uprising.

Theater Festival

C mid 1950s (for the first time in 1953) a theater festival is held in the city - the Stratford Shakespeare Theater Festival , which brings great profit to the treasury of the city and fame to the city itself far beyond Canada. The productions were attended by such Canadian celebrities of the theater scene as Alec Guinness , William Hutt , Christopher Plummer , Peter Ustinov , Dame Maggie Smith and Timothy Findley .

The festival takes place at four major theater venues in the city:

• Festival Theater
• Avon Theater
• Tom Patterson Theater
• city ​​theater studio.

Newspapers

• The Beacon Herald ,
• The stratford city gazette
• The stratford citizen

Radio

• CJCS 1240 AM ^[1]
• CHGK-FM 107.7 FM ^[2]

Education

There are three higher schools in the city:

• Stratford Central Secondary School ,
• Stratford Northwestern Secondary School ,

both are part of the Avon Maitland District School Board , and

• both parts of St. Michael's Catholic Secondary School , the only Catholic high school in Stratford.

• Justin Bieber ( born Justin Bieber ; born 1994) is a popular pop singer and actor.

The three main twin cities of Stratford are:

•   Stratford upon Avon , England , UK
•   Stratford, New Zealand
•   Stratford, Connecticut , USA