The Court Houses of a Century / A Brief Historical Sketch of the Court Houses of London Distict, the County of Middlesex, and County of Elgin

1800-1900.

HOUSE OF LIEUT. JAMES MUNRO, ERECTED 1798, LOT 14, CON. 5, CHARLOTTEVILLE—USED AS COURT HOUSE, LONDON DISTRICT, 1800-1802. ( Reproduced by permission of the Ontario Historical Society and William Briggs, Publisher. )
A Brief Historical Sketch of the Court Houses of the London District, the County of Middlesex and County of Elgin.
COMPILED BY KENNETH W. McKAY, COUNTY CLERK.
PUBLISHED BY THE ELGIN COUNTY COUNCIL.
With Introduction by James H. Coyne, B. A.
The Times Printing Company of St. Thomas, Limited.
1901.
In any age it is a duty which every country owes to itself, to preserve the records of the past and to honor the men and women whose lives and deeds made possible its present, and to-day when the whole civilized world is throbbing to social and political impulses of the greatest significance for the future, we ought especially to call to mind such lives and deeds and catch, if we can, inspiration for acting well the part that falls to each of us.

The Wonderful Century is before the bar of history. Its record shows everywhere progress, consolidation, expansion, improvement. Civilization has spread, barbarism has given away. Labor has been restored to its honorable station, and idleness is accounted dishonor. Privilege has been curtailed, liberty has widened its borders. Slavery has almost disappeared from the earth. The beneficent forces are stronger. The comforts and conveniences of life are increased and more evenly distributed. Disease and pain have been brought under control.