[5] Of the ten census tracts with the highest Canadian-born populations, nine were in London, with the other being Cambridge West.

[8] Britain, and especially London, for a long time served as the metropole to Canadians of British ancestry — as it did to other English-speaking people across the Commonwealth —the centre of their cultural and economic world where the ambitious would go to advance their careers on the biggest stage.

[9][10] Hamar Greenwood was a Canadian-born politician who served as a cabinet minister in the Lloyd George ministry.

Bonar Law was a Canadian-born politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and additionally held many other government offices including Secretary of State for the Colonies, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lord Privy Seal.

Lord Beaverbrook was a Canadian-born businessman and politician who served as a cabinet minister in the Churchill ministry during the Second World War.