Ingersoll Info

Ingersoll (2006 population 11,760) is a town in Oxford County on the Thames River in southwestern Ontario, Canada. The nearest city is Woodstock, Ontario to the east, with Tillsonburg, Ontario to the south and London to the west.
Ingersoll is situated north and near Highway 401. Oxford County Road 119 (formerly Ontario Highway 19) serves the town. The local high school is Ingersoll District Collegiate Institute.
The town was founded by Thomas Ingersoll (Laura Secord's father) as Oxford-on-the-Thames. The town was later renamed Ingersoll in his honour.
The area was well known for cheese production, and was home to the first such factory in Canada from approximately 1840. In 1866, a giant block of cheese weighing 7,300ꀀpounds (3,311ꀀkg) was produced at the James Harris Cheese Factory for promotion of the town's cheese industry. The \ ...