Town file
Strathroy, Ontario
Strathroy, Ontario (Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada) is the town in one episode of Small Town Murder, the comedy true-crime podcast: episode 54, "A Serial Slasher" (24 January 2018). Strathroy, Ontario, lies in Middlesex County about forty minutes outside London and within three hours of Buffalo, Toronto and Detroit.
- Town
- Strathroy
- County
- Middlesex County
- Region
- Ontario
- Country
- Canada
- Episodes
- 54
- Approximate location
- 42.955, -81.622
Episode 54 / 24 January 2018 / 137 min / full
A Serial Slasher
"James: 'We're going to Strathroy, Ontario, Canada... in Middlesex County', about 40 minutes outside London, Ontario; now Strathroy-Caradoc after a 2001 merger" about 0:05:49
The case: The Mad Slasher murders of (Strathroy and Mount Brydges, Ontario) (March 1974 to June 1976). Read the case file.
The figures, as told in 2018
- Median household income
- about $71.5,000 Canadian
- Median home value
- about $250,000
- Crime overall
- ▼ low
History, in brief
- The region can be traced back about 8,000 years; many of the native trails became the area's main roads. about 0:11:20
- White settlers came in 1832: John Stewart of Buchanan, with a man named Sir Michael Jacques; the Sydenham River powered a grist mill. about 0:12:58
- A general store opened in 1840. about 0:13:57
- Strathroy was incorporated as a village in 1860 and became a town in 1872, which is when it took the motto 'We advance'. about 0:14:06
- Buchanan named the town after his hometown of Strathroy in Ireland. about 0:14:36
- The town got a newspaper in 1866. about 0:14:48
- Sir Arthur Currie, commander of the Canadian forces in Europe in World War I, was born in Strathroy in 1875. about 0:14:55
- The Strathroy Furniture Company opened in 1896. about 0:15:07
- After the world wars immigration began, mainly Hungarians, Portuguese and Dutch. about 0:15:25
- The West Middlesex Memorial Arena opened in 1954; the Canadiens beat the Strathroy Rockets junior B team 14 to 3 in the game. about 0:17:06
- Strathroy is headquarters of Cuddy Farms, said to be the world's top turkey hatching company. about 0:17:18
- In 2001 Strathroy amalgamated with Caradoc; Strathroy had about 12,000 people and the merged town about 20,000. about 0:17:38
- Most of the notable people from the town are hockey players, plus a parliamentarian from the 1800s. about 0:18:11
Nearest Small Town Murder towns
- Washington Township, Michigan61 miles
- Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan77 miles
- Brownstown Township, Michigan101 miles
- Canton Township, Michigan105 miles
- Caledon, Ontario105 miles
- Hudson, Ohio119 miles
Everything here is as told in the episode, on the date it went out; figures and places may have changed since. Endings are covered: open an episode and use the spoiler switch to read them.