By Rajitha Sivakumaran
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o municipality demonstrates the
importance of location better than
Leamington, an urban centre that
sits along the most southern edge of On-
tario, overlooking Lake Erie. Being located
in the vicinity of Point Pelee National Park
doesn’t just bring in much sought after mi-
grating monarch butterflies or birdwatch-
ers from all over the world. In fact, for a
municipality bountiful in nature, Leaming-
ton is quite industrious.
This economic drive is fuelled by a zealous
thirst for growth and prosperity, but the
municipality doesn’t need to look beyond
its borders for these drivers; it already
boasts a strong footing in a number of in-
dustries, a few which are not present to
such a great extent elsewhere in Canada.
Although things have remained somewhat
stagnant in Windsor-Essex County, the
larger area to which Leamington belongs,
Mayor John Paterson professed that his
municipality is growing and that may be
attributable to Leamington’s best-kept se-
cret — the fact that the municipality sits
on the 42nd parallel, the result of which
is a wonderful growing season that allows
for a bountiful supply of all that comes out
of the ground.
Leamington has the largest concentra-
tion of commercial greenhouses in North
America, rivaling Europe, California and
Mexico. The industry is experiencing an in-
credible acceleration of growth right now,
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