Stratford homes, street by street.

A railway town dreamed big and the world showed up: the Stratford Festival is billed as North America's largest classical repertory theatre, and the city around it matches the performance, swans on the Avon, Victorian streets of inns and gardens, and a food scene fed straight from Perth County farms. Culture, heritage, and small-city warmth, all in one place. Stratford grew from Little Thames, a market centre settled in 1832 and named, like its river, after Stratford-upon-Avon in England. The railway arrived in the 1850s, Stratford became a town in 1859 and a city in 1886, and the Festival's first season opened on July 13, 1953. Housing runs from homes built before 1961 in the Downtown Core, Romeo Ward and Shakespeare Ward, through a mix of older and 1960s and 1970s streets in Avon, Falstaff and Hamlet wards and 1980s and 1990s streets in John Street South, to newer homes in Romeo Street North, Avon West and Coventry.