Ingersoll, Ontario

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Coordinates: 43°02′N 80°53′W / 43.033, -80.883
Town of Ingersoll
Motto: Prosperity Through Progress^[1]

Country	Canada
Province	Ontario
County	Oxford
Established^[1]	1852 (village)
	1861 (town)
Government
- Mayor	Paul Holbrough
- Governing Body	Ingersoll Town Council
Area
- Total	12.9 km² (5 sq mi)
Elevation ^[2]	280 m (919 ft)
Population (2006)^[1]
- Total	11,760
- Density	911.9/km² (2,361.8/sq mi)
Time zone	EST (UTC-5)
- Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC-4)
Postal code span	N5C
Area code(s)	226/519
Website: www.ingersoll.ca

"Ingersoll" redirects here. For other uses, see Ingersoll (disambiguation).

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 7,300 pounds (3,311 kg) was produced at the James Harris Cheese Factory for promotion of the town's cheese industry. The "Big Cheese" was exhibited in England and in the United States at the New York State Fair in Saratoga.^[1]

Ingersoll is the hometown of Canadian author David Manicom.

Heavy manufacturing is Ingersoll's largest industry, including manufacturers such as CAMI Automotive, a 50–50 joint venture between Suzuki and General Motors of Canada Ltd..

Ingersoll is home to the annual Ribfest, a local rib cook-off with the bottled water being supplied by Macnab Ford.