Bala

Bala is a rural cottage country town in the Muskoka region of Ontario, Canada, with a twin city in the United Kingdom, as can be seen below.

Bala, Ontario was founded by Thomas Burgess in the 1800s.

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Bala is also a market-town and urban district of Merionethshire, North Wales, at the north end of Bala Lake, 17 miles (27 km) north-east of Dolgellau, with a population (1901) of 1554 (2001 census: 1,980). It is little more than one wide street, Stryd Fawr (Welsh for 'Big Street' but more usually translated as 'High Street').

In the 18th century, it was well-known for the manufacture of flannel, stockings, gloves and hosiery. The Tower of Bala (30 ft. / 9m high by 50 ft. / 15m diameter) is a tumulus or "moat-hill", formerly thought to mark the site of a Roman camp. The theological college of the Calvinistic Methodists and the grammar school, which was founded in 1712, are the chief features, together with the statue of the Rev. Thomas Charles (1755-1814), the distinguished theological writer, to whom was largely due the foundation of the British and Foreign Bible Society.