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Windsor as depicted in an 1881 map of East and West Sandwich Township. From the Illustrated atlas of the Dominion of Canada. The François Baby House in downtown Windsor was built in 1812 and houses Windsor's Community Museum dedicated to local history. Windsor was the site of a battle during the 1838 Upper Canada Rebellion.
Old Sandwich Town (Olde Sandwich Towne) is located along the Canada–US border of the Detroit River, and was established in 1797. [1] It is considered one of the oldest, most historically significant settlements in Ontario [2] and has been the site of several historically significant events in Ontario's history. Many historic buildings remain ...
East Windsor is a neighbourhood that lies immediately east of Downtown and Walkerville areas but not as far east as Riverside neighbourhood. It borders Walker Road to the west, where the Windsor station (Ontario) is located at its northwestern tip, and Tecumseh Road East to the south. The eastern border is an S-curve that starts around Pillette ...
The E. C. Row Expressway is a municipal expressway in the city of Windsor, Ontario, Canada. It divides the city in half as it crosses it between the Ojibway Parkway in the west and Banwell Road in the east, a distance of 15.4 kilometres (9.6 mi). It was built between 1971 and 1983, reaching completion across the city on June 9, 1983.
Riverside is a neighbourhood on the eastern edge of Windsor, Ontario. It is best defined by the waterfront road, Riverside Drive, which runs parallel to the Detroit River . The western boundary is approximately Westminster Boulevard running easterly to Rendezvous Shores and the Windsor/Tecumseh town line.
Pages in category "History of Windsor, Ontario" ... Windsor, Ontario weeping statue This page was last edited on 19 September 2022, at 14:16 (UTC) ...
Map showing the townships of Essex County in 1881. From the Illustrated atlas of the Dominion of Canada. By the late 19th century Essex County had seen fur trading and logging, land clearing and farming, road building and railway development, saw mills and gristmills, railway stations and water ports.
Windsor was the first city to adopt Van Depoele's system, as well as the first in Canada to have any type of electric streetcar system. [6] Prior to the electric cars, a horse-drawn streetcar system had been in place since 1872. [1]