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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.
West Windsor incorporates the built-up areas and neighbourhoods in a triangle from the Essex Terminal Railway, to Huron Church Road, to E.C. Row Expressway. Its population is roughly 20,000 people. It is also occasionally listed as "Malden" in maps containing neighbourhoods, from the large Malden Park inside it.
The road network in Windsor, Ontario is a grid system with elongated blocks, generally aligned with the Detroit River, with East-West roads running parallel to it, and North-South streets running perpendicular (90 Degrees) to it. This is an adoption from when French Canadian settlers first built farms and streets in the area.
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.
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).
Windsor station is a train station in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. It is the western terminus of Via Rail 's Quebec City–Windsor Corridor . It is located in the Walkerville neighbourhood adjacent to the Hiram Walker distillery, near the Detroit River .
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The MTO took advantage of this opportunity to extend Highway 401 to the Canada–US border and began an environmental impact assessment on the entire project in late 2005. [175] The City of Windsor also hired New York traffic consultant Sam Schwartz to design a parkway to the border.