Ojibway Tornado – June 17, 1946

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• Don't know that man but I do know that tornado...

  This Tornado has always been a big part of my family. My Grandma, Uncle and Dad had just arrived in Windsor to be with my Grandpa. They had only been here a couple of weeks when they were hit. They lived just behind Devonshire Mall and my Grandpa went to close the window and saw the trains blowing over on the tracks at the round house. On the 60th anniversary of this tornado CBC played a radio clip. My Dad heard it on his way back to the truck yard. Much to his shock they had interviewed my Grandma *the little war bride* Mrs. Wheeler. Here is a link to the CBC clip.
  http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/environment/extreme-weather/deadly-skies-canadas-most-destructive-tornadoes/1946-windsor-tornado.html

  My Dad has his account of the storm on his webpage.
  http://www.essexwheelers.ca/Bigwinds1.html

• He looks like Charlie Sheen lol.

• I think he looks like Thurston Howell III. Or TH3, as he would be called these days.

• I remember the Jones family in Ojibway lost many mambers of the famuly, I thbk the father was one of the survivors ...I am not sure if the is him in the picture.

• Corliss - Just looked up the family. The last surviving son just pasted away a few years ago. His Obit. says that his Mom, Dad and 3 of his 6 siblings were lost in the tornado... so it's not the Dad.

• uzzy I was thinking the same thing he seems to have a look on his face like are we in Kansas???

• I used to work with a chap by the name of Ken Jones at Loomis Armoured Car in Windsor. He told me a story of loosing his family to a tornado in the west end of windsor in the 1940's, would this be the same Jones family?

• This is very creepy. My grandma and I were just talking about this tornado last weekend. She said her dad moved her whole family from Brighton Beach to her new place in Windsor ONE DAY before this Tornado struck.
  Her dad went back the next day after that and saw his original house completely destroyed.
  His son and four daughters along with he and his wife would likely not have survived, and I wouldn't be here to write this little note along with many of my kin!!

• We students stood at the windows of St Mary's Academy and watched it hurdle towards us and then veer away. The city was largely without power for over a week. I remember my mother lighting a fire in the basement furnace and try to boil some water so she and my grandmother could have tea. It didnt work.

• My mother's cousins were killed in that Tornado. John N. Jones (Father), Sadie Jones (Mother), as well as Frances, Harold and Marvin Jones. The father died 10 days after the tornado hit. So sad. It's amazing that you can still find broadcasts of the event on the Internet