Streetcar 351 - Still Around
June 12, 2015
Photo © 2015 John Stefani, used with permission
As promised on Wednesday, here’s a few photos of a recently uncovered streetcar at an undisclosed location in Essex County. When streetcars ended their reign at the end of the 1930’s many of the cars were older…
St Mary's - Ouellette Ave - 1920
May 27, 2015
Here’s an old shot of St Mary’s Academy that was located on Ouellette Ave, south of Park St. St Mary’s stood downtown until the construction of the Tunnel came along, and the order sold the land to Fred Martin and his tunnel company, and they then relocated…
One Fare - Walkerville & Detroit Ferry Co - c 1925
April 10, 2015
To close out this mini series of posts of old transit tickets, is this one for the Walkerville – Detroit ferry. The Walkerville – Detroit ferry was established by the Walker’s to ease getting to their distillery. The journey from the Windsor Ferry Docks to the distillery in Walkerville was one that Hiram Walker felt was too long and too difficult. So the ferry to Walkerville was…
Good For One Ride - S.W & A - c. 1910
April 8, 2015
Going back a few decades before last week’s ticket post, gives us this one shown above. A much older ticket for one ride o the Sandwich, Windsor & Amherstburg Railway. Hopefully one day we’ll be easily able to get around Essex County by transit once…
Windsor to Tecumseh - One Fare - c. 1930
April 1, 2015
I’m still amazed at what an extensive travel network we once had all over Essex County, what equally amazing is how this little tiny bits of history, like old transit tickets survived all these years…
Have a great long weekend everyone!
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Windsor Machine & Tool Works' New Addition - 1917
March 20, 2015
This building was located at 86-88 Pitt St W. This Tool and Machine show saw rapid growth from its founding in a barn on site in 1911, through the third addition shown above in 1917. The building was located on Pitt, between Church and Bruce. In 1937 the building was occupied by G & M Automatic Machine Co. Ltd.
The building shown above was designed by Windsor architect J.C. Pennington.
Have a…
End Of The Line For 839
March 13, 2015
Back in 2001, I took a few shots of a great old house at 839 Assumption. Signs pointed to it being built about 1906, although I suspect it was about 10-15 years older. A well worn, old inner-city home.
It sold cheap in the summer of 2007….
It was horribly remodeled…