The Lawn of Hiram Walker - 1899
October 22, 2014
This view looking west from what is today known as the Canadian Club Brand Centre, shows some of the long lost distillery buildings. The white grain silos today sit to the rear of the taller building. Perhaps an earlier version? You can also see a bit of the Walkerville…
Ford City Bathing Beach - c 1930
October 20, 2014
Over the weekend, I found another shot of what was by then called the East Windsor Bathing Beach. Ford City was renamed East Windsor in 1929, with the arrival of the large Chrysler Factory at Drouillard & Tecumseh.
A neat photo you can see the way it was built up to…
View From The Walkerville Fire Hall - 1895
October 10, 2014
Photo courtesy SWODA
This photo appeared in “Souvenir : Windsor and Walkerville, May, 1895 : Official Programme of Grand Military Demonstration, May 24th, 25th, and 26th, 1895.” published in 1895. It is a view of Walkerville from the Fire Station looking East towards Belle Isle.
That part of town has changed a little over the years… 🙂
Have a great weekend everyone, see you…
S.W. & A Car 407 - Devonshire Rd - 1939
October 6, 2014
Photo © from the Collection of Bernie Drouillard
The above photo comes to us from the collection of Bernie Drouillard and digitized for us by John Stefani. As always a big thanks goes out to those two guys for sharing these pictures with all of us.
The picture shows car #…
Dougall Avenue Rail Overpasses - 1972
October 3, 2014
So a few weeks back, there was a post with a photo looking at the Dougall “Super-Highway” from 1931. In the comments on that thread Tom D says he was forwarding a picture showing the 3 bridges from 1972…
Here’s the image:
The Dougall/Ouellette merge…
W.E. & L.S. Railway - Car # 507 - 1939
September 29, 2014
Photo © from the Collection of Bernie Drouillard
Back in 2008 in this post, we took a look at the Windsor, Essex and Lake Shore Rapid Railway. In that post you can see the cars being shipped out of town. While the other post shows pictures from December, 1939, this one dates to August 24, 1939. This was the first car shipped to Montreal, it may have been a test sale of the one car, before they…
Red Beach - Dieppe France
September 24, 2014
A week ago, I had the opportunity to visit Dieppe, France, the site of the disastrous WWII raid that took place on August 19, 1942. The monument above, also has a twin that sits in Dieppe Park in downtown Windsor.
Red Beach was the landing site of the Essex Scottish…
British-American Oil Company Storage Plant - 1931
September 19, 2014
A notable addition to the Border’s growing industrial roster is pictured here – the $250,000 storage plant of the British-American Oil Company, Limited. It is on the Yawkey Farm tract, at Sandwich.
Does anyone know if this is where the BP storage place on…