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Windsor From The Transfer Steamer - 1882

April 3, 2013
The engraving above appeared in the book “Picturesque Canada” published in 1882. While the engraving doesn’t indicate what boat it was, the “transfer steamers” were the rail ferries. Some of the earlier ones were well equipped to moved passengers as well as cargo. The ship as it appears in the engraving was probably very similar to, if not in fact the Great Western…
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Motor Vehicle Permits - Adie Knox Herman

February 15, 2013
Rounding out transportation week, here are a couple of interesting bits of local history that appeared on Ebay back about a decade ago. The vehicle permits for Adie Knox Herman, wife of W.F. Herman, namesake of the high school and one time publisher of the Windsor Star, from…
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Trams & Ferries

February 13, 2013
More paper ephemera today from the vaults at IM HQ. Sticking with the transportation theme of the other day… Here are three different and interesting tickets. 1. S.W. & A Railway streetcar ticket from Windsor to Tecumseh. Regional transportation existed, only we…
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Pares Village Secondary School - Pares, Antigua

September 26, 2011
A while back architect Doug Johnson told me about a project he designed in 1965, and how there is a building he designed, but has never seen. As part of a foreign aid program, a secondary school was designed here in Windsor, by local architects, and was built in Pares…
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We Are Not Alone...

January 28, 2009
A little bit of a change today, as I send you over to a site I recently stumbled across. It’s always nice to know that we’re not alone, and not the only community who’s suffering though needless demolitions. A few photos from Vanishing St. Louis: Demolition of a commercial storefront row on Vandeventer at Enright in December 2008. It was one of the last remaining original…
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