Calendars for sale this Weekend
November 15, 2013
This Saturday only, from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm, copies of the IM 2014 calendar will be available at the Border City Knits booth at the Made in Windsor Show and Sale. The calendars will only be there on Saturday (tomorrow), not tonight.
As always, they’re also available…
Walkerville General Hospital - 1928
November 13, 2013
A great old photograph of the Walkerville General Hospital shortly after opening. Better known as Metropolitan General Hospital, that building is still there hiding behind the many additions over the years.
On a side note, you may experience some delay in comments being posted to the site. As IM has grown, it’s also become filled with a decade worth of posts and comments. There are almost…
Proposed Hiram Walker Memorial - 1927
November 8, 2013
From the Border Cities Star – May 28, 1927:
Walkerville ratepayers will vote Monday on a bylaw providing for the expenditure of $10,000 to construct the memorial shown in the sketch in honor of the late Hiram Walker, founder and benefactor of the municipality. The…
Assumption High School - c. 1965
November 4, 2013
An old postcard view of the new Assumption High School, as noted on the back of the card “directed by the BASILIAN FATHERS”
My favourite part of the card is the fact that Huron Church road looks like a rinky dink little 4 lane roads with a grassy median in the…
Our Lady of the Lake - Walkerville
November 1, 2013
Continuing with the early era, edge of Walkerville churches, here today is an old postcard again about 1910, showing our Lady of the Lake church in Walkerville. Last known as Our Lady of the Rosary, the church was built in 1908 and closed in 2007, and it is currently…