Out where the failed town of Ojibway stands, once of the few remaining peices of the Steel Plant that was supposed to make Ojibway into the Gary, IN or Pittsburgh, PA of Canada is coming down. Another chapter in Windsor’s rich history meets the wrecking ball… Big thanks to reader Nikki for the heads up as she saw the bulldozers at work yesterday morning.
Two world wars and a great depression, effectivley killed numerous plans for the massive factory, and only a small portion of which was ever built.
The building in the process of being demolished was the old Tin Mill. Some shots of the inside can be found at Mike B.’s excellent site, here.
Here are a few shots from April 2006.
Here are some photos from yesterday, as you can see they made good progress yesterday, and before long, the building will only be a memory, much like the former Town of Ojibway.
I never knew those bulidings even existed. Thanks for the lesson. I am glad that the area didn’t become like Gary, Ind but Pittsburgh would have been interesting.
i worked there a few years ago it was called windsor ceremic tile i wonder when they closed it?
how long do you think it will be before the Chrysler minivan plant meets the same fate as Ojibway? I’m predicting two years.
Yeah, Chrysler is just dying to close its biggest and arguably most productive assembly plant.
Nice prediction George. Windsor Assembly is the last plant Chrysler would want to shut down.
yeah i highly doubt they will close that plant
i got news for joe and paul. the price of a barrel of oil closed at over $90 a barrel yesterday. That’s the highest it’s ever been and according to a group of energy analysts that were on the channel 56 newshour friday, they expect the price to hit $100 a barrel by january under the best case scenario. they said if things continue to heat up in the middle east, expect prices to jump to $150 a barrel by the middle of next year. and let’s not forget the fallout from the sub-prime mortgage fiasco in the united states. we haven’t seen the worst of that blunder according to lot of financial experts. there’s going to be a lot of pain rippling through our economy, and i doubt the average consumer will be in the mood for a new minivan when they’ve got enough trouble keeping a roof over their heads. gloat all you want but pretty soon an awful lot of card-carrying caw members over at the minivan plant will be out of work and there’s not a thing you or buzz hargrove can do about it. have a nice day.
Windsor Assembly will have its ups and downs, as it always has….. but in two years that plant will still be open, and you will still be insanely jealous of the earning power of its CAW workforce. Bank on that!
George, you’re obviously here to pick a fight with CAW members. Why don’t you direct your jealousy into a letter to the Windsor Star? They love printing that garbage. This WAS a post about lost history, and I’m sure everyone else would appreciate it if it stayed that way.
george send your anti union crap to the windsor star dont post it on here
The sky is falling, the sky is falling. Peak oil, doom, gloom, wha-wha-wha…give me a break, I’m so sick of this armageddon crap–I had to go to grade school in the 80s listening to this bullshit when it was nukes we were worried about. This is a friggin’ architecture and history site, so, please, with all do respect, shut your noise holes.
Says he after putting his two cents in first.
Don’t get me wrong… I agree with ya JT, it’s all armageddon crap and I’m glad to call bull on that, but I believe he’s entitled to his opinion, as are you and anyone else who wishes to challenge it without just saying “shut up and go away”.
Oh man, don’t get me wrong he’s absolutely entitled to his opinion–trust me, I’ve got opinions to spare myself. The point was no much “shut up and go away” as much as it was “shut up and go away…from HERE”.
“Reality is telling us to be very worried about living arrangements that can only function with copious imports of oil from people who are disgusted with us. Reality is telling us that we can’t divert our food crops into making motor fuels without becoming unable to afford either fuel or food. Reality is telling us to redirect our culture toward things-we-do-with-other people and less toward things-we-do-with other things. Reality is telling us to shift from avoidance behavior and denial to engaging with reality in order to lead lives that are consistent with reality.” -James Howard Kunstler
Have A Very Nice Day Buzz
Yeah, I knew what ya meant, JT. It’s just that you’ll never find an internet forum with comments that all cater to *your* personal vision. I disagree with 99% of what george has to say on any given topic, but censoring him won’t change what he believes in.
last time i checked this was a topic about lost history not about what James Howard Kunstler has to say.so does anyone know when windsor ceramic tile went under? a post about this topic of lost history
Paul, there are references to them on the web in business and shopping directories, including a few others that indicated it was active in the late ’80s through ???. The nice people at http://www.jobsgraveyard.org/ have been doing a good job keeping track of more recent plant closures, so I’m guessing it’s been down for at least a few years now.
well i did work at this plant becack in 2004 so it must of closed afterwards?does anyone know how big this plant was suppose to be when they wanted to make it a big steel plant back in the 20s and 30s and why they never went through with the plans after the world wars and depression and what this plant was called before it was windsor ceramic tile?
does anyone also have any information on the old toledo scale which was located at the corner of howard and ypres(it is now a medical building) like stories or pics of the building I walked around there a few weeks ago in the parking lot and saw a path leading to the back of the building my guess is thats where the trucks used to go for deliveries the path is blocked off now
Can someone please say what street and/or address this was located at instead of 19 posts about caw/chrysler nonsense.
I can’t make out any street names on that map.
Thanks.
There are no street names on that map, it’s a building.
It was on the north side of Weaver, off Ojibway Parkway. It’s still visible in a google maps but not in streetview.