I love looking at old maps of the area, and the layout for Ojibway, the town that never was. This map was made in 1919 by a Detroit property developer.
Chappus, Page, Healy, Wright and Broadway streets in the upper right corner was where the Brighton Beach neighbourhood was located, soon to be home to the new bridge. The main part of downtown Ojibway ended up becoming the Windsor Raceway. Only Ojibway Parkway today gives any reference back to what could have been.
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Love this map. I bought a house on Malden Rd (corner of Jones), and the property can be seen on this map. Very exciting. I wish to find out more about the house, and have been searching this site often. My favorite site! Anyway, an older lady down the road who grew up on this street said it used to be the Droullard house...Thanks for this site and the wonderful feed back from other readers.
I am firstborn child of a familywho lived on our small farm on Elliott Rd. , now known as Sprucewood Avenue.
Like all farm families we ate what we helped grow and tend.
We had an outhouse. Heating and cooking was with fueled stoves. Weekly l hauled our water wagon to and fromthe Sandwich West Town Hall.
I attended school wherein two rooms were used for student classes, but the third blackboarded room held pews for Church on Sundays.
Initially our home had no electricity so I studied by kerosene lamp light on the kitchen table.
I am familiar with Brunet Park sidewalks. An Uncle, Aunt and children lived in their house beside the highbanked deep and clean watered creek flowing through woodland now called Brunet Park. They hunted, grew garden, ate from their free ranged chickens, fished from bank, or took their family boat out to certain deeper waters frequented by fish.
As artist and photographer and educator, I portray our locales, so others may "path" among places, walked by lives who lived during the befores.
Here is one of my photos of a sidewalk in Brunet Park, still leading toward near where Uncle and Aunt and family lived in the bush.
~ Manidoonaateshing-ikwe / Phylmarie Fess, (Anishinaabekwe / Ojibwe woman,) Turtle Clan
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