Sticking with “The Township of Sandwich” and with Chippawa Street in the west end, I noticed this old photo. It’s captioned:
Interesting to note, at some time in the last century the spelling of the street changed from Chippewa to Chippawa….
The book also has the following info:
The “Hon. John A. Wilkinson Homestead” on Chippewa Street, built around the year 1818 or shortly after the war of 1812. The material for this house was brough from Montreal by Mr. Wilkinson. It was at this house that Dr. John James Hume called professionally and afterwards spend the night socially with Mr. Wilkinson and family the evening before he was murdered by rebels in Windsor, December 4, 1838.
I wonder if Col. Wilkinson was the father (or some other relation) of George Wilkinson of Wilkinson’s Shoes, longtime downtown retail fixture.
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this looks like the home I grew up in on Chippewa St. it looks like an addition was added to the house..its the only one shaped like that on the street others were smaller...my grandfather lived on one side and my Dad his son rented the other side from him..the one we lived in was located down the end of the street away from the River closer to
Harris and Bloomfield Rd.
the home was over 100 years old...bathrooms had to be added they were added to back of both sides...
My Grandfather(Rabideau) bought a home in 1919 from my Grandmothers father who was a Laforet...
if this is the home and it sure looks like it the porch was closed in to make it a closed in porch...
I would like to delve into this to see who bought it in early 1900's
unfortunately the home was bulldozed a few years ago for two town homes to replace it. Mary Ann (nee Rabideau)
the home we lived in was 556 Chippewa St.
Mary Ann, you have the exact same name as my Mother.
We were from the west end too.