Found this interesting advertisement in the 1959 International Freedom Festival Program.
Much of the area was to be part of the huge steel plant at Ojibway which never came to be. Ojibway was amalgamated into Windsor in the mid 1960’s.
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So glad this area never became a “Zug Island” kind of place.
It came so close…
I can remember every winter my dad would take us to look at what ships were there as a number of the lakes freighters would layover for the winter in the slip in the photo, while there they would have work done to them by locate companies. You could drive right up to them from the Sandwich St. side as the gate was always open and no guard.
The Town of Ojibway and the original Town of LaSalle were both folded into Sandwich West township when they went bankrupt, not Windsor. Windsor city limits ended at or around Totten Road until Windsor annexed a large part of Sandwich West – “south Windsor” on January 1, 1966 (along with the Town of Riverside and Sandwich East Township). When the annexation took place, the city limits on the west of Howard Avenue followed Highway 3 northwest to a line somewhere between Bondy Street and the Fourteenth Street right of way. That boundary extends into the Ojibway Prairie and then drops south to Sprucewood Avenue halfway between Malden and Matchette. The boundary then extends south along Matchette Road and finally west along Morton Drive to the river. The intersections of Sprucewood and Matchette, and Morton and Matchette actually lie within the Town of LaSalle. The Coco golf-o-miniums at the southwest corner of Sprucewood and Matchette lie within the City of Windsor, but are only accessible through the Town of LaSalle. I have actually witnessed Windsor fire trucks responding to calls there, coming all way along Cabana, Todd, Malden, Sprucewood and Matchette, when the LaSalle fire station is less than half the distance away. Long story short, the original Town of Ojibway lies partially within the City of Windsor and partially within the modern day Town of LaSalle. Vive LaSalle Libre!