Old Photographs

3232 Sandwich Street - Then & Now

May 1, 2022
Photo from 2005 Sorting through some older photographs this weekend, and I came across a folder of pictures I took in Sandwich back in 2005. The image above being one of them. The building with the white siding façade was certainly non-descript and wasn’t adding anything to the streetscape. Image from Google Streetview That makes the renovation of the building, and the…
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Lauzon & Wyandotte - 1958

April 18, 2022
Image from SWODA A view today from the old Town of Riverside, taken May 1, 1958. This shot is looking east along Wyandotte Street East, towards the intersection of Lauzon Road. Looks much less busy than that intersection does today. There’s still a gas station on…
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The Auditorium Building - 709 Ouellette

April 3, 2022
Image from SWODA This building located at 709 Ouellette was known as the Auditorium Building. When first built around 1927, the Knights of Columbus had a clubhouse to the rear and built this as an annex and auditorium. Eventually the clubhouse was torn down and a larger Knights of Columbus Hall was built on the Pelissier site , connected to this building. Image from SWODA Originally…
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4195 Seminole - Former Caribbean Centre

March 27, 2022
This building at 4195 Seminole is currently undergoing some work. The renovations have uncovered the old sign for when this was the Caribbean Centre. The Caribbean Centre was located here from about 1976 though 1992, before it moved to its current home on Central Avenue.
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Canada Square - 1965

March 13, 2022
Proposed Canada Square Development – 1965 Back in 1965 a Toronto architectural firm of K. R. Cooper & Associates drew up plans for the Canada Square Development that was supposed to be built along the river at Riverside Drive West & Church Street. The…
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435 Mill Street - 1957

March 7, 2022
Image from SWODA This picture shows the south west corner of Mill & Baby streets in Sandwich in May 1957. This little building was owned by the Sandwich, Windsor & Amherstburg Railway (SW&A), the forerunner of today’s Transit Windsor. It started out as a ticket office and waiting room for the streetcars, and by this point in time had become a drivers exchange room, where buses…
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Park & Pelissier - 1961

February 28, 2022
Image from SWODA From the great collection over at the Southwestern Ontario Digital Archive comes this image taken in February 1961. Looking north west to the corner of Park Street West and Pelissier. Visible on the left is the long gone Norton Palmer Hotel, and an Esso…
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St Michael and All Angels Church 1960

February 20, 2022
Located on Jerome Street in Riverside just to the east of the Riverside High School, is this proposed church building from October 1960. The building was designed by Windsor architect J P Thomson Associates. The building was built but with a few modifications to the…