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Clarke Monuments - 1044 Howard Avenue

August 20, 2023
Here’s one that’s a more recently lost piece of Windsor History. This small block building on Howard, just south of Erie Street, stood from the early 1920s until about 2020. For most of a century this was the home to D Clarke Monuments, a gravestone maker that was conveniently located near to Windsor Grove Cemetery at Howard & Gilles. Don Clarke, the proprietor of the…
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Drouillard Road - c 1928

July 30, 2023
Photo above from the collection of the Windsor Public Library A shot taken around 1928 on the east side of Drouillard in between what is today Whelpton & Trenton streets. A pair of architecturally interesting buildings here, both lost to time. Oddly the building to…
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St Clare School

June 4, 2023
Located at Bruce & Shepard, the St Clare School was designed by Windsor architect Gilbert J P Jacques & Co., and opened in 1922. By the late 1960s the Separate School board was looking at options to either renovate or replace the old school building. After a lot…
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Col Prince Home Demolition - 1966

April 16, 2023
A bit of history to fall Demolition for historic building By BOB SUTTON A historic link with the Battle of Windsor is being demolished. It is the convent of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd at Maryvale Vocational School, 940 Prince Rd., once the home of Col. John Prince who commanded the Sandwich militia on the morning of Dec. 4, 1838. Prince and his guest Dr. Hume were eating…
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Elmcourt Country Club - 1926

January 15, 2023
Founded in 1921, the Elmcourt Country Club was founded at the same time as the Walkerville Tennis Club, by a split and division of the old Walkerville Country Club. The club was incorporated in June, 1921 and quickly gained 450 members before opening in August, 1921. The…
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Fisher Body Plant - 1926

January 8, 2023
A view of the Fisher Body Plant in Ford City. The factory was located at the south west corner of Edna & St Luke. Following its run as a Fisher Body plant in the early 1930s, the building went through a number of uses over the years, before becoming home to Complete Packaging. In November 1987, the building was torched by an arsonist, and in one of Windsor’s largest fires the entire…
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Park Theatre - Ottawa Street & Moy Avenue

December 11, 2022
In December 1939, Famous Player had their staff architect Jay Isadore English draw up plans for a new Windsor neighbourhood theatre. The theatre was announced with a main floor seating 641 people, and a balcony holding another 150 for a total capacity of 791. Given its…