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Important Notice

January 17, 2007
I caught this notice in Today’s Windsor Star: Working Together For Our Community’s Future -Our People Based Community Strategic Plan The City of Windsor is engaging the community through a series of ward workshops to complete our Community Strategic Plan and to assist City Council to shape their priorities for their four-year term of Council. Meetings for this people based City plan…
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Brighton Beach Through The Years

January 17, 2007
As readers of this website in its previous life might remember there was a large section on the Brighton Beach neighborhood in Windsor’s West End. Over the last decade the area has been slowly decimated by the City of Windsor, who have been busy buying/expropriating…
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Assumption Cemetery

January 10, 2007
At the corner of Wyandotte St. W. and Huron Church, surrounded by the Ambassador Bridge is Assumption Cemetery. This is the early Roman Catholic cemetery for the Windsor area. A google search turned up this brief history of the cemetery: At its present site, the Assumption Cemetery (located at the intersection of Wyandotte St. West and Huron Church Rd.) was established in 1859, when then-Bishop…
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911 Prado

January 9, 2007
While out a few weeks ago with readers John and Mike, I spied this 1920’s era beauty on Prado south of Wyandotte. [EDIT – I’ve just recieved confimation that the home was built in 1930] I am a sucker for clinker bricks. While impossible to verify, due to…
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Odds and Ends...

January 8, 2007
Here are some historic photos from the International Metropolis Archives. This one is for reader Brian who asked about the Henkel House. The photo is captioned “Robert Henkel House”, 1913. Chrysler Canada Plant # 3 – 1933 Chrysler Canada Plant # 1…
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Frank H. Joyce House

January 4, 2007
This grand structure at 3975 Riverside Dr. East in Windsor is the reason for the latest battle in heritage preservation on the Windsor side of the river. The home which has served as the convent of the Sisters of Saint Joseph since 1953 was put up for sale. The building, with ties to the early days of the automotive industry sits on a massive lot fronting Riverside Dr and the Detroit River. As…
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Impending Demolition

January 3, 2007
Over on Windsor’s west side, there is an impending demolition brewing. On Sunset Avenue there is a small grouping of five houses. A small remnant of of how the area once looked before the University of Windsor Moved in. Many other Universities seem to have a habit of…
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2006 - The Year In Review

January 2, 2007
As I have been doing for the last several years (the 2005 Review is here, 2004, 2003), I try to recap the buildings that have been lost over the past year, and present them as a summary. This house in Windsor went up in flames to an arsonist early in the Summer of 2006.