Neighbourhoods of Windsor, Ontario
It encompasses several city blocks bordered by the Detroit River to the North, Giles Boulevard to the south, the CPR/CN yards to the west and the Casino and the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel to the east.
The neighbourhood's boundaries are Giles Boulevard/Ontario Street to the north, Walker Road to the east, Howard Avenue to the west, and the Essex Terminal Railway line to the south.
It began as a model community for the workers of the Hiram Walker distillery, home of Canadian Club Whisky.
It is also home to the Devonshire Manor, (also known as the Low-Martin House) where Canada's 22nd prime minister, Paul Martin, grew up.
It has a rich history of serving Canada in both world wars and for putting on exceptional musicals and plays.
The Town of Walkerville was founded by Hiram Walker in 1858 and was one of the five border cities until it was amalgamated with Windsor (despite a no-vote by the populace) in 1935.
This area of Windsor is known for its scenic parks and trails which include some of the highest percentage of urban green space in the region.
The eastern border is an S-curve that starts around Pillette Road by the river and curves southeast with the CN tracks to Jefferson Blvd.
Ford City used to be a part of the much larger East End but was recently designated as its own historic neighbourhood.
It consists of homes built mainly from the 1950s and 1960s, along with a large public housing townhouse complex along Rivard Avenue, Queen Elizabeth Drive, and Grand Boulevard.
The area is serviced by Transit Windsor's Crosstown 2 route, providing access to much of the city.
Currently, it is used as a commuter thoroughfare but there are discussions in City Council to create bike lanes, speed restrictions, and roundabouts at various intersections to deter through traffic.
It is the location of the Brighton Beach Generating Station on the shores of the Detroit River, and was the Canadian landfall of the 1946 Windsor–Tecumseh tornado of June 17, 1946.
Morton Industrial Park is situated along the Detroit River, next to the LaSalle town limits.
Row Expressway in the west and north to Huron Church Road in the east, and Windsor City Limits in the south.
This neighbourhood is very proud of its rich and diverse history, having murals on many buildings' sides that show people, events, and buildings of the past, such as Ms. B. McKewan Arnold, the great-niece of the famous Benedict Arnold, founding a hospital/nursing station in Sandwich, and of how slaves fled from the southern United States and the Confederate States to freedom in Sandwich through the Underground Railroad before slavery was abolished.
Sandwich Methodist Church was notably served by the controversial Reverend J. O. L. Spracklin, who was tried and acquitted of manslaughter after shooting a liquor trader in 1920.
The neighbourhood contains many abandoned houses, including a long stretch on the east side of Indian Road.
While neighbourhoods with a high concentration of vacant houses are a common phenomenon in nearby Detroit, they are very rarely found in Canadian cities, even those that have experienced large population decreases.
[citation needed] However, the neighbourhood still maintains the former County Courthouse and municipal building and current community centre, Mackenzie Hall (built in 1855) by Alexander MacKenzie, the second Prime Minister of Canada, the Duff-Baby House (built in 1798) and a multi-purpose building which houses General Brock Public School, a Windsor Police Department precinct, and a branch of the Windsor Public Library and all at its famous "Bedford Square" (intersection of Brock Street and Sandwich Street).
One of Windsor's main thoroughfares connecting the north and south ends of the city is Dominion Boulevard.
Today, homes are all along this street and there is increasing development into the old woodlots on both the east and west sides of Dominion.
West Windsor incorporates the built-up areas and neighbourhoods in a triangle from the Essex Terminal Railway, to Huron Church Road, to E.C.
It is largely rural, although the Detroit River International Crossing Study { DRIC } identifies it as the projected route of a multilane expressway.
Devonshire Heights is a development in Windsor's south end begun in the late 1970s and recently completed.
Remington Park was originally a town and farming area in Sandwich East Township before it was amalgamated with the city of Windsor, Ontario.
In the 1980s the area expanded to include developing into the farming land to the east of Parent Avenue up to Walker Road.
Roseland is a neighbourhood in the southern tip of Windsor bordered by Cabana Road West/East to the north, the Rt.
Many homes in the neighbourhood were built prior to the Second World War on very large, spacious lots.
The area is mainly farmland, but includes Windsor Airport and Highway 401 as well as some residential development.
