Back when I was in high school at General Amherst, a lot of field trips were geared toward seeing how the business world works. One particular trip in high school some of us went to the stock exchanges in Windsor and Detroit while other students were took a tour of what it was like to …
My mom was born in Windsor and grew up here but she was always a bit of a Detroitophile. Once a month on a Saturday she’d load up the kids and the coolers and we’d drive across the Ambassador bridge to go shopping at the US stores. The story goes that she went to a …
I saw the Town Criers at Windsor Arena in the 60s. Bob Seger was their lead vocalist. This was the heyday of Detroit rock coming to Windsor. It was early in Seger’s trajectory and the Town Criers did a lot of covers so you could see the music they loved doing and where they were …
John R. Park Homestead is one of my favourite local landmarks. I’m surprised how many people don’t seem know about it. If you went to school in the area, a lot of times you would have gone on a field trip. Whenever I post on Facebook or Insta about an event, people ask where it …
I loved being a Girl Guide. The sense of community and teamwork that were fostered by the Guide Leaders. We would be taught skills and exposed to interests that the adults in our life didn’t necessarily have like bird watching, sewing and camping. My mother would have never put up a tent or lit a …
My father came from England to work at Ford in the early 20th Century. Where we lived in what is now Ford City, there was a significant English-Canadian community and there was always a street party to celebrate Victoria Day. Everyone would bring a dish. My mother would make her famous lemon drizzle cake. My …
Windsor Jane’s Walk 2022 has begun! It’s Jane’s Walk time again! For this time around, I sat down with with Jamie Greer, a local musician and journalist and author of the upcoming book “Killers, Butchers, Cry-Babys & Canadian Destroyers: The History of Pro Wrestling in Windsor, Ontario.” Jamie and I had a great discussion about …
Countdown to our Windsor Jane’s Walk 2022! We had a great conversation with Jamie Greer, author of the coming book Killers, Butchers, Cry-Babys & Canadian Destroyers: History of Wrestling in Windsor. Our focus was wrestling at Windsor Arena but we ran the gamut of personalities in the early days of wrestling including one shocking fact …
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