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Crime
in the City
Detroit Riots
Great Bank Robbery
of ’59
Portait of a Scandal
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Past
Tense
Tom
Pare grew up in Windsor he is retired and sends
his stories from Traverse City, Michigan.
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Letters
from Margaret
Margaret
Myers Stokes: 1915- 2002
Margaret passed away on February 26, 2002. Read some
of the letters weve received from Margaret here. |
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Roach
Reminisces
Al
Roach, raised in Walkerville, wrote for The Windsor
Star for 43 years. He is the author of two books on
local history, All Our Memories, and All Our Memories
2. |
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A
View From Grandma's Window
Bonnie
Nelson was born and raised in Walkerville and now lives
in St. Andrew by the Sea, New Brunswick. |
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Stan Scislowski
Stanley
Scislowski was born in Windsor in 1923. He has written
extensively on his war experinces and life in Winsor
during the Depression. His book: "Not All of Us Were
Brave" was published in 1997 by Dundurn Press.
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Camilla Stodgell Wigle
Camilla's
parents operated three businesses in the Flat Iron Building
(torn down in 1995), located across from the main office
of Hiram Walker's & Sons on Riverside at Devonshire
Road. Their popular tea room, confectionery and china
shop kept her parents extremely busy and young Camilla
and her two brothers helped out wherever they could.
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The Westender
Sherrill
Tucker has lived in the west of Windsor or Sandwich
West all her life. She approached us with the concept
of "The Westender", tales from Windsor's west end.
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Short
Takes
Quirky
and fun memories of life in Walkerville. |
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History
of Walkerville
"A
small village, situated on the riverside, about a mile
above Windsor. It contains a distillery, carried on
by Hiram Walker and Company, a hotel, store, etc...
and several tenements built by Walker and Co. for the
convenience of their employees, which number from eighty
to one hundred." (1865) |
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