windsor [[walkerville) maps

[blackmath]

Yes Danny, long story short, the steel industry was supposed to come here in a huge way. Windsor was going to be the "Pittsburgh" of Canada and a massive plant was to be built on land that is now the racetrack and Ojibway Park going up to the river. It would employ many, many thousands of people - hence the streets platted out here. Of course the Depression and WW2 happened which killed that idea and the city remained reliant on a single industry. They laid some of the streets out that used to be much more visible and all that remains are quickly disappearing curbs, fire hydrants and street signs with shacks scattered around here and there.

People built homes out there anyway and made a small subdivision for themselves, but an F4 tornado ripped most of those homes apart in 1946. As I said, all that remains out there are dead end streets to nowhere, piles of dirt blocking old roads and thousands of deer.

That is one heck of a map, MikeM, btw.