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Rose City Roots · Film, Stages & Songs
Windsor was never Hollywood North. What we were, and are, is a border city of theatres, festivals, radio and song: the Capitol still lit, the Palace gone, CKLW once ruling Detroit's dial, Motown memory at Jackson Park, and two film festivals sharing a symphony hall. This page gathers the free pictures and the honest gaps.
From the Empire's cheap seats on Pitt Street to the Capitol's rescue, downtown Windsor lived by the flickering light. Drive-ins (Skyway from 1948, and others) belong here too; their best photos are still in newspaper vaults.
opened 30 to 31 Dec 1920
Thomas W. Lamb designed it for about 1,995 seats. Famous Players took it in 1929. It closed as a cinema in 1989, was saved from the wrecking ball in the 1990s, and is now home to the Windsor Symphony Orchestra, WIFF and Media City.
Sources: Capitol Theatre official history; Cinema Treasures #876
Archives of Ontario, RG 56-11, I0012615, 1948. Open Government Licence - Ontario.
about 1948
Ontario theatre inspectors photographed the house when it was still a single-screen palace. The gold frame on this page is ours; the photograph is the Province's.
Sources: Archives of Ontario, Theatre Inspection Branch
Archives of Ontario, RG 56-11, I0012616. Open Government Licence - Ontario.
28 June 2025
The same doors now welcome symphony nights, film festivals and Walk of Fame stars. A living downtown building, not a memory.
Sources: Wikimedia Commons
Photo: Chris Woodrich, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
opened about 1920; Tivoli from 1930
C. Howard Crane's Walkerville house. Closed as a cinema in the early 1960s, passed through bingo and nightclub years, and came back as a performing-arts venue.
Sources: Cinema Treasures #2878; Archives of Ontario inspection set
Archives of Ontario, RG 56-11, I0012845, 20 Oct 1947. Open Government Licence - Ontario.
20 Oct 1947
Another inspector's view of the Walkerville house. The seats and plaster tell how seriously the Border Cities took a night at the pictures.
Sources: Archives of Ontario
Archives of Ontario, RG 56-11, I0012846. Open Government Licence - Ontario.
20 Oct 1947
Three free inspection photos let us show the Tivoli without paying a licence. That matters for a desk that will not buy art rights.
Sources: Archives of Ontario
Archives of Ontario, RG 56-11, I0012847. Open Government Licence - Ontario.
Two buildings on one site: Allen / Palace from 1920; rebuild opened 1987; closed January 2012
Opened as the Allen Theatre in 1920 (CBC and Cinema Treasures; some later write-ups say 1918). C. Howard Crane designed the original house (he also designed the Walkerville Theatre). Meretsky and Famous Players kept it into the multiplex era. The original building was demolished in the mid-1980s (period accounts cluster around 1984 to 1986; a Star "Palace had a storied past" clip was not pulled this pass to lock a single day). Chuck Mady built a new Palace, opened in fall 1987. That later house closed in January 2012; the Windsor Star building later stood on the site, and the University of Windsor has since used the downtown property. Always say which building is meant.
Sources: CBC News, 5 Jan 2012; Cinema Treasures #34130; International Metropolis / Star history (mid-1980s demolition and 1987 reopening flagged for Star confirmation)
Ouellette Avenue looking north, about 1925, with Detroit in the distance. The vertical Palace Theatre sign is on the right, beside the Heintzman building. This is a street view, not a tight facade. The Mandarin Gardens sign is in the left foreground. SWODA / Leddy Library; Mike Skreptak Collection, Black Binder 3. Public domain.
673 Ouellette Ave.; opened 1936 or 1937; closed 1987; demolished April 2016
Art Deco Vitrolite house by Albert McPhail at 673 Ouellette Avenue. Cinema Treasures gives the opening as 21 November 1936; some Windsor Star features say 1937. We show both until Border Cities Star ads settle it. On 14 May 1968 it shared a world premiere of The Devil's Brigade with Detroit, Cliff Robertson present. The theatre closed in 1987 and was demolished in April 2016 (Cinema Treasures; City permit / Star demolition clip not re-pulled this pass).
Sources: Cinema Treasures #25669; AFI Catalog / Star gallery for the premiere
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Empire opened 5 Dec 1918
The Empire on Pitt Street West sold itself as Windsor's lowest-price theatre. Across the century the city also had the Kent, Park, Royal, Odeon, Regent, Imperial, Temple and more. We name them carefully until period ads confirm each claim.
Sources: Cinematic Windsor, 2019; Cinema Treasures #65928
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Media City and WIFF kept the Capitol working after the multiplex era. Local shoots are real; we only list titles we can source.
1994 to today
Experimental and artists' cinema on both sides of the river. The Capitol is its main Windsor home. A 30th-anniversary edition is planned for 2027.
Sources: Media City Film Festival About page
Capitol exterior photo: Chris Woodrich, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Festival logo not shown.
founded July 2005
Mark Boscariol and Dennis Perlin started WIFF with Deepa Mehta's Water. It grew into Canada's largest volunteer-run film festival. Attendance claims for the 20th anniversary come from WIFF and local press; we cite them carefully.
Sources: windsorfilmfestival.com; Windsor Star coverage
Capitol exterior about 2007: Mikerussell, GFDL / CC BY-SA, via Wikimedia Commons.
1989 to today
Presumed Innocent filmed a ferry scene at Reaume Park in 1989 (Harrison Ford and Bonnie Bedelia). Later full-local features include Things to Do (2006), The Birder (2012) and The Scarehouse (2014). We do not claim Toronto shoots as Windsor's.
Sources: UPI Archives, 5 Aug 1989; Windsor Star; production notes
Reaume Park, Windsor. Photo: Andrea_44, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Production stills still need a free grant.
Radio and a park bandshell carried Windsor's sound across the river. Rosalie Trombley's sculpture stands in for the Big 8 until Museum Windsor clears the station photo. Motown publicity stills are not free; the park photo stands in for the bandshell.
CKOK 1932; Big 8 from April 1967; Windsor-licensed, not Detroit
A Windsor station that owned Detroit's radio dial: 50,000 watts, Motown beside rock, and music director Rosalie Trombley, the "girl with the golden ear." Bob Seger wrote "Rosalie" about her. CKLW was licensed and sited in Windsor, not Detroit. Motown was founded in Detroit, not Windsor; the Windsor root is the radio bridge into that audience. CanCon rules and FM fragmentation ended the Big 8 branding by the mid-1980s; the 1970 content rules and the 1984 CRTC FM refusal are on the next cards. Windsor's Michael McNamara told the story in a Gemini-winning documentary.
Sources: Ontario Heritage Trust (Ron Leary, 2019); Museum of Broadcast Communications; McNamara, Radio Revolution
Rosalie Trombley commemorative sculpture, Windsor. Photo: Chris Woodrich, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Museum Windsor station photo P 6539 still awaits free permission.
Music director of the Big 8
Trombley, remembered as the "girl with the golden ear," controlled the Big 30 playlist. Ontario Heritage Trust and later press credit her influence on careers including Elton John, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Bob Seger, Stevie Wonder, Alice Cooper and KISS. Canadian acts also broke into U.S. listening through CKLW adds, including the Guess Who's "These Eyes" in 1969. This card is about the playlist gatekeeper. Big 8 air staff names are not listed as Windsor-born here without separate birthplace checks.
Sources: Ontario Heritage Trust, Ron Leary, 2019
Rosalie Trombley commemorative sculpture, Windsor, second view. Photo: Chris Woodrich, 22 June 2025. CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Born Detroit, 1948. The Windsor root is CKLW.
Alice Cooper, born Vincent Furnier in Detroit in 1948, is not from Windsor and did not grow up here. The Windsor root is CKLW, "The Big 8." Rosalie Trombley, the station's music director, played "I'm Eighteen," from the album Love It to Death, after her son Tim recommended it. The station's signal carried the song into Detroit and the Midwest, and it became the band's breakthrough.
In the documentary Radio Revolution, Cooper said: "CKLW... we owe everything to them." Producer Bob Ezrin, a Canadian from Toronto, has credited Trombley at CKLW as the first to play them.
In 1972 Cooper came to Windsor in a limousine and took Trombley and her son to lunch, the Windsor Star later reported. At the 5 July 2013 show at Caesars Windsor, Tim Trombley, then the casino's entertainment director, presented him with a Caesars Sold Out award. Cooper has returned to that stage, including on 11 September 2022, the night of the photograph on this card. See also CKLW, The Big 8 and Rosalie Trombley.
Sources: windsorlife.com, "The Lady with the Golden Ear" (quoting Radio Revolution); Windsor Star, "I'm Eighteen," 27 June 2013; The Globe and Mail, Rosalie Trombley obituary (Ezrin credit)
Alice Cooper performing at the Colosseum, Caesars Windsor, 11 September 2022. Tommy Henriksen (left) and Kane Roberts (centre) are in the background. Photo: Chris Woodrich, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Canadian content rules 1970; CRTC FM refusal 1984
In 1970, Canadian content rules constrained the Big 8 playlist. Ontario Heritage Trust says R&B largely lost shelf space. The station stayed number one into 1973, then declined as FM fragmented the audience. In 1984 the CRTC declined an FM hit-radio relaunch application; staff layoffs and a format change followed. That is the recorded end of the Big 8 era, not a Detroit licence story.
Sources: Ontario Heritage Trust, Ron Leary, 2019
Text only. Historic studio interiors and transmitter-site photos are still fee leads (Museum Windsor P6539; Star / Broadcast Dialogue). Buy nothing.
Photographed 2012; former CKLW AM and FM studios
This is a place photograph of the building that once held CKLW AM and CKLW-FM, later used by a Windsor television studio. It is not a Big 8 control-room interior, and it is not a claim about today's television ownership.
Sources: Commons File:Cbet-building.jpg caption; Ontario Heritage Trust for the station's Windsor site
Aikidockd. Former CKLW studios building, Windsor, 8 March 2012. Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 3.0.
Walter Perry from 1932
Jackson Park's bandshell and grandstand held what people called the Greatest Freedom Show on Earth. CBC and community history name Motown-era performers; we will lock captions to period ads and programs before we put those names under a photo. The park fire of 1957 and the permit collapse after July 1967 are part of the story. See also Freedom Shore and Jackson Park.
Sources: CBC News, 2 Aug 2019; Emancipation Day Committee; City of Windsor monument page
Archives of Ontario, Jackson Park historic photo. Open Government Licence - Ontario.
June 2025
The park is quieter now, but the stage memory is still Windsor's. This modern view sits beside the archive photo so you can feel the then and now.
Sources: Wikimedia Commons; Rose City Roots Jackson Park chapter
Photo: Chris Woodrich, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
1950s to 1960s
Oral and community history place Diana Ross, The Temptations, Stevie Wonder and The Supremes on this shore. Strong local memory; we still want the period Star ads before we write it in stone. Motown publicity portraits are not free, so this card shows the park that held the stage.
Sources: CBC Emancipation Day history; scholarly work on 1957 to 1968 celebrations
Jackson Park historic photo. Archives of Ontario. Open Government Licence - Ontario. No Motown publicity stills.
born Windsor, 9 May 1975
Her star is in the sidewalk outside the Capitol. Windsor-born, heard around the world.
Sources: Tamiaworld / Windsor Public Library bios
Photo: Chris Woodrich, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
raised in Windsor
Born in Boston, raised here. Stage and screen career, and a narrator's turn with the WSO on Peter and the Wolf. The star is at the Capitol.
Sources: Canadian Encyclopedia; WSO notes
Colm Feore at the 2013 Canadian Film Centre Annual Gala and Auction. Photo: Canadian Film Centre, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Short cards for now. Free portraits join when they clear.
Correction: Shania Twain was born in Windsor (Eilleen Regina Edwards, 28 August 1965) and raised in Timmins. An earlier desk note that rejected the Windsor birth was wrong (Canadian Encyclopedia; Windsor Public Library). Full born-here cards for Twain, Garth Hudson, John B. Swainson, Seth Bullock and Mollie Graham belong on Born Here, Went Far, not duplicated here. This tab keeps a short cross-link only.
Born Here, Went Far
Shania Twain (born Windsor 1965, raised Timmins), Garth Hudson (born Windsor 1937, raised London), and other born-here names are on Born Here, Went Far. Do not rebuild those bios on this page.
Sources: Canadian Encyclopedia · Windsor Public Library
Shania Twain, 2015, already shown on Born Here, Went Far, which this card points to. Garth Hudson also has a photograph on that page. Photo: Lorie Shaull. CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
born Windsor, 24 Jan 1936
Rockabilly hits with the Chantones behind him. A Windsor name on the early rock charts.
Sources: Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame; Windsor Public Library
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born Windsor, 18 Apr 1946
Jefferson Airplane and Moby Grape. Born here, made elsewhere, still part of the city's music map.
Sources: University of Windsor DailyNews; New York Times obituary
Jefferson Airplane early 1966; Skip Spence fourth from left. Photo: Chuck Boyd, KRLA Beat Publications. Public domain (no copyright notice), via Wikimedia Commons.
formed Windsor, 1990
A Windsor band that filled rooms across Canada. Local start, national reach.
Sources: Canadian Encyclopedia
The Tea Party at Burlington Sound of Music Festival, 2015 (Stuart Chatwood, Jeff Burrows, Jeff Martin). Photo: Tabercil, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
professional from 16 Nov 1947
From a wartime concert orchestra to a professional body under Matti Holli. Homes included the Tivoli, the Capitol, the Cleary / Chrysler Theatre from 1961, and back to the Capitol as managing tenant from 2012. The Freedom Festival 1812 Overture cannon mishap of 1980 is on the orchestra's own history page.
Sources: Windsor Symphony Orchestra official history
Archives of Ontario, RG 56-11, I0012617. Open Government Licence - Ontario.
vaudeville, cinema, symphony and film
The Capitol ties this whole section together: opening-week vaudeville and Keaton, decades of movies, then WSO, WIFF and Media City under one roof.
Sources: Capitol Theatre history; Border Cities Star opening ads (lead)
Archives of Ontario, RG 56-11, I0012618. Open Government Licence - Ontario.
interim 17 May 1994; permanent 29 July 1998
The interim casino opened in a renovated Art Gallery of Windsor. The Northern Belle riverboat ran from December 1995 to July 1998. The permanent house opened 29 July 1998 and later took the Caesars name. We note jobs, tourism and downtown change as facts, not a cheer.
Sources: OLG corporate history 1990 to 1999; CBC casino anniversary coverage
Casino Windsor exterior, 30 Oct 2009. Photo: Jason F. Voll, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Factual building photo, not a promotional campaign image.
Bluesfest from 1995
Ted Boomer and Louise Knowles started Bluesfest International Windsor outside Johnny Canucks, then moved to the riverfront. Freedom Festival fireworks were a shared Detroit-Windsor spectacle for decades before the festivals split around 2007.
Sources: Windsor Star (Ted Boomer obituary; Bluesfest Year 20); Detroit Historical Society
Riverfront Festival Plaza, Windsor, 17 May 2014. Photo: Copystar, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Stage performance stills stay with their owners.
The full section plan from the research report. This page is the entrance, not every page.
Border Cities people crossed for shows, movies, music and later the casino. The Capitol still stands. The Palace is gone. Jackson Park once held a continental stage.
Empire, Allen/Palace, Capitol, Vanity, Walkerville/Tivoli, neighbourhood houses and drive-ins. Opening dates that conflict are flagged, not papered over.
Verified shoots and premieres, from Presumed Innocent at Reaume Park to local indie features. No Hollywood North myth.
Media City (1994) and WIFF (2005) share the Capitol with the symphony: avant-garde and populist under one roof.
City permitting through economic development; Ontario Creates regional bonus for work outside the GTA. Local filmmakers have argued the region under-supports production. We report the debate.
NFB Windsor titles and the McNamara Big 8 documentary. Ford industrial film is a rights lead, not a scrape.
Capitol as vaudeville-cinema hybrid; Cleary/Chrysler concerts. Prohibition-era nightlife is factual only; see Rum Row. We do not dress it up.
Walter Perry's celebration from 1932; Motown-era bills in local memory; fire and permit loss. Cross-links to Freedom Shore and Jackson Park.
Windsor radio that owned Detroit. Rosalie Trombley. The strongest single music story in this section.
Artists crossing for hops and promos; Jack Scott, Skip Spence, The Tea Party, Tamia. Shania Twain was born in Windsor and raised in Timmins; the full born-here card is on Born Here, Went Far.
Bluesfest from 1995; Freedom Festival to Summerfest; community bands under the stars.
From 1947 to the Capitol residency. Same building as the film festivals.
Dates, jobs, tourism, downtown change. Factual tone only.
Short bios for filmmakers, musicians, stage artists and promoters, added as portrait rights clear.
Museum Windsor CKLW photo, Border Cities Star microfilm for opening dates, Emancipation programs, drive-in and Palace/Vanity exteriors.
Verified adds from the roots deep dive.
Label founded Windsor 1990; Hawtin raised Windsor/LaSalle (born England)
Techno label founded in Windsor in 1990 by Richie Hawtin and John Acquaviva. Exclaim! has called Windsor the second home of Detroit techno. Frame as raised here, not born here.
Sources: Exclaim! · encyclopedia.com Hawtin profile
Sven Mandel. Richie Hawtin, 2018. Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0.
Born Leamington 1959
Novelist. Lives of the Saints won the 1990 Governor General's Award for fiction. Essex County root on the writers shelf.
Sources: Canadian Encyclopedia · Governor General's Awards fiction 1990
Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 3.0. Small column portrait.
Born Windsor 25 June 1950
Novelist (The White Bone). Member of the Order of Canada. Cross-link Women of Windsor.
Sources: Canadian Encyclopedia · Windsor Public Library
Dan H. Eden Mills Writers Festival, 2017. Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0.
Born Windsor 1926 (Marjorie Chandler)
Star singer of television's Your Hit Parade in the 1950s. Born Windsor.
Sources: Windsor Public Library bio files · period Hit Parade credits
Publicity still. Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.
New people from the second deep dive. The already live CKLW Big 8 station chapter is not rewritten here; Byron MacGregor is added as a person card and points back to that chapter. Assumption / UWindsor as a school story is being handled in the more-roots chapters preview, not on this tab.
CKLW news director; born Calgary
Built CKLW's fast 20/20 news format (reports at 20 minutes before and after the hour). RTDNA Canada Hall of Fame. He was born in Calgary, not Windsor; the Windsor tie is the CKLW job. This is a person card, not a redo of the already live Big 8 station chapter. Cross-link CKLW, The Big 8.
Sources: RTDNA Canada Hall of Fame · Ontario Heritage Trust
The former CKLW radio and television studios building in Windsor, photographed 8 March 2012, where Byron MacGregor built the 20/20 news format. He is not pictured. Photo: Aikidockd. CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Raised in LaSalle; Sandwich Secondary and UWindsor theatre
Won CBC's Over the Rainbow in 2012 and originated Dorothy in the Andrew Lloyd Webber Wizard of Oz in Toronto, then toured North America. Later stage work included the Mean Girls tour. Raised in LaSalle, not described here as "born in Windsor" (local coverage calls her a LaSalle native). Also on Born Here, Went Far and Women of Windsor. No free portrait was cleared tonight (a different Wade photograph was rejected).
Sources: Global News · Windsor Star
University of Windsor campus, August 2006, where Danielle Wade studied theatre. She is not pictured. Photo: Mikerussell. CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Windsor-based novelist
Little Fish won the Amazon Canada First Novel Award. She has also served on a Giller Prize jury. Publisher and local coverage place her in Windsor. This is a based-here card, not a birth-and-left card.
Sources: Arsenal Pulp Press · Windsor Star
ThePortraitLady. CC0. Via Wikimedia Commons.
Alexander Zonjic performing at Jazz on the River, Elizabeth Park, Trenton, Michigan, 1 August 2026. Photo: 42-BRT, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Windsor flutist
A Windsor-born jazz and classical flutist, University of Windsor trained, who has performed with the Windsor Symphony and the Detroit Symphony. Still a local music root.
Sources: Windsor Public Library · Alexander Zonjic, official biography
David Sobolov at TFCon, Burbank, 17 March 2019. Photo: Siike Donnelly, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Born Windsor, 23 Oct 1964
A voice actor and director, later well known for animation and game roles. Windsor Public Library records a Windsor birth. Also on Born Here, Went Far.
Sources: Windsor Public Library · TV Insider
Born Windsor, 8 Feb 1979
A country musician (including work as Kortney Kayle and later The Wilsons) who later became known for house-flip television. Born here; the later career was largely in Nashville. Also on Born Here, Went Far.
Sources: Windsor Public Library · HGTV biography
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Born Windsor, 1924; died 2017
A sculptor who served in the Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service, then studied in Toronto, New York and Paris. Public works include Woman at Women's College Hospital, Toronto. Windsor Public Library and the Globe and Mail both place the birth in Windsor. The Globe obituary is the date guide (2017), not an earlier 2013 research typo.
Sources: Windsor Public Library · The Globe and Mail
Women's College Hospital in Toronto, 26 August 2025, home of Frances M. Gage's public work Woman. This is the hospital, not a portrait. Photo: Dillan Payne, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Born Oak Park, Illinois, 18 Mar 1930; taught at UWindsor from 1959; died 2016
Poet, fiction writer and University of Windsor English professor who founded the University of Windsor Review. He was born in Oak Park, Illinois, not in Windsor. The tie is the long teaching and literary life here. A Windsor Star obituary called him a former engine of the city's literary scene.
Sources: Windsor Public Library · Windsor Star
University of Windsor campus, August 2006, where Eugene McNamara taught English from 1959. He is not pictured. Photo: Mikerussell. CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Names from the who's-missing dig that belong with Film, Stages and Songs.
UWindsor professor about 1969 to 2000; died Windsor 2014
Born in North Battleford, Saskatchewan, and raised in Cape Breton. He taught English and creative writing at the University of Windsor for more than thirty years and died in Windsor on 20 April 2014. Author of No Great Mischief. Tie: taught and died in Windsor; not Windsor-born.
Sources: Windsor Public Library; Canadian Encyclopedia
Photo: Marty Gervais. Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA (VRT permission on file).
Taught at the University of Windsor 1968 to 1978
American novelist who taught at the University of Windsor for a decade. Frame as taught here, not as a Windsor-born writer.
Sources: Detroit Historical Society; university faculty histories
Bernard Gotfryd. 1972. Wikimedia Commons. Public domain (Gotfryd collection).
Born Windsor 1946; founded Black Moss Press 1969
Windsor-born poet and publisher. Black Moss Press has been a local literary house for decades. Tie: born Windsor.
Sources: Windsor Public Library; UWindsor English faculty page
University of Windsor campus, August 2006. Marty Gervais is a Windsor-born poet and publisher with a University of Windsor faculty tie. He is not pictured. Photo: Mikerussell. CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Lives in Windsor; Professor Emeritus, University of Windsor
Born in Middlesbrough, England. A major Canadian conceptual artist who lives in Windsor and is Professor Emeritus at the University of Windsor. Tie: lives and taught in Windsor.
Sources: Canadian Encyclopedia; Art Windsor-Essex / UWindsor notes
University of Windsor campus, August 2006, where Iain Baxter& is Professor Emeritus. He is not pictured. Photo: Mikerussell. CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Visited the Canadian shore opposite Detroit, and Sandwich, in 1837
A visitor, not a resident. In Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada (1838) she wrote that "the little hamlet opposite to Detroit is called Richmond." She sat on the grassy bank above the river, spoke with a French Canadian who was taking cherries to Sandwich, and rode in his cart. She described Sandwich as the county town of the Western District, with a population of little more than four hundred, and regretted missing Mr. Prince, the local proprietor and assembly member. Tie: a primary-source visit to Richmond (the Canadian shore opposite Detroit) and to Sandwich in 1837. She was a visitor, not a Windsor writer.
Sources: Anna Jameson, Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada (1838); passage confirmed in the later reprint Sketches in Canada
Hill and Adamson, 1844. Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Taken seven years after her Canadian journey.
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