Windsor Ontario

Windsor Ontario is the southernmost city in Canada and lies at the western end of the heavily populated Quebec City-Windsor Corridor. Windsor is located south of Detroit, is separated from that city by the Detroit River, and has views of the Detroit skyline. Windsor marks the only location where crossing the border from Canada into the contiguous United States involves travelling north. The current mayor is Eddie Francis. Windsor is nicknamed the Rose City and residents are known as Windsorites.

Real Estate Information

Located at the Southernmost tip of Ontario and Canada, Windsor is a great place to raise a family. There are many amenities offered from great beaches bordering two great lakes (St. Clair and Lake Erie) incredible wineries and parks. Windsor offers great schools and organizations for your familiy to join. Windsor has great home oppurtunites from waterfront homes and condos to million dollar homes.

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Schools

Public Schools

Public french school board

Catholic Schools

Catholic french school board

St. Clair College

University of Windsor

Education Facts

Over 47% of the Region's population aged 15 years and over have at least some post-secondary education, and over 17% have a university degree. The most common field of study for those with post-secondary education was Architecture, Engineering and related Technologies, with over a 1/4 of the population focusing their studies in this field.

Day Care Information

Golf Windsor Essex County Ontario

Windsor and Essex County offer many fine golf courses and with a short sprint to Michigan we can use the many fine golf courses there as well.

Windsor and Essex County are multi cultural areas so in turn they offer multicultural dining. Choose from many different types and styles of food the selection seems almost endless.

Windsor Golf

Michigan Golf

The Windsor-Essex Region has it all...

From fishing villages and farming communities, to a metropolitan area hailed as one of Canada's leading technology and manufacturing centres, the Windsor-Essex Region has it all. Originating in 1750 as a small French settlement along the Detroit River, this is a typical southern Ontario region. A relatively small population covers a large geographical area, and enjoys one of the world's highest standards of living.

The Windsor-Essex Region is truly a "Community of Communities". The Region is made up of the eight municipalities, encompassing a total area of 1,851 square kilometres. The Region occupies the extreme southwestern tip of Ontario, and is in fact a peninsula, surrounded by water on three sides and where the United States lies to the north (Michigan), south (Ohio) and west (Michigan).

Windsor

Lasalle

Tecumseh

Lakeshore

Amherstburg

Essex

Kingsville

Leamington

Pelee Island

Sports

Retail Shopping Windsor Ontario

Devonshire Mall

Tecumseh Mall

Windsor Crossing Outlet Mall

Phoenix Home & Garden

Windsor and Essex county also offer many strip malls, plazas, stand alone merchants clothing specialists in many areas (Ottawa st., Erie st., Amherstburg, Kingsville, Leamington and many more) with a list to extensive to mention all of them.

Restaurants

Windsor and Essex County are multicultural communities which means multicultural food. The choices and selection of food and restaurants seems almost endless. Check out the massive lists of restaurants you can choose you next meal from. Hamburgers to fine dining Windsor and Essex County Ontario have it all.

Windsor restaurants

Windsor and Essex County restaurants

Weather averages for Windsor, Ontario
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Average high °C (°F) -1
(30) 1
(33) 6
(43) 13
(56) 21
(69) 26
(78) 28
(82) 27
(80) 23
(73) 16
(60) 8
(47) 2
(35) 14
(57)
Average low °C (°F) -8
(18) -7
(20) -2
(28) 3
(38) 9
(49) 14
(58) 17
(63) 17
(62) 12
(54) 6
(43) 1
(33) -4
(24) 5
(41)
Precipitation mm (inches) 58.4
(2.3) 58.4
(2.3) 76.2
(3.0) 86.4
(3.4) 81.3
(3.2) 91.4
(3.6) 83.8
(3.3) 78.7
(3.1) 96.5
(3.8) 66
(2.6) 76.2
(3.0) 76.2
(3.0) 932.2
(36.7)
Source: Environment Canada 2008-12-09

Windsor Detroit crossing information

Border crossing information

Parks and Trails

Windsor's Department of Parks and Recreation maintains 3,000 acres (12 km²) of green space, 180 parks, 40 miles (64 km) of trails, 22 miles (35 km) of sidewalk, 60 parking lots, vacant lands, natural areas and forest cover within the city of Windsor, as well as the bike trails, bike lanes, and bike-friendly streets. The largest park is Mic Mac Park, which can accommodate many different activities including baseball, soccer, biking, and playgrounds for children. Windsor has numerous bike trails that criss-cross the city, the largest being the Ganatchio Trail on Windsor's far east side. In recent years, city council has pushed for the addition of bicycle lanes on city streets to provide links throughout the existing trail network. With the addition of a new international crossing Windsor's parks and trails should expand to provide even greater "green" coverage.

The Windsor trail network is linked to LaSalle, Ontario's trail network ("LaSalle Trail") in the west end, and will eventually be linked up to the Chrysler Canada Greenway (part of the Trans Canada Trail), with a second branch to the trail via LaSalle within the next 10-15 years. The current greenway is a 42-km abandoned railway corridor that has been converted into multi-use recreational trail, underground utility corridor and a natural green space. The corridor begins south of Oldcastle, and continues south through the Towns of McGregor and Harrow. Here, it turns east and proceeds through Kingsville to Ruthven at Colasanti's Tropical Gardens. In the past several years, additional extensions have been purchased and currently, the Greenway is nearly 50 kilometres in length. The Greenway is one of Canada's most beautiful trails for hiking, biking running, birding, cross country skiing and in some areas, horseback riding. It connects natural areas, rich agricultural lands, historically and architecturally significant structures, award winning wineries and many other features that make the Windsor-Essex County Region unique. As a direct result from the city's portion of casino revenues, an upgraded 5-km landscaped trail has been filled along the riverfront with various modern and post-modern sculptures from artists in Essex County. Families of elephants, penguins and horses, among other themes intersect the trail.