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About Windsor Essex Windsor & Essex County is Canada's southernmost county. Sitting at the same latitude as northern California, it has become one of the most agriculturally productive counties in the country. It offers recreational, cultural and professional options that are numerous and inviting. Essex County's many historic and scenic attractions, its many miles of shoreline and beaches, and its sunny climate make it an attractive place to visit or live. 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. Windsor offers cultural and historical sites, lush gardens and natural areas, gaming, international restaurants, events and festivals. Being the southernmost area in Canada, it has mild temperatures and warmer seasons. It has a top-notch university,…

Our Communities Our southern Ontario location bordered by Lakes Erie & St. Clair and the Detroit River produces a temperate climate, ideal for year-round recreational activities and a pleasant lifestyle. With only 510 people per square mile, you can choose the city life, the suburbs or a quaint country town and relax on a short commute between office and home. Enjoy safe, secure communities, a high standard of living and a region focused on leading healthcare specialists and facilities. The area is overflowing with cultural events, festivals, world-renowned entertainment and thanks to our Detroit neighbours, major league sports action. Amherstburg Situated along the Detroit River approximately 32kms southwest of Windsor and across from Boblo Island, Amherstburg is one of the oldest towns in the province. Its unique century old buildings stand beside modern architectural structures linking the past with the present, and offering the visitor a blend of both worlds within its boundaries. View Community Essex…

Schools Post-Secondary The University of Windsor is Canada's southernmost university. It is a research oriented, comprehensive university with a student population of 16,000 full-time graduate and undergraduate students. Now entering its most ambitious capital expansion since its founding in 1963, the University of Windsor recently opened the Anthony P. Toldo Health Education & Learning Centre, which houses the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry. With the help of $40 million in Ontario government funding, the University also has recently finished construction of a 300,000-square-foot (28,000 m2), $112-million Centre for Engineering Innovation; a structure that establishes revolutionary design standards across Canada and beyond. The university is just east of the Ambassador Bridge, south of the Detroit River. In Spring 2011, it was announced the University of Windsor would move its music and visual art programs downtown to be housed in the historic Armouries building and former Greyhound…

Weather Being Canada's southernmost point, bordered by the Detroit River, Lake St. Clair and Lake Erie, the Windsor-Essex Region boasts the warmest climate in all of Ontario. The Region is actually located at the same latitude as northern California, and enjoys average temperature above 50°F (10°C) 223 days per year for seven months of short-sleeve weather. The Region enjoys four distinct seasons, allowing residents and visitors to enjoy the great outdoors with such activities as swimming, scuba diving, pond hockey & cross country skiing, hiking on trails, bird watching. The Great Lakes ensure the Region has mild winters with very little snow and long warm summers. In the fall, comfortable, sunny days and cool, bracing nights make this season a favourite time of year. Windsor Weather Forecast Windsor/Essex County Average Temperatures Month  Avg. High   Avg. Low   Avg. Hours Sunshine (per day) Av. Days with Rainfall Av. Days with Snowfall    °F °C °F °C       January 31.9 -0.06…

Transportation Detroit-Windsor Crossings Windsor is linked to the United States by the Ambassador Bridge, the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel, a Canadian Pacific Railway tunnel, and the Detroit-Windsor Truck Ferry. The Ambassador Bridge is North America's #1 international border crossing in terms of goods volume: 27% of all trade between Canada and the United States crosses at the Ambassador Bridge. On April 9, 2010, the City of Windsor, along with local cabinet ministers Dwight Duncan and Sandra Pupatello of the Province of Ontario, announced that a final decision had been made in the plans to construct the Windsor-Essex Parkway, the new Highway 401 extension leading to a future crossing. Roadways As Windsor's development has sprawled out along the banks of the Detroit river and Lake St Clair, the city is wider than it is deep meaning that the majority of development stretches along the water instead of in-land. Windsor has completed a municipal highway, E.C. Row Expressway, running from east-west through…

Things To Do In Windsor The Windsor area offers a great combination of widely different appeals. If you want a medium-sized Metropolitan area with a full range of city facilities—that’s right here! If you want a huge city, with all its associated attractions, then you’ll find Detroit a mere fifteen minutes away by bridge or tunnel. And if you want real small-town life, it’s here too, in a number of nearby towns with a really short downtown-Windsor commute. If you have school-age children, they will be served by an excellent educational system. If you enjoy the outdoors, there are great sports facilities and mile after mile of waterfront Then too, the cultural life offers you all kinds of possibilities, on both sides of the border And if once in a while you want to kick up your heels and gamble a bit, you have an International Casino or the horses at Windsor Raceway. So check out the overall facilities through the helpful information at each of the following links: Attractions (For the Body and Soul) Actually…