Windsor Then is available at:

Walkerville Publishing to arrange pick up
519-255-9527
chris@walkerville.com

Juniper Books
1990 Ottawa Street
Windsor On
519-258-4111
click here for directions 

From the Heart Gifts
1356 Ottawa Street near Hall
Windsor, Ontario
519-969-2773

The Uncommon Market
Art Gallery of Windsor
401 Riverside Drive West
(519) 977-1400

The University of Windsor Bookstore
Sunset Ave. & Wyandotte St. W.
Windsor, Ontario
519.973.7018 

Page 233 Books
233 Dalhousie St
Amherstburg, Ontario
(519) 736-1233

Unique Books & Gifts
54 Talbot St. North,
Essex ON
519-566-4034

Happy New Year to you and yours….

We ran out of books during our book signing at Juniper Books on December 23rd. We are printing Windsor Then “on demand”- a new way to print books, but underestimated the demand.

We will have a fresh batch of books the first week in January- so if you missed out we apologize but hope you’ll stop in at our booksellers, including Juniper Books, University of Windsor Bookstore, The Art Gallery Gift Shop, and From The Heart.

Thx for all your support- enjoy the book over a relaxing holiday!

For those of you who are trying to find the perfect last minute gift, Elaine (history babe) and I will be at Juniper Books on Friday December 23rd, signing copies of Windsor Then- A Pictorial Guide to Windsor Ontario’s Glorious Past.

Juniper Books is one of the last independent book sellers in Windsor, and Roger Wurdman (great name by the way- he destined to be a book seller!) has a huge catalogue of books by local authors.

Details: 

Windsor Then- A Pictorial Guide to Windsor Ontario’s Glorious Past- book signing

Juniper Books- 1990 Ottawa Street

Time: December 23rd, 11 am -5 pm

If you don’t see you there, have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New!

Windsor’s ‘Glorious Past’ celebrated in new book

Through the veil of years, faces from a Windsor long ago stare back at you like it was yesterday.

Some of the images in Windsor Then, a new book of 138 vintage photographs, are so vivid and brimming with life you feel you could step right into them.

Like the picture that graces the cover — a view from the foot of Ouellette Avenue looking south from the old ferry dock. It was taken in 1904 by an unknown photographer and shows a row of buildings on either side between the river and Riverside Drive that are long gone. Up a block, at the intersection of Riverside and Ouellette, a trolley glides by while a banner in the distance reminds shoppers the races are on later in the day.

read more here….

This fascinating 100-year photographic collection of Windsor, Ontario from 1860 to 1960, with images culled from the archives of Walkerville Publishing Inc., chronicles the evolution of a sleepy village at the western edge of the British Empire, as it becomes a Canadian industry giant.

Though christened Windsor because of its “back-home” familiarity, Canada’s southernmost city was in large part shaped by its close proximity to Detroit, Michigan.

The more than 130 photos in “Windsor Then” include images that emerge like a nearly forgotten dream: stubby ferry steamers puffing across the Detroit River, graceful ships cruising up and down the Great Lakes, charming horse-drawn carriages and trolleys giving way to the steel and smoke horse-less variety, rowdy rum runners making their fortunes during the wild days of Prohibition, the harsh reality of the Great Depression sandwiched between two “great” wars, and the rise of the well-to-do and comfortable middle class as Windsor’s auto and tool and die industry matures.

Ultimately, what this book reveals is a portrait of a community’s boundless optimism, its innovators as well as simple, hard-working business folk, during an era of remarkable achievement, vigour and great expectations, when anything was possible.

And indeed, isn’t Windsor’s story really the story of Canada?

> To Purchase a Copy Click Here