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Spotlight On Essex County: 2009 Fall To 2010 Winter, Essex Free Press Jan 2010

Spotlight On Essex County: 2009 Fall To 2010 Winter, Essex Free Press

SWODA: Windsor & Region Publications

Articles about Essex County on topics such as wind power, unsolved murders, Jack Miner, Holiday Beach, local writers.


Spotlight On Essex County: 2010 Fall, Essex Free Press Jan 2010

Spotlight On Essex County: 2010 Fall, Essex Free Press

SWODA: Windsor & Region Publications

Articles about Essex County on topics such as local aviators, grain silos, lost communities, toll gates, pawpaw and Jesuit pear trees, wineries.


Spotlight On Essex County: 2010 Spring, Essex Free Press Jan 2010

Spotlight On Essex County: 2010 Spring, Essex Free Press

SWODA: Windsor & Region Publications

Articles about Essex County on topics such as homelessness, foster parents, inventors, sheep farms, the Osage orange, prohibition, Point Pelee National Park.


Her Stories: Lives Of Women In The Detroit River Region, Madelyn Della Valle Jan 1993

Her Stories: Lives Of Women In The Detroit River Region, Madelyn Della Valle

SWODA: Windsor & Region Publications

Her Stories pieces together the lives of eleven women who lived or traveled through the Detroit River region in the 18th and 19th centuries. Unfortunately, some of these women did not leave behind any records of their own making. Like so many other women from the past, some of their stories must be told using scraps and pieces of the better known histories recounted by men; a booklet based on the exhibition at the Francois Baby House: Windsor's Community Museum.


Garden Gateway To Canada : One Hundred Years Of Windsor And Essex County, 1854-1954, Neil F. Morrison Jan 1954

Garden Gateway To Canada : One Hundred Years Of Windsor And Essex County, 1854-1954, Neil F. Morrison

SWODA: Windsor & Region Publications

Acknowledgements. Foreword. 1. A general survey. 2. Midstream of the century--the eighteen fifties. 3. The decade that gave birth to the Dominion of Canada--the eighteen sixties. 4. National, political, and economic adjustments of the eighteen seventies. 5. The rewards of years of endeavour--the eighteen eighties. 6. The end of the Victorian epoch--the eighteen nineties. 7. Embarking on the new era of industrialism--the nineteen hundreds. 8. Sixty odd years of progress. 9. The conflicts of nationalism and industrialism precipitate World War I--nineteen-ten to nineteen-nineteen. 10. The crest of prosperity--the nineteen twenties. 11. Depression .. war .. recovery--the nineteen thirties and later. …


Glamour Of Old Time Days Around The Detroit River And Essex County, Essex County Ontario Tourist Association Jan 1950

Glamour Of Old Time Days Around The Detroit River And Essex County, Essex County Ontario Tourist Association

SWODA: Windsor & Region Publications

History of Windsor and Detroit; "an historical sketch reminding us that our inheritance was won by great deeds and unstinting sacrifices"


Medical Men Of Essex County, James Wilbert Brien Jan 1950

Medical Men Of Essex County, James Wilbert Brien

SWODA: Windsor & Region Publications

For many years the Essex County Medical Society has shown its desire to have a record of the medical practitioners who have practiced in this county and have gone on to their reward. Dr. J. W. Brien has by diligent work so characteristic of him, correlated the work of previous historical committees and added to that, information he obtained from all available sources, and from his own knowledge acquired in a long and honorable association with medical affairs in Windsor and Essex County.


Windsor, Ontario: A Study In Urban Geography, J. Lewis Robinson Jan 1942

Windsor, Ontario: A Study In Urban Geography, J. Lewis Robinson

SWODA: Windsor & Region Publications

History and urban geography of Windsor, Ontario and region to 1942; M. A. thesis, Syracuse University


History Of The Wigle Family And Their Descendants, Hamilton Wigle Jan 1931

History Of The Wigle Family And Their Descendants, Hamilton Wigle

SWODA: Windsor & Region Publications

The decision to publish a new book containing more fully the splendid history of the Wigle family was the culmination of the following considerations by a group of like-minded persons who made all necessary arrangements and appointed Hamilton Wigle an Editor. The only family record to be found is in the book written by Mrs. Burch in 1880 and it has always been felt that a more complete and up-to-date record should be published.


Men Of Achievement, Essex County, Volume 2, Francis X. Chauvin Jan 1929

Men Of Achievement, Essex County, Volume 2, Francis X. Chauvin

SWODA: Windsor & Region Publications

Biographies of prominent male citizens of Essex County, Ontario.


Men Of Achievement, Essex County, Volume 1, Francis X. Chauvin Jan 1927

Men Of Achievement, Essex County, Volume 1, Francis X. Chauvin

SWODA: Windsor & Region Publications

Biographies of prominent male citizens of Essex County, Ontario.


Essex Historical Society Papers And Addresses Volume 1, Essex Historical Society Jan 1913

Essex Historical Society Papers And Addresses Volume 1, Essex Historical Society

SWODA: Windsor & Region Publications

The papers and addresses cover topics such as the Battle of Fighting Island, justice in Sandwich, local literature and historical sources, the Labadie family, Fort Malden, and the history of place names.


Windsor, Ontario, 1913, Canada: Including Walkerville, Ford, Sandwich And Ojibway, H. W. Gardner Jan 1913

Windsor, Ontario, 1913, Canada: Including Walkerville, Ford, Sandwich And Ojibway, H. W. Gardner

SWODA: Windsor & Region Publications

A written and pictorial representation of the growth and expansion of the municipalities of Windsor, Walkerville, Ford, Sandwich and Ojibway.


Township Of Sandwich, Past And Present, Frederick Neal Jan 1909

Township Of Sandwich, Past And Present, Frederick Neal

SWODA: Windsor & Region Publications

A history of the township of Sandwich.


Toronto Daily Mail. Essex Supplement. March 5th 1892, Toronto Daily Mail Jan 1892

Toronto Daily Mail. Essex Supplement. March 5th 1892, Toronto Daily Mail

SWODA: Windsor & Region Publications

"The town of Essex: historical and descriptive sketch of the settlement"; page 3 missing.


Brief Sketch Of The County Of Essex In The Province Of Ontario, Canada 1889, J. E. Johnson Jan 1889

Brief Sketch Of The County Of Essex In The Province Of Ontario, Canada 1889, J. E. Johnson

SWODA: Windsor & Region Publications

"A brief sketch of the county of Essex, in the province of Ontario, Canada: also a short history of the formation and growth of the town of Essex, with biographical sketches of some of the public men, descriptions of buildings &c., describing its climate, situation, resources, soil, productions, and advantages as a place of settlement"

"Issued under the authority of the Municipal Council of Essex by J. E. Johnson, editor and proprietor of the Essex Liberal"--Cover

Filmed from a copy of the original publication held by the Bibliothèque nationale du Québec; part of Canadiana.org


Illustrated Historical Atlas Of The Counties Of Essex And Kent, 1880-1881, H. Belden & Co. Dec 1880

Illustrated Historical Atlas Of The Counties Of Essex And Kent, 1880-1881, H. Belden & Co.

SWODA: Windsor & Region Publications

Covers the history, geography, and biography of the Counties of Essex, Ontario and Kent, Ontario.