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Salt Mine – 1940 26 Aug 2013 | 09:01 am
From the collection of John Morand This shot is looking north towards the river. Sandwich street crosses in the middle of the picture. Nearly every building in the picture on the north side of Sandwi...
New Windsor Salt Office – 1953 23 Aug 2013 | 09:01 am
From the collection of John Morand A few shots of the “new” office building on Prospect street, opened in 1953. This picture shows the grand opening/ribbon cutting ceremony. From the collection of J...
More Salt Mines 21 Aug 2013 | 09:01 am
From the collection of John Morand A couple of more today from John’s family collection. This is the only underground photo in the collection, it is undated, but I’m going to put it around 1953/1954....
Windsor Salt Trucker Strike – 1953 19 Aug 2013 | 09:01 am
From the collection of John Morand A neat photo today. This one is noted as being the trucker strike in 1953. I suppose the police were called in to keep the peace. A couple of interesting shots sho...
Canada Salt – Riverside Drive 16 Aug 2013 | 09:01 am
From the collection of John Morand The picture above is dated 1910 and shows a side view of the Canada Salt comapny on the property today occupied by CBC at Riverside and Crawford. From the collecti...
Ojibway Conveyor – 1957 14 Aug 2013 | 09:01 am
From the collection of John Morand Today’s photos come to us as a submission from regular reader and commentor JBM. These photos were in his father’s collection and his Great Uncle was an executive w...
Action Hobbies Rail Slideshow # 13 – August 24 – 7:30 pm 12 Aug 2013 | 09:01 am
Saturday, August 24th, 7.30pm – Action Hobbies hosts Historical Train Slide Show #13 Free admission! We’re pleased to announce the 13th instalment of the ever popular Historical Train Slide Show ser...
American Legion Parade – Goyeau & Park – 1931 9 Aug 2013 | 09:01 am
The caption on the back indicates it was taken for the short lived Detroit Mirror. It is dated September 24, 1931. Reports state that out of the 125,000 Legionnaires who registered at the convention...
Windsor, Essex & Lakeshore Rapid Railway Powerhouse – Kingsville 7 Aug 2013 | 09:01 am
The old WE&LS interurban streetcar line that ran from Windsor to Leamington, via Essex and Kingsville may be a long distant memory, but there are a few small traces of the old network still around tod...
Ouellette Avenue – 1927 2 Aug 2013 | 06:56 pm
Happy Friday! Today’s picture is uncaptioned but is dated June 7, 1927. The sign up in the top left reads “Welcome Police Chiefs”, so there must have been a conference in town. A neat shot looking nor...
