WINDSOR
before & AFTER

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IT'S ABOUT PERSPECTIVE

Pairing a riveting collection of archival and contemporary landmark photographs side-by-side, Windsor: Before & After provides a fascinating and bittersweet chronicle of both the city’s lost and surviving built heritage. 

 

Windsor: Before & After reveals the city of Windsor’s structural evolution during its rise as a manufacturing powerhouse in the 19th and 20th century, compared to its early 21st century altered reality.

 

This lavishly illustrated book brings neighborhoods back to life, unsealing a Windsor that once was.

 

CHAPTERS 

• Downtown transformed

• Walkerville: Hiram Walker’s company town

• Ford City: chaotic, meteoric rise and fall

• Sandwich Towne

• Ojibway – the town that never was

• West Enders

• Neighbourhoods of East Windsor and Riverside.

• Lost Bars: an impressive roster of local drinking establishments before and after

 

After more than 20 years documenting the Border Cities’ remarkable and fascinating heritage, behold the eighth local history book by urban historians and publishers, Elaine Weeks and Chris Edwards.