Windsor City Overview
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Windsor, 190km southwest of London. The factories are American subsidiaries built as part of a complex trading agreement which, monitored by the forceful Canadian United Automobile Workers Union, has created thousands of well-paid jobs. A robustly working-class place, Windsor has a clutch of good restaurants, a lively café-bar nightlife, and is also a good base for visiting both the remains of the British Fort Malden in Amherstburg, 25km to the south, and Point Pelee National Park, some 50km away to the southeast. The main Windsor shindig is the International Freedom Festival with all sorts of folksy events spread over an eighteen-day period in late June and early July.

Dieppe Gardens, stretching along the waterfront from the foot of Ouellette Avenue ­ and part of a longer riverside park ­ is a good place to view the audacious Detroit skyline. Close by, just to the east at the bottom of McDougall Street, is the fantastically popular and ultraglitzy Casino Windsor, which is open 24hrs a day, 365 days of the year. The casino has played a leading role in the rejuvenation of downtown Windsor, whose formative years are recalled at the Windsor Community Museum, one block south of the riverfront at 254 Pitt St W. The museum occupies a pretty brick house built in 1812 by Francois Baby, scion of a powerful French-Canadian clan who proved consistently loyal to the British interest after the fall of New France, an example of the money going with the power.

Back on the riverfront, the Art Gallery of Windsor, 401 Riverside Drive West, has a well-deserved reputation for the excellence of its temporary exhibitions. The permanent collection is first-rate too, its forte being late nineteenth - and early twentieth-century Canadian paintings. In particular, look out for some good examples from the Group of Seven ­ including Lawren Harris's skeletal Trees and Snow and the dramatic perspectives of Arthur Lismer's Incoming Tide, Cape Breton Island. Also on display is a splendid sample of Inuit art, with a particular highlight being Hunters and Polar Bear, a dark and elemental soapstone carving by Juanasialuk. There's more art at the open-air, open-access Sculpture Garden, a whimsical assortment of seventeen modern sculptures dotted along the riverfront lawn between Curry Avenue and the Ambassador Bridge, about 1.2km west of Ouellette Avenue. Lastly, you might venture further afield, some 3km east of the casino, to join a free tour of Hiram Walker & Sons Canadian Club Distillery, 2072 Riverside Drive E at Walker Road, on which guides explain how whiskey is manufactured. Windsor boomed during Prohibition from the proceeds of its liquor industry, with bootleggers smuggling vast quantities of whiskey across the border into the US.

Windsor Ontario has great opportunities for sport tournaments of all kinds. Sport tourism is a part of Windsor Ontario and it features a wide variety of sport tournament opportunities.