Windsor, Ontario Totally Explained

Everything about Windsor Ontario totally explained

Pollution

Windsor was called "The most polluted city in North America" by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who added that "A lot of the industries in Detroit, the air emissions make their way to Windsor. Windsor has some of the highest cancer rates, particularly thyroid cancer rates. Many other respiratory illnesses that are associated with pollution are more prevalent here than any other place in Canada. The air quality is regularly the worst in Canada. Windsor is downwind of a lot of really bad polluters." A 2001 Article in the Environmental Health Prospectives journal stated that "The rates of mortality, morbidity as hospitalizations, and congenital anomalies in the Windsor Area of Concern ranked among the highest of the 17 Areas of Concern on the Canadian side of the Great Lakes for selected end points that might be related to pollution in this relatively highly industrialized city." And that "Mortality and morbidity rates from all causes were higher than in the rest of the province." including other industrial municipalities such as Hamilton Ontario. Environment Canada has designated Windsor as "the smog capital of Canada" and Windsor's Citizens Environment Alliance holds a yearly art event entitled Smogfest to raise awareness of Windsor's appalling air quality.
During the summer of 2003, Transit Windsor provided free transit on smog action days. According to the Transit Windsor website, "The pilot project was extremely successful and drew interest from across the country and Europe from the media, industry and the general public. Transit experienced increases of up to 50 percent on smog advisory days when service was free. Hundreds of emails, phone calls and letters were received to say thanks for the service. In addition to local media coverage, feature stories were televised on The Weather Network and CBC's NewsWorld. Newspapers and radio stations across the nation also featured stories about this project." . Despite the success, the pilot project was cancelled after only 4 days.

Cityscape

Windsor's Department of Parks and Recreation maintains 3,000 acres (12 km²) of green space, 180 parks, 40 miles (64 km) of trails, 22 miles (35 km) of sidewalk, 60 parking lots, vacant lands, natural areas and forest cover within the city of Windsor, as well as the bike trails, bike lanes, and bike-friendly streets. The largest park is Mic Mac Park, which can accommodate many different activities including baseball, soccer, biking, and playgrounds for children. Windsor has numerous bike trails that criss-cross the city, the largest being the Ganatchio Trail on Windsor's far east side. In recent years, city council has pushed for the addition of bicycle lanes on city streets to provide links throughout the existing trail network.
The Windsor trail network is linked to LaSalle, Ontario's trail network ("LaSalle Trail") in the west end, and will eventually be linked up to the Chrysler Canada Greenway (part of the Trans Canada Trail), with a second branch to the trail via LaSalle within the next 10-15 years. The current greenway is a 42-km abandoned railway corridor that has been converted into multi-use recreational trail, underground utility corridor and a natural green space. The corridor begins south of Oldcastle, and continues south through the Towns of McGregor and Harrow. Here, it turns east and proceeds through Kingsville to Ruthven at Colasanti's Tropical Gardens. In the past several years, additional extensions have been purchased and currently, the Greenway is nearly 50 kilometres in length. The Greenway is one of Canada's most beautiful trails for hiking, biking running, birding, cross country skiing and in some areas, horseback riding. It connects natural areas, rich agricultural lands, historically and architecturally significant structures, award winning wineries and many other features that make the Windsor-Essex County Region unique. As a direct result from the city's portion of casino revenues, an upgraded 5-km landscaped trail has been filled along the riverfront with various modern and post-modern sculptures from artists in Essex County. Families of elephants (see picture), penguins and horses, among other themes intersect the trail.

Upgrades

In November 2007, the city completed the reconstruction of an aging rail overpass that at the intersection of Wyandotte Street and Drouillard Road. The overpass was built in the late 1930s. The rail bridge contains three tracks which are used by nearly a dozen VIA Rail trains per day and by the occasional Canadian National Railway train hauling goods to and from the Hiram Walker and Canadian Club distillery.
The rail bridge over Wyandotte Street East, east of Walker Road, has been demolished. It was abandoned in 1988. The underpass has been filled and Wyandotte Street is now at-grade. The reconstruction of the Walker Road and Wyandotte Street intersection is planned in the near future. Walker Road at Grand Marais Road is closed for the long-anticipated grade-separation project with the CP rail line. It will remain closed until November 2008. The portion of Grand Marais Road west of Walker Road will be re-opened as a cul-de-sac with no access to Walker Road, while the portion east of Walker Road will meet Walker Road at a below-grade intersection. After the Walker Road grade separation project is completed, a similar project will begin on the intersection with the same rail line and Howard Avenue. The intersection with Memorial Drive will be below-grade the meet the suken roadway. This entire project is being done by the Ontario provincial Ministry of Transportation, to help with improve the city of Windsor's border crossings (as the tracks lead to the Michigan Central Tunnel into Detroit, Michigan).

Culture and tourism

Windsor tourist attractions include Casino Windsor, a lively downtown, Little Italy, the Art Gallery of Windsor, the Odette Sculpture Park, Ojibway Park, and nearby Point Pelee National Park. Windsor was a major entry point into Canada for refugees from slavery via the Underground Railroad and a major source of liquor during American Prohibition. The Capital Theatre in downtown Windsor had been a venue for feature films, plays and other attractions since 1929, until it declared bankruptcy on March 14, 2007.
   Windsor's nickname is the "Rose City" or the "City of Roses" and the city is noted for its several large parks and gardens found on its waterfront. The Queen Elizabeth II Sunken Garden is located at Jackson Park in the central part of the city. A World War II era Avro Lancaster was displayed on a stand in the middle of Jackson Park for over four decades, but has since been removed for restoration. This park is now home to a mounted Spitfire replica and a Hurricane replica.
   Of the parks along Windsor's waterfront, the largest is the five-kilometre (three mile) stretch overlooking the Detroit skyline. It stretches from the Ambassador Bridge to the Hiram Walker Distillery. The western portion of the park contains the Odette Sculpture Park which features over 30 large-scale contemporary sculptures for public viewing, along with the Canadian Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The central portion contains Dieppe Gardens, Civic Terrace and Festival Plaza, and the eastern portion is home to the Bert Weeks Memorial Gardens. Further east along the waterfront is Coventry Gardens, across from Detroit's Belle Isle. The focal point of this park is the Charles Brooks Memorial Peace Fountain which actually floats in the Detroit River and has a coloured light display at night. The fountain is the largest of its kind in North America and symbolizes the peaceful relationship between Canada and the United States.
   Every summer Windsor co-hosts the two-week-long Windsor-Detroit International Freedom Festival, which culminates in a gigantic fireworks display that celebrates Canada Day and the American Independence Day. The fireworks display is among the world's largest and is held on the final Wednesday in June on the Detroit River between the two downtowns. Each year, the event attracts over a million spectators to both sides of the riverfront. In 2008 the fireworks will be held on Wednesday, June 23.
   Windsor has also been the place where many metro Detroiters find what is forbidden in the United States. With the minimum legal drinking age at twenty-one in Michigan and nineteen in Ontario, a number of nineteen and twenty year-old Americans frequent Windsor's bars. The city also became a gaming attraction with Casino Windsor's opening in 1994, five years before casinos opened in Detroit. In addition, one can purchase Cuban cigars, less-costly prescription drugs, certain imported foods, and other items not available in the United States.

Media

Windsor is considered part of the Detroit television and radio market for purposes of territorial rights. Due to this fact, and its proximity to Toledo and Cleveland, radio and television broadcasters in Windsor are accorded a special status by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, exempting them from many of the Canadian content ("CanCon") requirements most broadcasters in Canada are required to follow. The CanCon requirements are sometimes blamed in part for the decline in popularity of Windsor radio station CKLW, a 50,000 watt AM radio station that in the late 1960s (prior to the advent of CanCon) had been the number one radio station not only in Detroit and Windsor, but also in Toledo and Cleveland.
Windsor is also exempt from concentration of media ownership rules: all of its commercial broadcast outlets are owned by a single company, CTVglobemedia, although Blackburn Radio-owned CKUE-FM has a booster station on 100.7 FM in Windsor, as well has its studios and offices located at Wyandotte St. E and Walker Rd. in Walkerville.

Radio

540 AM - CBEF, La Première Chaîne
580 AM - CKWW, oldies
800 AM - CKLW, news/talk
1550 AM - CBE, CBC Radio One
88.7 FM - CIMX, 89X modern rock
89.9 FM - CBE, CBC Radio Two
91.5 FM - CJAM, University of Windsor campus radio
93.9 FM - CIDR, The River 93.9 adult contemporary
100.7 FM - CKUE, The Rock active rock (rebroadcaster of a station from Chatham-Kent)
103.9 FM - CJBC-2, Espace Musique

New services
On May 9, 2008, the CRTC has approved the following application by Blackburn Radio Inc. and has approved in part for the following application by Neeti P. Ray, on behalf of a corporation to be incorporated, for a new radio station undertaking at Windsor, Ontario. (External Link) The commission has also approved the following applications by the CBC to add FM transmitters to rebroadcast the AM signals of CBE and CBEF in Windsor. (External Link) See also .
Television

Channel 9 - CBET, CBC
Channel 22 - CIII, Global Television, from Stevenson, northeast of Wheatley
Channel 32 - CICO-32, TVOntario
Channel 54 - CBEFT, SRC
Channel 60 - CHWI, A-Channel Almost all of Detroit's television stations (with the exception of a few very low-power transmitters) can also be seen in Windsor, as well as some stations from Toledo and Cleveland.
Curiously, Windsor doesn't receive a clear over-the-air signal from CTV. CKCO-TV's Sarnia translator only puts a marginal signal into the city, but is available on cable. This is the same with Global's transmitter in Stevenson, Ontario, which serves Chatham-Kent, and sends only a marginal signal to the Windsor area.
Print
Windsor and its surrounding area is served by the Windsor Star, a daily newspaper operated by CanWest Global Communications.
"Windsor Life" is a magazine sent to residents every month or so. Biz X magazine is a business and lifestyle publication serving Windsor and Metro Detroit for over 11 years. Its publisher, Deborah Jones, was the recipient of 2007 Windsor Business Excellence "Entrepreneur of the Year" Award as seen here at the Windsor Chamber of Commerce Windsor Business Excellence Awards website
Film
Windsor has figured in a number of films:

A number of scenes featuring Harrison Ford in the 1990 film Presumed Innocent were filmed in Windsor's Coventry Gardens. The house in the film is located on Riverside Dr. just east of the Hiram Walker Distillery. The scenes of the Renaissance Center in the film were shot from Windsor.
It is featured in the backdrop of Tony Scott's 1993 film True Romance. Windsor can clearly be seen in the background during the Christian Slater/Dennis Hopper trailer scene along the Detroit River.
The 2000 film Borderline Normal, featuring Robin Dunne, Stephanie Zimbalist, Corbin Bernsen and Michael Ironside, is set in Windsor. Many exterior locations, such as Ouellette Avenue, Dieppe Park and the Ambassador Bridge were featured.
The 2002 film Bowling for Columbine had several scenes including a snow scene filmed in Windsor, Ontario. Director Michael Moore returned to Windsor to film scenes for his 2007 film Sicko.

The 2007 film Baby Blues starring Jenny Levine, Sean O'Neil, Melanie Scrofano, and Michie Mee was shot throughout Windsor, Ontario. The film is scheduled for a Canadian theatrical release in Windsor on January 11, 2008 and nation-wide the following weekend.
Education
Windsor is home to the University of Windsor, which is Canada's southernmost university. It is a research oriented, comprehensive university. It has a student population of over 15,000 full-time and part-time undergraduate students and over 1000 graduate students. The university is just east of the Ambassador Bridge, south of the Detroit River. Windsor is also home to St. Clair College, a community college.
   Windsor is home to two International Baccalaureate recognized schools, Assumption College School, a Catholic high school, and Académie Ste. Cécile International School, a private school. Also, another school, namely Hon. Vincent Massey Secondary School, is renowned in Canada and North America for notable accomplishments in mathematics.
   Residents attend schools in the Greater Essex County District School Board, the Windsor-Essex Catholic District School Board, Conseil scolaire de district des écoles catholiques du Sud-Ouest and Conseil scolaire de district du Centre-Sud-Ouest. Independent faith-based schools include Maranatha Christian Academy (JK-12), First Lutheran Christian Academy (preschool-8), and Académie Ste. Cécile International School (JK-12, including International Baccalaureate), and Windsor Adventist Elementary School. Windsor public library offers education, entertainment and community history materials, programs and services. The main branch coordinates a literacy program for adults needing functional literacy upgrading.
Infrastructure

Health systems
There are two hospitals in Windsor, Hotel Dieu Grace Hospital and Windsor Regional Hospital. Hotel Dieu Grace is the result of an amalgamation of Grace Hospital and Hotel Dieu in 1994. The merger was a result of the Government of Ontario's province-wide policy to consolidate resources into Local Health Integrated Networks, or LHINs, which aimed to eliminate duplicate services and allocate resources more efficiently and regionally. This policy resulted in the eventual closure of many community-based and historically important hospitals across the province. Accordingly, two of Windsor's independent hospitals - Metropolitan General Hospital on Lens Ave and Windsor Western Hospital on Prince Road were joined to form Windsor Regional Hospital. The original hospital sites remain but are administratively centralized through the new collective structure.
   Windsor hospitals have formal and informal agreements with Detroit area hospitals. For instance, pediatric neurosurgery is no longer performed in Windsor; The Windsor Star reported in July 2007, Hotel Dieu Grace has formally instituted an agreement with Detroit's Harper Hospital to provide this specialty and surgery for the dozen patients requiring care annually. Leamington District Memorial Hospital in Leamington, Ontario serves much of Essex County and, along with the Windsor institutions, share resources with the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance.
   Like many Ontario communities, Windsor and Essex County experience a shortage of medical doctors. Patients needing a family doctor often wait for years to get one, and thus often seek care through medical walk-in clinics. However, the Essex County Medical Society does list family doctors accepting patients. In particular fields, the shortage is more pronounced and recruitment of physicians is a constant preoccupation of the administration, as evident by Leamington District Memorial Hospital's website.
Transportation
� See also: Roads in Windsor, Ontario, and Bike trails in Windsor, Ontario.

Windsor is the western terminus of both Highway 401, Canada's busiest highway, and of VIA Rail's Quebec City-Windsor Corridor. The city is served by Windsor Airport with regular, scheduled commuter air service by Air Canada Jazz and heavy general aviation traffic. The Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport is located roughly 20-30 minutes across the border in Romulus, Michigan and is the airport of choice for many Windsor residents as it has regular flights to a larger variety of destinations than Windsor Airport (External Link

). Windsor is also located on the St. Lawrence Seaway, and is accessible to ocean-going vessels.
   Local transportation is handled by Transit Windsor, the city-owned bus company, which shares its newly-constructed $8-million downtown depot with Greyhound Lines. The new depot was opened in late June to correspond with the Summer 2007 Transit Schedule. Windsor has completed a municipal highway, E.C. Row Expressway, running from east-west through the city. Consisting of 15.7 kilometres (10 mi) of highway and nine interchanges, the expressway is the fastest way for commuters to travel across the city. E.C. Row Expressway is actually in the Guinness Book of Records as the shortest freeway that took the longest time to build. It is only 16 km (11 miles) long but took more than 15 years to complete, hence the popular local saying "it's 16 kilometers long, took 16 years to build, and fell apart in 16 seconds". The expressway stretches from Windsor's far west end at Ojibway Parkway east to Banwell Road on the city's border with Tecumseh.
   As Windsor's development has sprawled out along the banks of the Detroit river and Lake St Clair, the city is wider than it's deep meaning that the majority of development stretches along the water instead of in-land. Due to this trend, there's a severe lack of east-west arteries compared to north-south arteries. Only Riverside Drive (even though it's meant to be a scenic route rather than a commuter thoroughfare), Wyandotte Street, Tecumseh Road and the E.C. Row Expressway serve the over 20 km from the west end of Windsor eastward. All of these roads are already over-burdened with east-west commuter traffic from the booming development in the city's eastern end and suburbs.
   The construction of the E.C. Row Expressway split the city in half. There are eight north-south roads (and expressway interchanges) of Huron Church Road, Dominion Boulevard, Dougall Avenue, Howard Avenue, Walker Road, Central Ave, Jefferson Boulevard and Lauzon Parkway. Including three bike trails that cross E.C. Row Expressway, the total increases to 11 north-south arteries. Traffic backups on some of these north-south roads at the E.C. Row Expressway are common.
   Windsor's many rail crossings intersect with these north-south thoroughfares. The Province of Ontario is currently constructing a grade separation at Walker Road and the CP Rail line. Another grade separation is currently under review at Howard Avenue and the CP Rail line. In both cases, the road will travel under the rail lines and both will have below grade intersections with an east-west street. These plans are both parts of the "Let's Get Windsor-Essex Moving" project funded by the Province of Ontario to improve local transportation infrastructure. There also plans to widen Banwell Road south of Tecumseh Road to the rail line just south of Intersection Road.
   The city is connected to Essex and Leamington via Highway 3, and is well connected to the other municipalities and communities throughout Essex County via the county road network. Nearly 17,000 vehicles travel on Highway 3 on a daily basis. It is the main route to work for many residents of Leamington, Kingsville and Essex.
   Windsor is linked to the United States by the Ambassador Bridge, the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel, a Canadian Pacific Railway tunnel, and the Detroit-Windsor Truck Ferry. The Ambassador Bridge is North America's #1 international border crossing in terms of goods volume: 27% of all trade between Canada and the United States crosses at the Ambassador Bridge.
   Though usually considered as part of its park system, Windsor also has a fairly extensive bike trail network. Three trails in particular have been built and extended (Riverfront Bike Trail, Ganatchio Bike Trail, and Little River Extension). These see a great deal of use by citizens in Windsor, and have become a blend of parkland and transportation, as people have begun to commute to work or across downtown on their bicycles.
   Port Windsor is located on the Great Lakes/St. Lawrence Seaway System, on the Detroit River opposite Detroit, Michigan. The port is the third largest Canadian Great Lakes port in terms of shipments.

Ambassador Bridge

A current issue in Windsor is traffic around the Ambassador Bridge. The number of vehicles crossing the bridge has doubled in the past fifteen years (since 1990) and, since the September 11, 2001 attacks, travelling through customs on the U.S. side takes much longer. The only way to access the bridge or tunnel is from three municipal roads: Huron Church Road (bridge), Wyandotte Street (bridge or tunnel), and Goyeau Street (tunnel). A large portion of the traffic is 18-wheeler trucks. There have been at times a wall of trucks up to eight kilometres (five miles) long on Huron Church Road. This road cuts through the west end of the city and the trucks are the source of many complaints about noise, pollution and pedestrian hazards. While in a very good state of repair in most sections, Huron Church Road had the distinction of being number 17 on a list of Canada's worst roads, due to the sheer volume of truck traffic (over 14,000 trucks per day with an additional 4,000 cars per day).
   In the summer of 2003, the Windsor City Council was hearing so many complaints from residents in Sandwich Towne Neighbourhood and the West side neighbourhoods that they proposed banning all truck traffic from city streets within the city limits. This was met with strong protests from Queen's Park (Toronto), Parliament Hill (Ottawa), and from Sarnia, Ontario, which operates the nearest bridge, the Blue Water Bridge. Sarnia's city council feared a tsunami of trucks lining up along Highway 402 and I-69/94 to cross the border, if Windsor banned them from its city streets. Windsor, Toronto, and Ottawa quickly reached an agreement that saw the province re-assume E.C. Row Expressway as provincially-controlled and maintained (albeit, secret and un-numbered) freeway, and the City of Windsor would gain $300 million from the Federal government for assistance in repairing Huron Church Road and Wyandotte Street from the constant pounding of truck wheels on the pavement.
   Windsor paid world famous traffic consultant Sam Schwartz to produce a proposal for a solution to this traffic problem. The city councillors have overwhelmingly endorsed the proposal and it was presented to the federal government as the solution that the city officially approves. Unfortunately, not all of the surrounding residents support the plan the city paid for. The problem with the plan is that the proposed roadway would cut through protected green space such as Ojibway Park. The federal government wasn't expecting the city to be able to agree upon a proposal of any sort and are now pushing for short term, cheaper solutions.
   On November 14, 2005, the joint Canadian-American committee studying the options for expanding the border crossing announced that its preferred option was to directly extend Highway 401 westward, using a new bridge or tunnel to cross the Detroit River and interchange with Interstate 75 somewhere between the existing Ambassador Bridge span and Wyandotte. The exact route of this new highway connection hasn't yet been determined . February 8, 2008 saw surprising updates in the border crossing debate. The Ontario Ministry of Transportation had announced it was buying houses on the southwest side of Windsor, near Yawkey Bush for an extension of Highway 401. The province said they'd liked the City of Windsor's "GreenLink" proposal ("sinking" Talbot Road and Huron Church Road underground, creating parkland above it, with the ramps coming out to meet the local traffic running alongside and E.C. Row Expressway, before separating and heading towards a bridge to I-75 near Zug Island). However, the bi-national government committee responsible for choosing the feeder road to the new bridge unveiled their plan on May 1 2008 and makes little progress in terms of tailoring the plan to the more environmentally friendly and locally preferred Greenlink. See Highway 401 (Ontario)#Future_expansion_and_upgrades for more information.

Sister cities

Windsor has several sister cities in the world - dates are in parentheses:

Lublin, Poland

Saint-Étienne, France (1963)

Fujisawa, Japan (1987)

Coventry, England (1963)

Mannheim, Germany

Las Vueltas, El Salvador

Changchun, China

Gunsan, South Korea

Saltillo, Mexico

Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia

Udine, Italy

Granby, Quebec, Canada Windsor also has a very close relationship with fellow Motor City:

Detroit, Michigan

Sports teams

Windsor's sports fans tend to support the major professional sports league teams in nearby Detroit, but the city itself is home to the following youth, minor league, post-secondary and professional teams. Many Windsor sports teams at the amateur level are sponsored by the AKO Fraternity.

Windsor Spitfires (Ontario Hockey League Major Junior "A")

Windsor St. Clair Saints (Major League Hockey Senior "AAA")

Windsor AKO Fratmen (Ontario Lacrosse Association Junior "B")

Windsor AKO Fratmen (Canadian Junior Football League)

Windsor Border Stars (Canadian Soccer League)

Windsor Mariners (Ontario Australian Football League)

Windsor Lancers (Canadian Interuniversity Sport)

St. Clair Saints (Canadian Colleges Athletic Association)

Windsor Rogues Rugby(External Link

)(Ontario Rugby Union (ORU))

Windsor FC Nationals (Ontario Youth Soccer League)(Western Ontario Youth Soccer League)

Windsor Fight Team (Mixed Martial Arts) In addition to these teams, Windsor has been lobbying for a Canadian Football League franchise. This franchise (if awarded) would play its regular-season home games in Windsor and possibly their playoff games in Pontiac, a suburb of Detroit. Former CFL commissioner Tom Wright met with Windsor mayor Eddie Francis about possible expansion to Windsor during the run-up to Super Bowl XL, in which Windsor played a major role although the game itself was held in Detroit. Shortly thereafter, media in the Windsor Star and other local news sources criticized this as an unrealistic pipe dream.
Former teams

Detroit Cougars (National Hockey League) entire 1926-27 season

Windsor Bulldogs (OHA Senior A Hockey League) 1953-1964, won 1963 Allan Cup)

Windsor Royals/Bulldogs (Western Ontario Hockey League) now known as Tecumseh Chiefs

Windsor Bulldogs (Canadian Professional Hockey League) 1920s and 1930s

Windsor Hornets (Canadian Professional Hockey League) 1920s

Windsor Gotfredsons (International Hockey League) 1940s

Windsor Spitfires (International Hockey League) 1940s

Windsor Warlocks (Major Series Lacrosse) 2004

Windsor Clippers (OLA Senior B Lacrosse League) 1960s

Windsor Warlocks (OLA Junior A Lacrosse League) 1970s
Famous people
Also refer to
Business

Thomas LaSorda, CEO of Chrysler Group

Hiram Walker

J. Paul Reddam, Academic, businessman, racehorse owner
Sports

Aaron Ward, National Hockey League (NHL) player

Oshiomogho Atogwe, National Football League (NFL) player W.F Herman Green Griffins

Reno Bertoia, MLB baseball player

Hank Biasatti, Major League Baseball (MLB) player, National Basketball Association basketball player

Bob Boughner, former NHL hockey player, now head coach and part-owner of Ontario Hockey League's Windsor Spitfires

Sean Burke, NHL hockey player

Stubby Clapp, former MLB baseball player

Sharon Creelman, field hockey player

Johnny Devine, TNA Wrestler

Scott D'Amore, TNA Wrestling personality and agent

Ken Daneyko, former NHL hockey player

Andy Delmore, NHL hockey player

Tie Domi, former NHL hockey player

Ron Fellows, Race car driver

John Ferguson Sr, former NHL player and executive

Dan Jancevski, NHL hockey player

Ed Jovanovski, NHL hockey player

Killer Kowalski, professional wrestler and trainer

Tim Kerr, former NHL hockey player

Steve Moore, former NHL hockey player

Bob Probert, former NHL hockey player

Brett Romberg, NFL football player

Joel Quenneville, NHL hockey coach and former player

Larry Shreve, National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) professional wrestler known as Abdullah the Butcher

Joe Siddall, former MLB baseball player

Jimmy Skinner, 1917-2007 former NHL hockey coach and executive

John Tucker, former NHL hockey player

Kyle Wellwood, NHL hockey player

Ron Wilson, NHL hockey coach

Petey Williams, professional wrestler for TNA Wrestling

Gavin Stevenson, National Lacrosse League player
Art and entertainment

Garth Hudson, organist and keyboardist for Canadian rock n roll group The Band.

James Bondy, entertainer, star of the children's show Ribert and Robert's Wonderworld

Jeff Burrows, drummer of The Tea Party

Stuart Chatwood, bass player of The Tea Party/composer

Ashley Coulter, Canadian Idol 2006 Finalist

Colm Feore, actor

Marty Gervais, poet and publisher

Barbara Gowdy, novelist

Richie Hawtin, techno musician

Jeff Martin, former guitarist and lead vocalist of The Tea Party

Terry Pickford, award-winning Hollywood producer/editor

Oliver Platt, television and film actor

Jody Raffoul, singer

Jack Scott, rockabilly singer

Alexander 'Skip' Spence, composer, multi-instrumentalist, member of Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape

Tamia, R&B singer

Shania Twain, singer

Christian Vincent, actor, dancer, choreographer
Politics

Ernie Eves, former Premier of Ontario

Herb Gray, former Liberal Member of Parliament and former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada

Paul Martin, Liberal former Prime Minister of Canada

Paul Martin, Sr., longtime federal cabinet minister and father of the former PM

John Swainson, Governor of Michigan 1961-1963
Sciences

David H. Hubel, research scientist and Nobel Prize winner.

Mike Lazaridis, research scientist and CEO of Research in MotionFurther Information
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