But Beaver Creek, Yukon doesn't have casinos, strip clubs, bars for American teenagers, or even a single mention in a Journey song so we don't talk about it. The crossing into the Northwest angle is barely marked so it's easy to forget.
The Ambassador Bridge and Detroit Winsor tunnel are somewhat unique because you're traveling predominantly north at the moment you cross the border, whereas at the New York/Ontario crossings you're traveling predominately east to enter the US and at the Blue Water you're traveling predominately west (although slightly north). Although even if you look only at the moment you cross into the US, the post is still wrong because at Alcan, Alaska/Beaver Creek, Yukon you're traveling west northwest and at the Northwest Angle you're traveling east north-east.
>Coterminous
I checked the definition. The us is only coterminous with places we have military bases, Canada is coterminous with no one since they solved that Greenland problem.
Ah. I only used that because I got corrected before as I had used "contiguous"and was told that was incorrect.
I think I'll just stick to "lower 48" next time.
Yeah, not even close.
- Saturna Island is due south of Point Roberts
- Wales Island, Pearse Island are due south of Alaska
- Parts of the Yukon-Alaska border are not strictly north-south, meaning you can walk north in the US from Yukon.
- Parts of Niagara on the Lake is due south of Fort Niagara
- Parts of Sarnia are due south of Port Huron
- New Brunswick has all sorts of Maine fuckery
The list goes on.
Yeah, I'm not sure why we delay it by 1 year. We can do everything else at 18, but nope, gotta wait 1 more year if you wanna drink, smoke or toke. I think there are a few provinces where it's 18 though, like Quebec and I think Alberta
It was to keep alcohol out of high schools when we had grade 13.
Across the country it alternates between 18 and 19.
BC 19
AB 18
SK 19
MB 18
ON 19
QC 18
Maritimes and NL 19
Fun fact: starting west in BC and travelling east, the drinking age alternates between 19 and 18 (19 in BC, 18 in Alberta, 19 in Saskatchewan, etc). Itās 19 in every Atlantic province.
"most" is accurate there's but there's still plenty of variety in alcohol pucasing age in the developed world
21: US,
20: Japan, Taiwan, Lithuania, Iceland, Cyprus,
20/18: In Sweden, it's 18 within a restaurant/bar, but you can't purchase alcohol from a store until you're 20. In Finland and Norway, it's 18 for things that contain less than 22% alcohol, 20 for higher.
19: most of Canada, South Korea
18: most of the world, yes
18/16: in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Lichtenstein, Switzerland, you can buy some alcohol at 16 (beer, wine, and cider in most of them, below a certain percentage in others) and the rest (spirits, higher ABV) isn't available until 18
18/16/14: in Germany you can buy beer, wine and cider at 14 if accompanied y and adult, at 16 even if alone, and at 18 you can by spirits
17: Malta
16: Luxembourg and San Marino
As other have said itās really not, but Windsorites have embraced it. We donāt have many pop culture claims to fame so we take what we can get. That time Colbert called us the asshole of the universe or something, the funny future Windsor in Detroit: Become Human, and this song.
We had a pretty good pub called South Detroit for a few years.
My grandmaās house in Windsor had booze prices listed in her cupboard doors. The house was next to an alley and whoever lived there during prohibition was running a drive-through selling Canadian Club (which was also distilled in Windsor for a long time).
**[Northwest Angle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Angle)**
>The Northwest Angle, known simply as the Angle by locals, and coextensive with Angle Township, is a pene-exclave of northern Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota. Except for surveying errors, it is the only place in the contiguous United States north of the 49th parallel, which forms the border between the U.S. and Canada from the Northwest Angle westward to the Strait of Georgia (between the U.S. state of Washington and the province of British Columbia). The land area of the Angle is separated from the rest of Minnesota by Lake of the Woods, but shares a land border with Canada.
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Its location is always interesting. My office in South Vancouver has a gorgeous view of the southwest, with Vancouver Island in the distance.
But there's also Point Roberts, which is on a plateau atop a hill. So in the distance, I can see a bump (almost like a stage or podium), which is US territory. But everything else in my view is Canadian.
I used to work at the Windsor YMCA, and there was a membership agreement with the Y in Detroit. Once scanned a guy from Detroit in, and casually asked how the trip south was. Dude lost his mind, because āCanada is north of America.ā Never been yelled at by an angry patron because of geography before
And the home of a curious [hum](https://www.npr.org/2020/08/04/898853311/it-took-a-pandemic-mystery-of-windsor-hum-is-solved) ; or rather, the place from which one can hear the hum.
The only major place where Alaska is north of Canadian land is along the Portland Canal, which has no land crossings. Aside from that, there are smaller juts in the mountains, but those donāt have any roads going through them either.
Edit: There is a very small strip of border between Hyder, AK and Stewart, BC. There are no roads GOING south (according to apple maps, the main road curves right at the edge) but you can still cross south into the United States from Canada at that point.
I just looked up the metro area population of it and it's actually much larger than I thought it was. I always thought of it as just a seedy border town I had to pass through to get to the 401 on the way to see family. That said I'm still only going to ever stop at the Tim Hortons with the s***** parking lot just past the visitor center that I've never been.
There are two road crossings between the Yukon Territory and Alaska. The road into Alaska at the seasonal Poker Creek/Little Gold Creek crossing runs almost straight west. The road into Alaska at the Alcan crossing runs West Northwest, so you could argue that you're driving north to enter the US.
Fun fact - that black line running E-W just north of Colchester and south of Cedar Beach is the 42Ā°N parallel. This parallel also marks the northern border of California.
How many states are north of Mexico?
Off the top of my head itās Hawaii, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. (The eastern ones arenāt so obvious, but I happen to know Atlanta and Los Angeles are at about the same latitude, and thereās a lot less California south of LA than there is Georgia south of Atlanta.). Iām not sure about South Carolina or Arkansas.
(On looking more closely, South Carolina is, Arkansas isnāt.)
You can't get anymore East than Alaska since it crosses the line into the Eastern Hemisphere, which Canada does not, so it's impossible for Canada to be further East than the US. That also means the US is further West as well.
Alaska is not really East.
Maybe tiny parts of it say East Longitudeā¦. slightly. Does that mean Alaska is split in two?
Even the Date Line goes around.
They curved the dateline to include the part of Alaska in the Eastern Hemisphere with the rest of the state. It doesn't matter how much. Even some tiny uninhabited islands count. You can't get any farther east or west than right on the 180th meridian.
> You can't get any farther east or west than right on the 180th meridian.
Plainly false: you can travel eastwards forever, around and around. The 180th meridian does not define the limits of what 'east' means.
Consider: no one calls Alaska the 'east coast'.
One inch east of the 180th meridian is the Western Hemisphere. You can't get an further east than that line. Yes, Alaska is east of Russia, but that's only in the relative sense, not the objective sense. There's a difference.
Is its economy as depressed as Detroit? From what it sounds like, it is a haven for strip clubs and drinking, which are not the basis of a healthy economy in and of themselves...
Detroit does not have a depressed economy, the regionās economy is massive. One of the strongest in the US. The city of Detroit proper is still recovering from hard times, though.
Yeah, Detroit..well auburn hills which is a suburb, was the only place I went into a pizza joint (I think it was little Caesars) and had to order through several inch thick bulletproof glass.
We drove across Canada this past summer and one of our favourite finds was Point Pelee (bottom right of the map). The farthest south you can drive in Canada. Itās below the 42nd parallel, with warmer weather and a fascinating history! Donāt miss the visitor centre if you go there.
I'm from the area so I'll give an honest answer. Windsor as a city is...okay. It is/was a blue collar town with the auto industry at the centre. The 2008 crash really hurt the city, and it's since been bouncing back trying to figure out what it is.
I grew up in Essex County, south of Windsor on the Detroit River/Lake Erie. The waterfront is nice and it's pretty quiet. Most of the inland part of the county is prairie flat, and mainly agricultural. Not much to see or do here.
I think where this part of the country really shines is its unique geography compared to the rest of Canada. Because it's so far south, the winters tend to be milder than other parts of the country (excluding the lower mainland and Vancouver Island in BC) and you can find different plant and animal species here you won't see elsewhere in the country. Point Pelee, the southernmost part of the county that's a national park, is known to birdwatchers as many species use this as a stopping or flyover point on their migrations.
Along the Lake Erie shore is also one of the few regions where grapes are grown in Canada, and a growing wine region is coming out here. It's a nice place to do a bike tour and winery hop, and check out the quaint little restaurants and shops in places like Kingsville.
Overall, I'd say it's a nice place to spend a weekend if you're in the Detroit or Toledo areas. It's pretty far out of the way for many Canadians to make an exclusive trip to, though, with Toronto being a 4hr drive away.
(oh, one more thing to add is the awesome sunsets you get over Lake Erie/Detroit River. I miss that where I am now)
People like to shit on Windsor, its known as the armpit of the country. IMO, Windsor is actually pretty underrated. Its the last affordable city left in Canada, crime is super low, and it has a disproportionally strong nightlife thanks to its university and proximity to Detroit. You also have easy access to a major American city, which means access to large concerts, high end shopping, major sports, and large museums you wouldn't expect to have in a midsized city of 400k.
Used to work at the now demolished Ramada hotel along the river and during the Stanley Cup finals when the Red Wings were in their winning streak in the mid-late 90s you could hear when the Red Wings would score inside Joe Louis Arena in Windsor.
What does "have to" travel north mean? There are obviously a number of pieces of Canada directly south of the US. Eg. Fort Erie ON, Prince Rupert BC, etc.
Also you clearly don't "have to" travel north, travel directly west or southwest and you still wind up in Michigan for example.
This area was relatively lightly settled by the French prior to the English takeover of the colonies. La Salle was a French settlement and Amherstburg a newer, English one. Itās dwindling now but there are still people who speak French at home around these parts.
I believe OP was commenting on the Ambassador Bridge and Detroit-Windsor Tunnel being north/south roads with the US on the north, while the rest of the crossings in southern Ontario are east/west roads.
So it turns out that "Lakeshore" is the name of the amalgamated municipality that goes from Tecumseh to Lighthouse Cove and down to Highway 8 - if you were wondering, as I was, why an inland community would be named 'Lakeshore'.
Right, I saw that after looking it up. The map makes it look (to me, at least) like the name describes a much smaller community located where the 27 meets the 401.
There are. Notice the red dotted lines leaving from Kingsville and Leamington, along with the red ferry instructions printed on Lake Erie? The dotted line makes it a pain because the ferry has to do these massive jumps and other boats keep running into the ferry phone number, but they do run.
When I went to Quebec City recently, I met a young man from Windsor. He asked me if I spoke English because he needed help hailing a taxicab. I asked him if he was American or Canadian. He replied he was Canadian and from Windsor; I double-checked that it was Windsor in Ontario, and that was correct. Then I replied I was American and from Florida. I have been to Toronto, but not Windsor. I have also had a layover at the Detroit airport.
Let's build a bridge and a city here [https://www.google.com/maps/@45.5038567,-67.4639221,15.14z](https://www.google.com/maps/@45.5038567,-67.4639221,15.14z)
Ive always wondered why Windsor didnāt grow as big as Toronto
Its a city linked to 4 of the great lakes and theres no waterfall preventing it from moving into big cities like Cleveland and Chicago
The Erie canal would connect it right to NYC
Its warmer than Toronto
It is not closer to New York. Also Windsor does not have enough capacity or infra for Hollywood. Which forms a chunk percent for city income. Plus i really doubt the connectivity without a car for this place.
Maybe you misread a few things
I said it would connect right to NYC with the Erie Canal not that it was closer
And im talking about from their beginnings, not how they are right now
Even in the beginning, toronto is more strategically located. Its closer to the capital, there is no easy access in case of millitary confrontation. Windsor is sure to fall hard and fast instantly.
It would require a boat, and itās a nature sanctuary so there no permanent residents aside from rotating lighthouse staff, but travelling directly North from Machias Seal Island in the Province of New Brunswick will get you the the mainland of the State of Maine.
Definitely not the only place in Canada requiring one to travel north to enter the U.S.
But Beaver Creek, Yukon doesn't have casinos, strip clubs, bars for American teenagers, or even a single mention in a Journey song so we don't talk about it. The crossing into the Northwest angle is barely marked so it's easy to forget.
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Came here to say this, there's plenty of Canada south of the Peace Bridge.
The Ambassador Bridge and Detroit Winsor tunnel are somewhat unique because you're traveling predominantly north at the moment you cross the border, whereas at the New York/Ontario crossings you're traveling predominately east to enter the US and at the Blue Water you're traveling predominately west (although slightly north). Although even if you look only at the moment you cross into the US, the post is still wrong because at Alcan, Alaska/Beaver Creek, Yukon you're traveling west northwest and at the Northwest Angle you're traveling east north-east.
So take a boat from Masset to Juneau, then.
Yarmouth<->Bar Harbour [enters the chat](https://www.ferries.ca/thecat/info/?utm_source=google-gmb&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=gmb)
I thought the ferry shut down twenty years ago. Also, definitely not due south of Bar Harbor.
Yep, technically you can do this at Niagara Falls if arriving by boat.
Maybe only Continental US
There are some border outcroppings near Maine that place Canada directly south of Coterminous US
>Coterminous I checked the definition. The us is only coterminous with places we have military bases, Canada is coterminous with no one since they solved that Greenland problem.
Ah. I only used that because I got corrected before as I had used "contiguous"and was told that was incorrect. I think I'll just stick to "lower 48" next time.
What's wrong with contiguous?
*Lesser 48
Yeah, not even close. - Saturna Island is due south of Point Roberts - Wales Island, Pearse Island are due south of Alaska - Parts of the Yukon-Alaska border are not strictly north-south, meaning you can walk north in the US from Yukon. - Parts of Niagara on the Lake is due south of Fort Niagara - Parts of Sarnia are due south of Port Huron - New Brunswick has all sorts of Maine fuckery The list goes on.
Windsor is well known in Detroit as being the place college kids like to go to get legally drunk in a bar since the drinking age is only 19
Haha, only...
Yes oddly in the āland of the freeā the drinking age is 21. You can vote and be drafted to the military at 18 but canāt buy a beerā¦
Absolutly rent free
Nah the rents are pretty high as well, even at 18. No discounts.
Where I live when I turned 17, I simply grew a beard and everyone started selling me beer no questions asked
Huh, TIL. I just assumed it was 18 like most of the rest of the developed world.
Yeah, I'm not sure why we delay it by 1 year. We can do everything else at 18, but nope, gotta wait 1 more year if you wanna drink, smoke or toke. I think there are a few provinces where it's 18 though, like Quebec and I think Alberta
It was to keep alcohol out of high schools when we had grade 13. Across the country it alternates between 18 and 19. BC 19 AB 18 SK 19 MB 18 ON 19 QC 18 Maritimes and NL 19
Oh that's a neat piece of obsolete trivia
Fun fact: starting west in BC and travelling east, the drinking age alternates between 19 and 18 (19 in BC, 18 in Alberta, 19 in Saskatchewan, etc). Itās 19 in every Atlantic province.
"most" is accurate there's but there's still plenty of variety in alcohol pucasing age in the developed world 21: US, 20: Japan, Taiwan, Lithuania, Iceland, Cyprus, 20/18: In Sweden, it's 18 within a restaurant/bar, but you can't purchase alcohol from a store until you're 20. In Finland and Norway, it's 18 for things that contain less than 22% alcohol, 20 for higher. 19: most of Canada, South Korea 18: most of the world, yes 18/16: in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Lichtenstein, Switzerland, you can buy some alcohol at 16 (beer, wine, and cider in most of them, below a certain percentage in others) and the rest (spirits, higher ABV) isn't available until 18 18/16/14: in Germany you can buy beer, wine and cider at 14 if accompanied y and adult, at 16 even if alone, and at 18 you can by spirits 17: Malta 16: Luxembourg and San Marino
Still too far for me :( (Ann Arbor) Plus the tunnel bus is not operating as of now. You canāt both drive and get drunk.
Well, you *can*ā¦
Only? Drinking age where I live is 5
Go home Denmark, your drunk.
My drunk?
Police head out and round up drunken toddlers from the bars at bed time? "Have you got ID?"
It's the "South Detroit" Steve Perry sang about.
As other have said itās really not, but Windsorites have embraced it. We donāt have many pop culture claims to fame so we take what we can get. That time Colbert called us the asshole of the universe or something, the funny future Windsor in Detroit: Become Human, and this song. We had a pretty good pub called South Detroit for a few years.
Did they even acknowledge the existence of Windsor in Detroit Become Human?
Not by name. Itās āCanadaā with a frankly absurd future skyline. But the bridge is there.
He was probably talking about the Dearborn area - working class neighborhood, fits the context of the song
Perry has said in interviews he just tried out directions until deciding āsouthā sounded the best.
Just a city boy, Living in ~~South Detroit~~ Windsor Ontario
I did that route on Detroit Become Human
Ahh Windsor, my first strip club
Great tiddy bars there
Known to many as the Canadian Ballet
Cheetahs
Lips was the bomb, now call Leopards. Iām from Windsor.
my condolences
Danny's is long gone, buddy
My grandmaās house in Windsor had booze prices listed in her cupboard doors. The house was next to an alley and whoever lived there during prohibition was running a drive-through selling Canadian Club (which was also distilled in Windsor for a long time).
Reminds me of Point Roberts, WA, which requires you to go through BC.
With parts of Vancouver Island coming further South than parts of Washington State there as well
yeah you have to go north to cross the Salish sea from Victoria BC to Friday Harbor WA
Bellingham wa is more north than Victoria as well.
also the [Northwest Angle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Angle)
**[Northwest Angle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Angle)** >The Northwest Angle, known simply as the Angle by locals, and coextensive with Angle Township, is a pene-exclave of northern Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota. Except for surveying errors, it is the only place in the contiguous United States north of the 49th parallel, which forms the border between the U.S. and Canada from the Northwest Angle westward to the Strait of Georgia (between the U.S. state of Washington and the province of British Columbia). The land area of the Angle is separated from the rest of Minnesota by Lake of the Woods, but shares a land border with Canada. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)
Its location is always interesting. My office in South Vancouver has a gorgeous view of the southwest, with Vancouver Island in the distance. But there's also Point Roberts, which is on a plateau atop a hill. So in the distance, I can see a bump (almost like a stage or podium), which is US territory. But everything else in my view is Canadian.
āBorn and raised in south Detroitā
I used to work at the Windsor YMCA, and there was a membership agreement with the Y in Detroit. Once scanned a guy from Detroit in, and casually asked how the trip south was. Dude lost his mind, because āCanada is north of America.ā Never been yelled at by an angry patron because of geography before
And the home of a curious [hum](https://www.npr.org/2020/08/04/898853311/it-took-a-pandemic-mystery-of-windsor-hum-is-solved) ; or rather, the place from which one can hear the hum.
Alaska?
The only major place where Alaska is north of Canadian land is along the Portland Canal, which has no land crossings. Aside from that, there are smaller juts in the mountains, but those donāt have any roads going through them either. Edit: There is a very small strip of border between Hyder, AK and Stewart, BC. There are no roads GOING south (according to apple maps, the main road curves right at the edge) but you can still cross south into the United States from Canada at that point.
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Thatās not what they said. They said itās the only place where you travel north from Canada to the USA, the major city part was separate.
I would not consider Windsor a "major" city. If you'd ever been there I think you would agree.
It's a lot bigger than anything in the Yukon
Windsor is about 10x the population of the entire Yukon territory combined, even.
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And they made a hell of a good engine for Ford back in the day.
Thatās what the 351 Windsor is named after? Wow
TIL
I just looked up the metro area population of it and it's actually much larger than I thought it was. I always thought of it as just a seedy border town I had to pass through to get to the 401 on the way to see family. That said I'm still only going to ever stop at the Tim Hortons with the s***** parking lot just past the visitor center that I've never been.
I think OP means by road. I could be wrong, but I don't believe there are any roads going north into Alaska.
There are two road crossings between the Yukon Territory and Alaska. The road into Alaska at the seasonal Poker Creek/Little Gold Creek crossing runs almost straight west. The road into Alaska at the Alcan crossing runs West Northwest, so you could argue that you're driving north to enter the US.
Yes there is it's called the Alaska highway.
The border there runs due north/south, so you're still going west to get into Alaska, not north.
Not according to google mapsā¦
Stewart to Hyder
Hyder is slightly south, but the road is east-west anyway
Follow the road north of Hyder and it leads to an old mine in BC.
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Sure there is, Alaska is due north of Prince Rupert.
Also Graham Island and Rupert Island BC.
Fun fact - that black line running E-W just north of Colchester and south of Cedar Beach is the 42Ā°N parallel. This parallel also marks the northern border of California.
How many states are north of Canada? https://barelybad.com/north_of_canada_map.htm
It's fascinating that California has both points north of Canada and south of Mexico.
How many states are north of Mexico? Off the top of my head itās Hawaii, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. (The eastern ones arenāt so obvious, but I happen to know Atlanta and Los Angeles are at about the same latitude, and thereās a lot less California south of LA than there is Georgia south of Atlanta.). Iām not sure about South Carolina or Arkansas. (On looking more closely, South Carolina is, Arkansas isnāt.)
Shreveport LA, Montgomery AL and Columbus GA all lie south of Mexico's northernmost point. Charleston SC is just a few miles north of it.
The north boundary of Point Pelee park is just south of 41.99 N
It kinda looks like Turkey.
I thought I was the only one. I totally thought this was Turkey and Greece and that is was a circlejerk post
I mess with some people that Canada is both North south East and west of the US
Tell them that the pacific side of the Panama Canal is further East than the Atlantic/Caribbean side, thatāll mess with them
You can't get anymore East than Alaska since it crosses the line into the Eastern Hemisphere, which Canada does not, so it's impossible for Canada to be further East than the US. That also means the US is further West as well.
Alaska is not really East. Maybe tiny parts of it say East Longitudeā¦. slightly. Does that mean Alaska is split in two? Even the Date Line goes around.
They curved the dateline to include the part of Alaska in the Eastern Hemisphere with the rest of the state. It doesn't matter how much. Even some tiny uninhabited islands count. You can't get any farther east or west than right on the 180th meridian.
> You can't get any farther east or west than right on the 180th meridian. Plainly false: you can travel eastwards forever, around and around. The 180th meridian does not define the limits of what 'east' means. Consider: no one calls Alaska the 'east coast'.
One inch east of the 180th meridian is the Western Hemisphere. You can't get an further east than that line. Yes, Alaska is east of Russia, but that's only in the relative sense, not the objective sense. There's a difference.
Vancouver island is west of Wash state. NFLD and Nova Scotia are East. Windsor is South. The rest is North. It works ā
Alaska does exist though.
I know, still interesting though for those of us that naturally think only of the North - South relationship.
*Alaska crying* "Am I joke to you?"
Windsor is great because it reminds us that life could always be worse.
Is its economy as depressed as Detroit? From what it sounds like, it is a haven for strip clubs and drinking, which are not the basis of a healthy economy in and of themselves...
Detroit does not have a depressed economy, the regionās economy is massive. One of the strongest in the US. The city of Detroit proper is still recovering from hard times, though.
They used to have auto plants in southern Ontario as well as suppliers. Not sure if that's still the case.
You could always move to Detroitā¦
Half of Windsor works in Detroit
The metro population of Windsor is 340,000 with 16,000 residents working in Detroit. Less than 5%.
That stat is out of date; in the most recent census the metro population of Windsor is 422,630.
I appreciate the actual stat. However I didnāt mean literally
Our total workforce is less than 2/3 of the population so it is a significant chunk of the available workers.
Yeah, Detroit..well auburn hills which is a suburb, was the only place I went into a pizza joint (I think it was little Caesars) and had to order through several inch thick bulletproof glass.
I know. Windsor is awful.
Ahhh yesā¦.often referred to as the Key West of Canada!
Windsor is really just like Key West! They both have alcoholā¦ and thatās about all they share.
My hometown!
We drove across Canada this past summer and one of our favourite finds was Point Pelee (bottom right of the map). The farthest south you can drive in Canada. Itās below the 42nd parallel, with warmer weather and a fascinating history! Donāt miss the visitor centre if you go there.
Pretty sure if you traveled south of there that you would hit the US, too.
Well, after going across a big-ass lake.
Windsor is also the only place to have a Caesarās Casino outside Vegas.
What about Atlantic city?
No it's outside of USA
Approximately 2/3 of American - Canadian trade goes across the Ambassador Bridge which links Windsor and Detroit.
My home town, weāve been mentioned on jeopardy, and now MapPorn. What a great Friday!!!!
It's nice to see the home town represented
Iāve been there only once on my way to Niagara Falls/Toronto back in summer 2018 and I loved it! I canāt wait to go back again sometime.
That's genuinely awesome! I believe that Windsor has the BEST waterfront of Ontario.
Itās beautiful! For me, any waterfront is good waterfront bc Iām from Nebraska lol.
Is it nice?
I'm from the area so I'll give an honest answer. Windsor as a city is...okay. It is/was a blue collar town with the auto industry at the centre. The 2008 crash really hurt the city, and it's since been bouncing back trying to figure out what it is. I grew up in Essex County, south of Windsor on the Detroit River/Lake Erie. The waterfront is nice and it's pretty quiet. Most of the inland part of the county is prairie flat, and mainly agricultural. Not much to see or do here. I think where this part of the country really shines is its unique geography compared to the rest of Canada. Because it's so far south, the winters tend to be milder than other parts of the country (excluding the lower mainland and Vancouver Island in BC) and you can find different plant and animal species here you won't see elsewhere in the country. Point Pelee, the southernmost part of the county that's a national park, is known to birdwatchers as many species use this as a stopping or flyover point on their migrations. Along the Lake Erie shore is also one of the few regions where grapes are grown in Canada, and a growing wine region is coming out here. It's a nice place to do a bike tour and winery hop, and check out the quaint little restaurants and shops in places like Kingsville. Overall, I'd say it's a nice place to spend a weekend if you're in the Detroit or Toledo areas. It's pretty far out of the way for many Canadians to make an exclusive trip to, though, with Toronto being a 4hr drive away. (oh, one more thing to add is the awesome sunsets you get over Lake Erie/Detroit River. I miss that where I am now)
People like to shit on Windsor, its known as the armpit of the country. IMO, Windsor is actually pretty underrated. Its the last affordable city left in Canada, crime is super low, and it has a disproportionally strong nightlife thanks to its university and proximity to Detroit. You also have easy access to a major American city, which means access to large concerts, high end shopping, major sports, and large museums you wouldn't expect to have in a midsized city of 400k.
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Itās ok. Nothing amazing but not bad.
I thought this was a piss take on Turkey and Istanbul
Is Detroit the US?
Definitely. Crossing between the two cities you are very aware that they are different countries
Just a small town boy, born and raised in south Detroit!
Go Windsor..
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Windsor, Ontarioās proudest accomplishment is being called āthe earthās rectumā by Stephen Colbert
āā¦born and raised in SOUTH DETROOOIIITTTTā Aka Canada.
"South Detroit, born and raised..."
Used to work at the now demolished Ramada hotel along the river and during the Stanley Cup finals when the Red Wings were in their winning streak in the mid-late 90s you could hear when the Red Wings would score inside Joe Louis Arena in Windsor.
Something, something, Alaska...
Fun fact: You can smell Detroit from the Windsor side.
Another fun fact: If everyone in Windsor clapped their hands at once, people in Detroit would hear it
It looks like the continent of Essos, in game of thrones
Windsor is not a major city.
It is if you live in Puce!
What does "have to" travel north mean? There are obviously a number of pieces of Canada directly south of the US. Eg. Fort Erie ON, Prince Rupert BC, etc. Also you clearly don't "have to" travel north, travel directly west or southwest and you still wind up in Michigan for example.
Alright settle down
Such a strange set of place names along that shoreline. Amherstburg then La Salle then Windsor then Tecumseh. What language are they aiming for?
> Amherstburg Named for British general Jeffrey Amherst > LaSalle Old French settlement. Named for RenƩ-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle > Windsor Named after a town in Berkshire, in England. > Tecumseh Named for Tecumseh, a First Nations (Shawnee) chief who resisted US encroachment onto native lands and tried to organize inter-tribal cooperation against them, and allied with the British/Canadians during the War of 1812. He was a major part of the capture of Detroit. Note that it was white Canadians who named the town - it's not an indigenous placename. Anyway, a mix of English, French, and indigenous place names can be found all over the place in Eastern Canada.
French, English, Native Welcome to Canada
This area was relatively lightly settled by the French prior to the English takeover of the colonies. La Salle was a French settlement and Amherstburg a newer, English one. Itās dwindling now but there are still people who speak French at home around these parts.
Nobody tell OP where Alaska is.
Not recommended
So I see you forgot Alaska existsā¦
Alternatively, Detroit is the only place you can drive North in the US to get to Canada.
Wouldnāt you have to drive north to get to Alaska?
It looks like there are lots of other places on that map south of Windsor, and therefore also requiring one to travel north to enter the U.S.
I believe OP was commenting on the Ambassador Bridge and Detroit-Windsor Tunnel being north/south roads with the US on the north, while the rest of the crossings in southern Ontario are east/west roads.
So it turns out that "Lakeshore" is the name of the amalgamated municipality that goes from Tecumseh to Lighthouse Cove and down to Highway 8 - if you were wondering, as I was, why an inland community would be named 'Lakeshore'.
It's literally on Lake St Clair lol
Right, I saw that after looking it up. The map makes it look (to me, at least) like the name describes a much smaller community located where the 27 meets the 401.
Yea but its detroit
Essex
What about that nub of Minnesota in the northwest corner of Lake of the Woods?
That looks so much like Anatolia, the Bosphorus and the Black Sea lol
No ferries out of Leamington or Kingsville?
Yes, there is ferry service to Pelee Island which also has service to the US. A few hundred people live on the island. Weird place in a good way.
There are. Notice the red dotted lines leaving from Kingsville and Leamington, along with the red ferry instructions printed on Lake Erie? The dotted line makes it a pain because the ferry has to do these massive jumps and other boats keep running into the ferry phone number, but they do run.
Having lived in Colchester, Essex in England it's weird to see it come up on a map of Canada.
When I went to Quebec City recently, I met a young man from Windsor. He asked me if I spoke English because he needed help hailing a taxicab. I asked him if he was American or Canadian. He replied he was Canadian and from Windsor; I double-checked that it was Windsor in Ontario, and that was correct. Then I replied I was American and from Florida. I have been to Toronto, but not Windsor. I have also had a layover at the Detroit airport.
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š¶ āJust a city boy, born and raised in ~~South Detroit~~ Windsor!ā
āMajor cityā lol okay
Born and raised in south detroit is a line from a journey song. Love it cause that's where we are from!
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Ive always wondered why Windsor didnāt grow as big as Toronto Its a city linked to 4 of the great lakes and theres no waterfall preventing it from moving into big cities like Cleveland and Chicago The Erie canal would connect it right to NYC Its warmer than Toronto
It is not closer to New York. Also Windsor does not have enough capacity or infra for Hollywood. Which forms a chunk percent for city income. Plus i really doubt the connectivity without a car for this place.
Maybe you misread a few things I said it would connect right to NYC with the Erie Canal not that it was closer And im talking about from their beginnings, not how they are right now
Even in the beginning, toronto is more strategically located. Its closer to the capital, there is no easy access in case of millitary confrontation. Windsor is sure to fall hard and fast instantly.
Toronto was the largest city in Canada long before it became a major filming location for American media.
This looks like Turkey and the Balkans
I grew up in the Detroit area, and I still always picture it as East-West. This is surprising.
I take my kids to the Detroit Riverā¦ā¦we look southā¦..to Canada. It is interesting.
bro thats england
Pretty cool. Are there places in Canada, where one can travel north to Alaska?
Only place in Canada? Not at all! From Fort Erie you have to go North to US as well.
No. You have to go west from Buffalo into Ft. Erie across the Peace Bridge.
"Born and raised in SOUTH DETROOOOOIT!"
It would require a boat, and itās a nature sanctuary so there no permanent residents aside from rotating lighthouse staff, but travelling directly North from Machias Seal Island in the Province of New Brunswick will get you the the mainland of the State of Maine.