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During the summer tour season, the Art Cart Tours are offeredWednesday, Thursday and Friday from 4:30 - 7:30 p.m. and Saturday andSunday from 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.  The Art Cart also operates on theAugust Civic Holiday Monday and Labour Day. All tours are free andoperate on a weather permitting basis.

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Southwestern Ontario's first science and technology centre. Over 100 hands-on interactive exhibits, a theatre, a café, and a state-of-the-art computer science lab. Group/school tours available year round.

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Canada South Wine Tours is a Tourism Industry Council of Ontario (T.I.C.O.) certified tour company that specializes in tours of the local Windsor area wineries, offering daily tours and tastings of Vintners Quality Alliance (VQA) wines and ice wines.

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Rich history lives on at the Canadian Club® Brand Heritage centre in Walkerville, Ontario, Canada. We invite you to join us at our historic facility on the banks of the Detroit River.

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To Honour Canadian Veterans by Preserving, Maintaining, Restoring, Displaying‚ and Demonstrating antique or vintage military and civilian aircraft considered important to Canadian aviation history.

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The Canadian Transportation Museum is a state-of-the-art 25,000 sq. ft facility. It houses various modes of transportation, from the mid 1800s up to the 1992 Dodge Viper. The museum includes horse and oxen drawn carts, a 1904 Mitchell horse drawn hearse, fire trucks, Ford Model Ts and As, one of only 117 Ford cars made by Ford of Canada in their first year of production in 1904, hot rods, Corvettes, T-Birds and more.

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Plants & Flowers, Exotic Birds, Gifts, Petting Farm & Reptiles, Home Decor, Collectibles and Gift Shoppe, 18-Hole Indoor Mini Golf, Family Entertainment Centre, Restaurant, Little Tykes Indoor Playground, Kids Rides plus much, much more!

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The Downtown Windsor Business Improvement Association (DWBIA) is committed to ensuring that Downtown Windsor is the place people want to BE and businesses want to INVEST. Through its leadership in advocacy, infrastructure, development and promotion, the DWBIA works to improve, maintain and promote the economic, political and social vitality of the downtown business district.

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Our club originated in October 1984 and was incorporated (Non Profit) in 1986 and for 13 years we held fund raising shows at the South-western Ontario Heritage Village on County Road 23.

In April of 1997 our club leased 10 acres of land in Co-An Park at McGregor in the County of Essex. November 1997 we were able to build on our property a museum building 48' x 140' to house only the clubs collection of old gas and steam powered engines, including tractors.

In September 2000 we built our second building 48' by 96' to house our collection of steam engines.

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Come tour the lovely country side as we visit the estate wineries of Beautiful Essex County. Take part in a vineyard and wine tour. Enjoy the wine tasting where you can sample wine and purchase any you may find to your liking or to use as gifts for your family and friends.

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The Essex Railway Station is a heritage site in the Town of Essex, Ontario. The site consists of a restored stone railway station built in 1887, a Heritage Gardens area with markers identifying individuals and families who have contributed to the development of the Town of Essex, and antique rail cars from 1909 and 1942.

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Walking tour of the famous Ford City.

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For 200 years, fortifications at Fort Malden have witnessed and participated in the struggles which helped forge a new nation out of the North American wilderness. An army garrison, British Indian Department post, dockyard for the Upper Great Lakes and the meeting place for Chief Tecumseh and British General Brock - the fort has been all these. Fort Malden preserves elements of the second fort built by the British on the eastern bank of the Detroit River to defend the Canadian border from American attack in the first half of the 19th century.

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The Heritage Garden is a colourful tribute to the area’s history.Each of four fountains in the garden represents a different era in the area’s history.

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The Jack Miner Bird Sanctuary was one of the first of its kind in North America, and remains in existence today. It is located near Kingsville in Essex County, Ontario, resting on a peninsula between Lake Erie to the south and Lake Saint Clair to the north. It is ten miles away from the well-known birding destination Point Pelee National Park, which Miner helped to designate as a national park in 1918. (The "Atlantic" and "Mississippi" migratory flyways converge in this area.

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Welcome to the John Freeman Walls Historic Site and Underground Railroad Museum. This Family Museum was built and is operated by the descendants of John Freeman Walls and Jane King Walls. They traveled on the famous Underground Railroad from Rockingham County, North Carolina to Canada. This historic site is located in Puce, Ontario, Canada was an actual Terminal of the Underground Railroad.

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The North American Black Historical Museum has been established to preserve and promote Black Heritage from African origins to present day development in the Western Hemisphere. There is a focus on the Underground Railroad movement, Canadian Black settlement and the accomplishments and contributions of the peoples of African origins who helped shape this great nation. The museum is owned and operated by the North American Black Historical Museum and Cultural Centre Inc. and its Board of Directors (Management), collects, preserves, interprets, researches, and exhibits a collection of objects and materials of historical and cultural value. They provide historical material for the education, enlightenment and benefit of the entire world as well as the positive development of the African Canadian community.

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The Park House is an early example of Pièce sur Pièce  log construction and is said to have been built in the 1790s at the mouth of the Rouge River in Detroit.  When Detroit was ceded to the United States, the owners decided to dismantle the building and float it down the Detroit River to Amherstburg. 
Today the Park House is a year round museum catering to the needs of visiting School children, seniors and the general public, as well as being an interesting and informative place to visit.

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Point Pelee National Park, famous for its birding migration, is located near Leamington, Ontario and found on the southernmost tip of Canada's mainland. Established as a National Park in 1918, the peninsula was named by French explorers. Their name of Pointe Pelee meant “bald point”, referring to the lack of vegetation. Boasting the same latitude as Northern California, this small park provides a warm climate for the “Carolinian” woods and many birding species normally found further South.

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Learn about heritage buildings in Sandwich on this exciting walking tour of this historic town.

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A list of the walking tours in Windsor Ontario.

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Learn about heritage buildings on Victoria Avenue on this exciting historic walk.

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Windsor’s Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee (W.A.C.A.C.) encourages tours of Walkerville, the former town that now forms part of Windsor.

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This modern aquatic facility is directly linked to a community centre which expands the facility options to include a climate controlled water slide, a beach entry wade pool and lap pool, a 30- person therapy pool, a gymnasium and a meeting room.  This facility is wheelchair and handicap accessible.

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The Museum features a variety of exhibits which tell the history of our region and it's citizens over the years.

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