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Heidi L.M. Jacobs

Heidi L.M. Jacobs is a Canadian author and winner of the Stephen Leacock prize. Born and raised in Edmonton, Ms Jacobs moved to Windsor after graduation to work at the University of Windsor’s Leddy Library. She completed her BA and MA in English at The University of Alberta, PhD in English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and her MLIS at Western University. Ms Jacobs is a prolific writer of both...
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Matti Holli

Matti Holli is an award-winning musician and maestro. He is best known as the founder of the Windsor Symphony Orchestra (WSO), which has been entertaining audiences since 1947. Holli began his musical career with the WSO as a violinist with its precursor, the Windsor Federation of Musicians Philharmonic in 1941. Holli took over as musical director when its conductor, Ernest Rennie, became ill in 1947. The Federation was an amateur...
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Man O’War vs Sir Barton

On Tuesday, October 12th, 1920 a horserace between Man O’War and Sir Barton, the two best racehorses of the day, was held at Kenilworth Park Racetrack in Windsor. Attended by a crowd estimated at 30,000, the contest was one of the most famous horseraces of the twentieth century. During the summer of 1920, news of a potential matchup between Sir Barton, the first ever winner of the American Triple Crown...
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Kortney Wilson

Kortney Wilson (nee Galerno) is a TV personality, interior designer, and former country music singer.  She is best known as a presenter on television series, Masters of Flip, which she hosted for four seasons with her husband, Dave. Kortney was born on February 8, 1979 in Windsor, Ontario. Her family left Windsor when she was just three months old, and Kortney spent her formative years in Sudbury and Kitchener. Members...
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Al Delaney (Alexander Borshuk)

Al Delaney (born Alexander Borshuk) reigned as Canadian Heavyweight Champion from 1941 until 1945. During a career that spanned thirteen years and more than one hundred bouts, Delaney fought many of the best heavyweight and light heavyweight fighters of the 1930s and 40s. Born in Oshawa in 1916, Delaney moved to Windsor in the early 1920s, growing up on Hickory Road in what was then Ford City. Strong and athletic,...
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Pat “Patsy” Drouillard

Known during his career as “The Pride of Windsor,” Pat Drouillard was a top ranked lightweight boxer who fought many of the best lightweights in the world during his professional career. He was also the city’s first nationally and internationally-known athlete. Born in River Canard in 1893, Pat moved to Windsor shortly before the turn of the twentieth century. He grew up on Wellington Avenue. At the age of fifteen,...
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Yelena Simone

Yelena Simone is an internationally-known artist, dancer, and performer. She is best known in Windsor for her expertise in the art of Sand Animation, which she has been mastering since 2012. Simone (nee Elena Semenov) was born in Minsk, Belarus, in 1961. She and her husband, Eugene, settled in Windsor in the late 1990s.  In 1999, Simone founded art school for children called KidsArtSmart Inc. where she educated students in...
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Ritchie Hawtin

Born June 4, 1970 in Banbury, England, Ritchie Hawtin lived there till he was nine years old. When his family immigrated to Canada, they settled in La Salle, a town outside of Windsor, Ontario. He has one brother, Matthew, who is a successful visual artist and ambient music DJ. As a teenager Hawtin found from a combination of techno with computers science fiction. He began to DJ in clubs in...
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Tumble with the Books

Tumblebook Library (K-6) is a curated database of children’s e-books, from children’s book publishers such as Simon & Schuster, Chronicle Books, Candlewick Press, Charlesbridge Press, Walker & Company, Annick Press, Orca Books, Lerner Books, and HarperCollins Publishers, amongst others. The collections provide enrichment to students who are reading independently with a variety of high interest material. It also provides support to students who require skill building with a variety of...
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Hiram Walker & Sons Distillery

Hiram Walker & Sons DistilleryNotable Buildings, Things, and Events Hiram Walker & Sons Distillery is a distillery that was founded by Hiram Walker in 1858. The distillery grew greatly in popularity and influence following its being established, with the company offering 27 varieties of whisky by 1882. In the same year, Walker officially changed his whisky brand from “Three Star Club” to “Club”,  registering the name as a trademark in...
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