Ottawa Street History Walking Tour

Ottawa Street History Walking Tour Host: Walter S. Petrichyn (Museum Windsor) Contact host: wpetrichyn@citywindsor.ca

Please note: Registration for this event is FULL.

Ottawa Street is one of Windsor’s most important corridors when it comes to mom-and-pop businesses. This tour will cover businesses that have lasted three to four generations, as well as some newer ones. Other talking points will include cultural community centers, Lanspeary Park and the development of the Ottawa Street Village Mall. Over a century of history will be discussed on this tour.

Museum Windsor presented the Ottawa Street Walking Tour for the first time outside of the Janes Walk festival in October of 2024. Ottawa Street will be Museum Windsor's fourth contribution for the Jane's Walk Windsor Essex festival. Previously Museum Windsor has been involved with Jane's Walk with the following tours: City Hall in 2019, Detroit From Afar in 2022, and Riverside in 2024.

Event location: The walk will start and end at the gazebo in Lanspeary Park (about 1/2 a block to a block away from Benjamin Ave and Ottawa Street)

Type of Event:

Jane's Walk - Guided walking tour

Accessibility notes:

• Easy walk (using sidewalks or paved pathways with no hills)

• Wheelchair friendly

• Baby stroller friendly

  
  

Is there a bathroom nearby?

Public bathroom available at starting location

Where can attendees park?

• Free parking lot at the starting/ending location

• PAID street parking around the start/ending location
  

How much walking is involved?

Approximately 1 km of walking

Photo credit:

Credit from the images go to the Ottawa BIA for their 2019 Uptown brochure (PM 2806 in Museum Windsor's collection). Also, the photo of the inside of the Gazebo at Lanspeary Park courtesy of the City of Windsor's Parks and Recreation Department (P23129 in the Museum Windsor's collection).