Ford City in Windsor, Ontario named on 10 Places to Visit in Canada Right Now List

In a recent article in Maclean’s Magazine, Windsor Ontario (and specifically Ford City!) was named one of the top 10 places to visit in Canada right now. We were proud to be noted as a place to visit in the article! Here’s an excerpt…

The tipping point, for me, was the revitalization of Ford City, a neighbourhood a five-minute drive east of Walkerville. Built in the early 1900s as a company town to house and service the thousands of auto workers employed by the Ford Motor Company plant at Drouillard and Riverside, it was once home to several churches, schools and opulent estates.

We biked to Ford City one evening a couple of years ago to have dinner at the Grand Cantina, a taco joint at the corner of Drouillard and Whelpton (it’s since moved). It was hopping, the food was great and the margaritas were even better. At that point, it was an outlier, but over subsequent visits, other new businesses took root on the strip—a café called Chance Coffee, the full-service bike shop City Cyclery and Michael Difazio Reclaim Artistry, a custom furniture maker that uses salvaged materials. At a birthday party I attended last summer at Pressure Drop, a café and clothing shop, a host of academics, lawyers, activists and city councillors showed up to enjoy cocktails and jerk chicken.