City of Windsor

Windsor Facts

City of Windsor Website:
http://www.citywindsor.ca/

Population: 208,425

Location: South – Central Canada
Canada’s southernmost city, directly across from Detroit.

Climate: Hot summers, cool winters. Canada’s earliest spring.

Windsor is Canada’s only city located south of the United States. Located at the centre of the Great Lakes, the world’s busiest inland waterway, it is only one hour’s drive from 4.5 million Americans, and only 6 hours’ drive from 25 million Americans.

Windsor is the centre of Canada’s advanced automotive industry, and eastern Canada’s largest agri-business region.

Windsor Features:

• Canada’s busiest cross-border trade, valued at $400 million daily
• High employment rates, above-average wages and disposable incomes
• 90% of Canadian and US assembly plants and 60% of manufacturing within one day’s truck drive
• A respected university and college of applied arts and technology
• Surrounded by 105 miles of shoreline, 30 marinas, major parks, and vineyards