Windsor, Ontario (can)

Windsor, Ontario

Windsor, Ontario ranks 818th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Luton, Piraeus, and Ulsan. Memorable people born in Windsor, Ontario include David H. Hubel, Paul Martin, and Shania Twain. Memorable people who died in Windsor, Ontario include Yuri Bezmenov. Windsor, Ontario has been the birth place of many athletes, and actors and the death place of many journalists. Windsor, Ontario is located in Canada.

Windsor is a city in southwestern Ontario, Canada, on the south bank of the Detroit River directly across from Detroit, Michigan, United States. Geographically located within but administratively independent of Essex County, it is the southernmost city in Canada and marks the southwestern end of the Quebec City–Windsor Corridor. The city's population was 229,660 at the 2021 census, making it the third-most populated city in Southwestern Ontario, after London and Kitchener. This represents a 5.7 percent increase from Windsor's 2016 population census of 217,188. The Detroit–Windsor urban area is North America's most populous trans-border conurbation. Linking the Great Lakes Megalopolis, the Ambassador Bridge border crossing is the busiest commercial crossing on the Canada–United States border. Read more on Wikipedia