Showing posts with label Canada. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Canada. Show all posts
Friday, September 27, 2024

Samuel Zug - The Man Behind the Island

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Samuel Zug Samuel Zug is thought by some people to have been an industrialist, but that couldn't be further from the truth. He wa...
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Friday, July 5, 2024

The Long-Awaited Ambassador Bridge Connects Detroit with Windsor

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Ambassador Bridge Announcement-- Detroit Free Press When the automobile business took off early in the twentieth century, the need for an in...
Thursday, June 20, 2024

A Brief History of the Gordie Howe International Bridge

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  With the installation of final edge girders on the Gordie Howe International Bridge on June 14, 2024, the long-awaited connection between ...
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Saturday, April 13, 2019

Willie O'Ree--National Hockey League Pioneer

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Willie and his family with Canadian Prime Mister Justin Trudeau. I can not express how happy I am that my friend Willie O'Ree was ...
Tuesday, August 7, 2018

Canadian Prohibition Loophole Fuels Roaring Twenties in United States

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Model T stake truck breaks through Detroit River ice with overload of Canadian liquor During the United States Prohibition period, the...
Saturday, May 26, 2018

John Norman Collins Canadian Connection

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When I speak to people about the Washtenaw County murders of the late 1960s, I am usually asked, "Have you been in contact with...
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Tuesday, February 27, 2018

"Kosher Nostra"--Detroit's Purple Gang Origins

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Russian immigrants waiting on Ellis Island. Detroit's slums were the breeding ground for crime and violence when waves of Europea...
Saturday, July 12, 2014

Montreal's Canadian Expo 67, a Souvenir Medallion Necklace, and John Norman Collins

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Remembered as a source of Canadian national pride, the Montreal Exposition 67 was Canada's first world's fair. It also marked it...