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Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Former Town of Windsor recorded a population of 3,425 living in 1,556 of its 1,679 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 3,648. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2016

Arts and culture

The world's very first pumpkin regatta was held in Windsor in 1999 where people carve out The Giant Pumpkins and race across lake Pisiquid. The first fair was held in Windsor in the year 1765 making their 250th anniversary in 2015. Students from King's-Edgehill School still play hockey on Long Pond, a pond proclaimed by some as the "Cradle of Hockey", located at the farm of Howard Dill. Windsor also boasts the oldest hockey arena in Canada, the Stannus Street Rink, which no longer hosts hockey games. The town's current arena is Hants Exhibition Arena. The town was also recently involved in the shooting of a television series called Road Hockey Rumble. The town of Windsor was also home to the historic Windsor Royals Jr. B Hockey Club, as well as the Avon River Rats Jr. C Hockey Club. The Windsor Royals Jr. B club ceased playing in the spring of 2012, but was ultimately replaced by the Valley Maple Leafs. Facing issues regarding their copyright, in June 2018 the River Rats revived the Royals brand. However, the newly named team lasted just one season before relocating to Chester, Nova Scotia as the Castaways.

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File:StJohnsWindsor.jpg|St. John's Roman Catholic Church, designed by William Critchlow Harris

File:HantsCommunityHospital.jpg|Hants Community Hospital

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Government

The town operates under a Council/Manager system of local government consisting of current elected Mayor Anna Allen, current Deputy Mayor Laurie Murley, three elected Councillors, Dave Sealey, Liz Galbraith, and John Bergante and a Chief Administrative Officer, Louis Coutinho.

Notable people

  • Thomas R. Bennett
  • Scott Brison
  • George Elliott Clarke
  • Rufus Curry
  • Amor De Cosmos
  • Benjamin DeWolf (Windsor merchant)
  • George Henry Emerson (Twillingate and Fogo)
  • James Fraser (businessman)
  • Henry Goudge
  • Monson Henry Goudge (son)
  • Allen Haley
  • Thomas Chandler Haliburton
  • Lewis Herbert Martell
  • Richard McHeffy
  • Alden Nowlan (from nearby Stanley, Nova Scotia)
  • Percy Paris
  • Daniel McNeill Parker
  • Chuck Porter
  • Silas Tertius Rand
  • Gerald Regan
  • Geoff Regan
  • Avon Saxon
  • Jennifer Rosanne States
  • Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
  • Peter Togni
  • Benjamin Wier (nearby Brooklyn)
  • Charles Smith Wilcox
  • Lewis Morris Wilkins (speaker)
  • Lewis Morris Wilkins (son)

Sister city

The sister city of Windsor is Cooperstown, New York. This is due to Windsor being the birthplace of Ice Hockey and Cooperstown being the birthplace of Baseball.

See also

  • List of municipalities in Nova Scotia
  • King's-Edgehill School
  • University of King's College
  • The Hants Journal

References

Further reading

  • Joshua M. Smith, Borderland Smuggling: Patriots, Loyalists, and Illicit Trade in the Northeast, 1783-1820 (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006).
  • Garth Vaughan, The Puck stops Here: The origin of Canada's great game - Ice Hockey, (Goose Lane Editions, 1996)
  • Town of Windsor
  • Sketch of the Old Parish Burying Ground of Windsor, Nova Scotia By Henry Youle Hind. 1888.