43-767: (Redirected from Lakeshore ) Lake Shore or Lakeshore may refer to: Places [ edit ] Lakeshore, Ontario , Canada Lakeshore (provincial electoral district) Lakeshore, California (disambiguation) , the name of several places in the U.S. Lakeshore, Florida , U.S. Lake Shore, Jacksonville, Florida , U.S. Lakeshore, Louisiana , U.S. Lake Shore, Maryland , U.S. Lake Shore, Minnesota , U.S. Lakeshore, Mississippi , U.S. Lakeshore/Lake Vista, New Orleans , U.S. Lake Shore, Utah , U.S. Lake Shore, Washington , U.S. Lake Shore Drive , an expressway in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. Lake Shore Boulevard ,
86-451: A 30-foot-deep (9.1 m) shipping channel through the shallow lake for more than a century. This lake is situated about six miles (10 km) northeast of the downtown areas of Detroit, Michigan , and Windsor, Ontario . Along with the St. Clair River and Detroit River , Lake St. Clair connects Lake Huron (to its north) with Lake Erie (to its south). The area is notable for the fact that
129-704: A historic black community, along the Puce River, made up of descendants of refugee slaves from the South in the United States who immigrated to Canada for freedom, using the Underground Railroad network. The Municipality of Lakeshore comprises the communities of Belle River, Comber, Deerbrook, Elmstead, Emeryville, Haycroft, Lighthouse Cove, North Woodslee, Pike Creek, Pleasant Park, Puce, Ruscom Station, South Woodslee, St. Joachim, Stoney Point, and Strangfield, as well as
172-671: A long-distance passenger train between Chicago and New York Lakeshore, Bristol , a building in England Lakeshore SC , a Canadian soccer club WYIN , an Indiana PBS station also known as Lakeshore PBS See also [ edit ] Shore of a lake All pages with titles beginning with Lake Shore All pages with titles containing Lake Shore All pages with titles beginning with Lakeshore All pages with titles containing Lakeshore Lake Shore Drive (disambiguation) Lake Shore Railway (disambiguation) List of national lakeshores and seashores of
215-556: A maximum natural depth of 23 feet (7.0 m). However, it is 27 feet (8.2 m) deep in the navigation channel which is dredged for lake freighter passage by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers . The lake is fed by the St. Clair River, which flows to the south from Lake Huron and has an extensive river delta where it enters Lake St. Clair. This is the largest delta of the Great Lakes System. Other rivers which feed Lake St. Clair are
258-455: A notable figure. Together the place name and general's name likely influenced settlers' naming a proliferation of nearby political jurisdictions: the Michigan county and township of St. Clair, as well as the cities of St. Clair and St. Clair Shores . Some local historians attributed the namesake to Patrick Sinclair , a British officer who purchased land on the St. Clair River at the outlet of
301-711: A road in Toronto, Ontario, U.S. Lake Shore Mine , a gold mine in Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada Businesses and organisations [ edit ] Lakeshore Entertainment , an American film company Lakeshore Records Lakeshore High School , in Mandeville, Louisiana Lake Shore High School , in St. Clair Shores, Michigan Lake Shore High School (Angola, New York) Lakeshore Hospital , in Kochi, Kerala, India Other uses [ edit ] Lake Shore Limited ,
344-456: Is also located here. As in the rest of Essex County and Chatham-Kent , the terrain is extremely flat and regular. The terrain slopes very gently from the southern border of Lakeshore on Highway 8, with an average elevation of 188 m (617 ft), to the shore of Lake St. Clair at 176 m (577 ft). The highest land is in the southwestern corner of the town, near the town of Essex, at an elevation of 193 m (633 ft). The area
387-574: Is based primarily on agriculture and manufacturing. Over 27% of the workforce is employed in the manufacturing sector. The prominence of manufacturing is an outgrowth of the town's proximity to Windsor and Detroit, the historic centre of North American automobile production. The economy of Lakeshore remains closely tied to that of Windsor: more than 50% of the town's total workforce is employed in Windsor. In recent years, important developments in renewable energy, particularly in wind power , have taken place in
430-554: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Lakeshore, Ontario Lakeshore is a municipality on Lake St. Clair , in Essex County , Ontario , Canada. It was incorporated in 1999 by amalgamating the Town of Belle River with the townships of Maidstone, Rochester, Tilbury North, and Tilbury West. It is the largest and the most populous municipality within Essex County . However, it
473-515: Is drained by a series of slow-moving rivers and creeks, all of which flow northward into Lake St. Clair: from west to east, these are Pike Creek, the Puce River, Belle River, the Ruscom River, and finally Big Creek and Baptiste Creek, which form the northeastern border of Lakeshore at their junction with the Thames River . The major transportation arteries through Lakeshore, including Highway 401 ,
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#1732845677637516-474: Is occasionally referred to as "the sixth Great Lake". Scattered proposals have called for it to be officially recognized as a Great Lake, which might enable it to attract greater public funding for scientific research and other projects. First Nations / Native Americans used the lake as part of their extensive navigation of the Great Lakes. The Mississauga called it Waawiyaataan(ong) , meaning "(at)
559-665: Is part of the Windsor census metropolitan area . Lakeshore has a significant concentration of French Canadians and is one of only four communities in Southern Ontario (excluding Eastern Ontario ) in which more than 5% (the provincial average) of the population is francophone. The others are Welland , Pain Court , and Penetanguishene . In the 2011 census, 7.7% of the population reported French as their mother tongue, and 17.2% reported knowledge of both official languages. Lakeshore also has
602-597: The Pine River . There, in 1764, he built Fort Sinclair, which was in use for nearly twenty years before being abandoned. Unlike most smaller lakes in the region—but like the Great Lakes— Lake comes at the front of its proper name, rather than the end; this is reflective of its French origins. The Crawford Knoll Site located on the eastern branch of the St. Clair River delta uncovered bone and projectile points dating back to 1500 to 1000 BCE which suggest seasonal usage by
645-723: The Thames and Sydenham rivers which originate in Southwestern Ontario , and the Clinton River , which originates in Michigan. The outflow from Lake St. Clair travels from its southwestern end into the Detroit River, and then into Lake Erie . The tarry time (i.e., the time between entering and leaving) of the water in Lake St. Clair averages about seven days, but this can vary from as little as two to as many as thirty days, depending on
688-663: The 1840s, the town received numerous Irish immigrants, fleeing the Great Famine. Later additional waves of French Canadians migrated from Quebec. Development was slow until the construction of a series of railroads through the area. These include the Great Western Railway , opened in 1854 and passing through Belle River, and the Canada Southern Railway (later owned by New York Central and Michigan Central ), opened in 1872 and passing through Comber. These stimulated
731-571: The 1920s, James Scott Cooper , a well-known local entrepreneur and bootlegger, built mansions from his profits in Walkerville and Belle River. The Cooper Court Motel and Bar in Belle River, built in 1920, still operates today. Cooper was a philanthropist and contributed greatly to the construction of Belle River's first high school in 1922, St. James High School; it was named informally to honour Cooper's generosity. The building still stands today, housing
774-597: The Canadian and American governments closed the commercial fishery over concerns of bio-accumulation of mercury. The industry responsible for this contamination was the Dow Chemical Chlor-Alkali Plant in Sarnia, Ontario. Since 1949, Dow Chemical had been operating mercury cell plants for the production of chlorine and other chemicals. Through its production process, it discharged mercury into the river and contaminated
817-457: The Canadian territory around the lake (Windsor metropolitan area) lies south of the adjacent United States territory. Lake St. Clair measures about 22.5 nautical miles (42 km; 26 mi) from north to south and about 21 nautical miles (39 km; 24 mi) from east to west. Its total surface area is about 430 square miles (1,100 km ). This is a rather shallow lake for its size, with an average depth of about 11 feet (3.4 m), and
860-628: The Dutch identified it in Latin as Mare Dulce . On August 12, 1679, the French explorer René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle arrived with an expedition. He named the body of water Lac Sainte-Claire, as the expedition sighted it on the feast day of Saint Clare of Assisi . The historian on the voyage, Louis Hennepin , recorded that the Iroquoian tribes referred to the lake as Otseketa . As early as 1710,
903-702: The English adopted the French name, identifying the lake on their maps as Saint Clare. By the Mitchell Map in 1755, the spelling appeared as the shorter "St. Clair," the form that became most widely used. Some scholars credit the name as honoring the American Revolutionary War General Arthur St. Clair , later Governor of the Northwest Territory , but the name Lake St. Clair was in use with this current spelling long before St. Clair became
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#1732845677637946-610: The Tecumseh Road, and County Roads 22, 42 and 46 , all follow an east–west parallel toward Windsor and Detroit in the west and toward Chatham-Kent in the east. The only significant exception is Highway 77 , which connects Leamington to Highway 401 via Staples. Areas along Lake St. Clair and the Puce, Belle, and Ruscom rivers were originally occupied by the Huron and Wyandot First Nations . Some French colonists associated with Fort Detroit and
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1032-419: The aquatics centre was opened, adding a 25-metre lap pool, a leisure pool, and a spa tub. Outside of the enclosed 200,000 square foot facility, there is a 5-kilometre walking trail, splash pad and soccer fields. Lake Saint Clair (North America) Lake St. Clair ( French : Lac Sainte-Claire ) is a freshwater lake that lies between the Canadian province of Ontario and the U.S. state of Michigan . It
1075-433: The area along the Ruscom River, who were distant from the existing parishes in Belle River and Stoney Point. Belle River was well known for bootlegging during Prohibition in the United States . The Wellington hotel, once located on Notre Dame, the town's main street, exported alcohol to the United States. Owners and residents of many American-owned cottages on Charron Beach Road also participated in bootlegging liquor. In
1118-465: The area to large-scale immigration. Over the course of the 1870s, the town's population was tripled by an influx of settlers from the province of Quebec, sometimes referred to as Canadian French, in contrast to the Fort Detroit French. The earliest industries in the town were operated by Luc and Denis Ouellette, who established a sawmill and gristmill on opposite sides of the river. In 1881,
1161-556: The birthplace of retired NHL player Tie Domi , and NHL player Aaron Ekblad was raised in Belle River. NFL and CFL offensive lineman Drew Desjarlais was born and raised in Belle River. In 2023 the Ottawa Redblacks obtained Desjarlais from the NFL by making him the league’s highest-paid offensive lineman. Since 1989, Belle River has been known as the "Jet Ski Capital of Canada" due to the numerous personal watercraft riders and racers in
1204-589: The direction of Henry Walton Bibb , the society purchased scattered lots in and around Maidstone, Puce, and Belle River to resettle refugee blacks. Although Michigan was a free state, slavecatchers operated in Detroit to capture refugees for the high bounties offered under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. The two oldest communities in Lakeshore are Comber and Belle River. Samuel Taylor II, who developed and owned half
1247-463: The direction of the winds, the water circulation patterns, and the amount of water that is flowing out of Lake Huron. For water flowing through the navigation channel, the time period is only about two days. Lake St. Clair is part of the Great Lakes system, but very rarely included as one; the smallest Great Lake, Lake Ontario , is 17 times larger by surface area, and more than 80 times by volume. It
1290-449: The far eastern section of Tecumseh . A small portion of the township's easternmost area is considered by some to be part of Tilbury , although Tilbury proper is located in the neighbouring municipality of Chatham-Kent . Although incorporated as a town, the vast majority of Lakeshore is rural, being made up of cleared farmland predominantly used for the cultivation of cash crops such as soybeans and winter wheat . The Comber Wind Farm
1333-442: The fur trade settled in this area in the 18th century. Their descendants are known as Fort Detroit French. They also came from Sandwich , where colonists had developed farms at what was known as Petite Côte, a bend in the Detroit River. The coast of Lake St. Clair and lots fronting the Puce, Belle, and Ruscom rivers were first surveyed in 1793 by Patrick McKniff. The area was not fully divided into concessions and lots, however, until
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1376-555: The lake was freshwater as opposed to saltwater. These included Otsiketa (sugar or candy), Kandequio or Kandekio (possibly candy), Oiatinatchiketo (probably a form of Otsiketa), and Oiatinonchikebo . Similarly, the Iroquois nations called present-day Lake Huron a term meaning "The Grand Lake of the Sweet Sea" (fresh water as opposed to salt water.) The French expressed this association on their maps as Mer Douce (sweet sea) and
1419-497: The land west of main street, had part of his land laid out into village lots. This includes property that was donated to build two schools and two churches. It is due to his many contributions in the area that Taylor Avenue in Comber still exists today. Other landowners, including John Gracey and William MacDowell, two Scotch-Irish Presbyterians from Comber, Ireland followed suit. It was named after their home town in 1848 or 1850 when it
1462-424: The local Canadian Legion on Notre Dame Street. In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Lakeshore had a population of 40,410 living in 14,386 of its 14,954 total private dwellings, a change of 10.4% from its 2016 population of 36,611 . With a land area of 529 km (204 sq mi), it had a population density of 76.4/km (197.8/sq mi) in 2021. Lakeshore's economy
1505-411: The local Indigenous population. Lake St Clair's location, downstream from the largest freshwater delta in the Great Lakes, has a large effect on its turbidity (clarity). Current water quality is quite good despite past incidents and a history of chemical bio-accumulation. A number of cities source drinking water from or just downstream of the lake and quality is closely monitored. In the early 1970s,
1548-407: The population of Comber was 250 and that of Belle River was 650. Stoney Point ( French : Pointe-aux-Roches ) was settled by 1851 and incorporated as a village in 1881, at which time it had a population of 375. The church of St. Joachim, which became the centre of the village of the same name, was completed in 1882 and enlarged in 1891. It was established to serve the needs of French Catholics in
1591-591: The rear lines of the townships and the Middle Road (today County Road 46) were surveyed by Mahlon Burwell in 1823. Land speculation was endemic in Essex County at that time, as in many other parts of Upper Canada. Much of the present town of Lakeshore was once owned by a single speculator, the fur trader John Askin : by 1797, he held 80 lots, concentrated primarily along the Pêche (Pike) Puce, Belle, and Ruscom rivers. From
1634-653: The settlement by new migrants from the East. Following the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act that abolished slavery in most of the British Empire , the Lakeshore region became one of several end points of the Underground Railroad , an informal network running from the South of the United States to help refugee slaves gain freedom. In 1851, the Refugee Home Society was founded in Detroit by Michigan and Ontario abolitionists. Under
1677-584: The town, many of whom are American visitors. In the past, the community's racing team was named after the URL: www.belleriverbia.com . To this day there continues to be an annual event hosted by The CAN AM Watercross Tour in honour of the sport in conjunction with the town's annual Sunsplash Festival. The Atlas Tube Recreation Centre opened in Lakeshore in September 2014, home to three ice rinks, an indoor walking track, gymnasium, library, and community program rooms. In 2017,
1720-472: The town. It is the site of the 72- turbine Comber Wind Farm . The community's hockey team is the two-time defending Stobbs Division Champions Lakeshore Canadiens , who play in the Provincial Junior Hockey League . The youth sports teams are Belle River Jr. Canadiens (Hockey), Lakeshore Lightning (Girls Hockey), Belle River Braves (Baseball) and Belle River F.C. (Soccer). Belle River is
1763-590: The whirlpool". The Wea derived their name from a Miami cognate: Waayaahtanonki . In the latter part of the 17th century, the Mississauga established a village near the lake. Early French mapmakers had identified the lake by a variety of French and Iroquoian-language names, including Lac des Eaux de Mer [Seawater Lake]; Lac Ganatchio ("kettle," for its shape), in French Lac de la Chaudière . A variety of Native names were associated with sweetness, as
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1806-533: Was erected as a Police village . Belle River, named for the river where it developed, was incorporated as a village on November 26, 1874, but its origins can be traced to the Jesuit Mission of St. Jude. The mission was founded in 1834 to serve the religious needs of the local population of French Catholics. The mission did not receive a resident pastor until 1857, after the Great Western Railway opened
1849-574: Was named in 1679 by French Catholic explorers after Saint Clare of Assisi , on whose feast day they first saw the lake. It is part of the Great Lakes system (although not considered one of the five Great Lakes), and along with the St. Clair River and Detroit River , Lake St. Clair connects Lake Huron (to the north) with Lake Erie (to the south). It has a total surface area of about 430 square miles (1,100 km ) and an average depth of just 11 feet (3.4 m); to ensure an uninterrupted waterway, government agencies in both countries have maintained
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