I was born and raised in Windsor, Ontario, Canada just two miles from Detroit, Michigan, USA by bridge or tunnel.
I loved to watch the Detroit skyline, fishing along the Canadian shore of the Detroit River, admiring the great lake freighters crossing between two great lakes.
The Detroit River flows south from Lake St Clair into Lake Erie and is part of the boundary between Ontario and Michigan.
As part of the St Lawrence Seaway, it is heavily travelled by those HUGE lake freighter vessels, because its really the "strait" between two great lakes.
The name comes from the French word "de troit" for strait or narrows. Then why is it not called the Detroit Strait.
The Detroit River is 52 km long. Is its name a mis-nomer?
2007-10-09
02:29:31
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